'Don't kill crypto' billboard goes up in Alabama in advance of House tackling...

'Don't kill crypto' billboard goes up in Alabama in advance of House tackling...

"We want members of Congress to know that we'll be watching them and that we won't let them hide from their positions on this," said Evan Greer. Digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future has publicly called out Alabama lawmaker Richard Shelby for preventing an amendment clarifying the role of crypto in the infrastructure bill to be addressed in the United States Senate.Fight for the Future has used donations it received in cryptocurrency to place a billboard in Birmingham, Alabama asking lawmakers not to support measures it believes would harm crypto and blockchain firms. Shelby,....


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