An Arizona Lawmaker is Trying to Ban Blockchain Gun Tracking
An Arizona lawmaker has proposed banning the use of blockchain to track firearms. House Bill 2216, first proposed on 17th January, would make it a felony "to require a person to use or be subject to" firearm tracking, explicitly identifying blockchain tech as a platform for doing so. The bill was submitted by Representative Paul Boyer and has steadily advanced through the legislature since its introduction. While it may sound unusual, the concept has been explored in the past by those working with the tech, perhaps most notably by way of the so-called "Glockchain"....
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An effort by Arizona lawmakers to prohibit the tracking of guns using blockchain technology has now progressed to the Senate. As CoinDesk reported earlier this month, a proposed new bill would prevent the use distributed ledgers in firearm tracking, with the exception of law-enforcement applications. The concept, put forward by technologists in the blockchain space, is that such a system could create an immutable history of transactions that records every time a gun is fired, for example. The proposed bill, HB 2216, has now cleared the Arizona House of Representatives by a 34-25 vote, with....
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A Korean lawmaker, Lee Kwang-jae, has said he will start accepting cryptocurrency donations sometime in mid-January of 2022. According to the lawmaker, anyone that wishes to sponsor his campaign will be able to do so by directly transferring funds to his....