Bitcoin: Arizona To Become First US State To Vote On Strategic Reserve Bill
Arizona has advanced Senate Bill 1025 — also known as the “Arizona Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) Act” — out of committee, positioning it to become the first US state to vote on legislation that would authorize investing state funds in Bitcoin. Dennis Porter, CEO and founder of the advocacy group Satoshi Act Fund, broke the […]
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Big if true. Did Arizona one-up every other Bitcoiner state? A bill that seeks to make Bitcoin legal tender in the state is circulating through Twitter and Telegram groups. Doubt is still in the air, and there’s no official confirmation, but the document seems to exist. And, even though it’s just a bill and there’s […]
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....
Senator Wendy Rogers introduced a bill to make bitcoin a lawful currency in the U.S. state of Arizona.
Senator Wendy Rogers is setting her sights to turn Arizona into the most crypto-friendly state in the United States, as she submits two more crypto bills on Tuesday. This isn’t the first crypto-related proposal to increase crypto’s utility incrementally in the Grand Canyon state. Last Friday, Rogers already submitted a bill aiming to make bitcoin […]
California is getting closer to outright legalizing Bitcoin in the state with the proposed bill clearing a committee vote yesterday. Back in September of last year, California passed AB 786, a piece of legislation that makes it easier doing in-state business for Bitcoin startups. This time, a bill dubbed as AB-129 Lawful Money, which would legalize cryptocurrencies in the state, passed the Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee yesterday by a 7-1 vote. Previously, the bill was unanimously approved in the California Assembly by a 75 to 0 vote. The next step for the bill will be....