The Senate Banking committee yesterday held a hearing on Digital Currencies and how they should be regulated. Well hear from witnesses from a Financial Services company, the Congressional Research service, and a law professor. This is about an hour and 25 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Last congress, this Committee Held two hearings examining the Digital Currency ecosystem. In those hearings we heard about some of the development that is have occurred within the Digital Currency marketplace since the creation of bitcoin in 2008. The potential benefits of Digital Currencies and the concerns about the value stability, fraud, and illicit uses, market manipulation, and privacy. Since then, facebook announced its intentions to launch a block chain system, lee bra, that will be comprised of financial and nonfinancial members including facebooks digital wallet service. Facebook including how they interact with u. S. And International Regulatory frameworks, the potential benefits an
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There are developments literally within the last few minutes regarding the senate, potential vote on a deal that will hopefully avert the dire tax consequences and spending cuts, rich edson is live for us with everything starting with the Vice President. What is the latest . Rich this from a republican aide. The whole thing is done. Apparently democrats and republicans have signed off on this framework. The issues they had with the sequestered, automatic spending cuts have been resolved according to this aid. While Vice President joe biden is in capitol hill to sell it to Senate Democrats, they have got to sign off on the framework of that deal. This is what we know, adam. It exempts income of 400,000 for individuals, 450,000 for families from a tax increase, Capital Gains and dividends stay the same local straits, amounts above that. Permit the patches the alternative minimum tax. Estate tax goes to 40 of amounts more than 5 million, oneyear extension of Employment Benefits and the do
I wanted to pick up what larry said, which is communications is special and different and part of it is because it promotes an exchange of ideas and conversation. Weve had a spirited conversation here, but we would now like you to join. So for anyone who has a question, if you just identify yourself and also indicate, i want to get as many questions as possible. Please frame whatever youre going to say as a question rather than a speech or commentary or anything else. And we have a couple of people from brookings who will have microphones. And i will identify the people who will be called on and then well proceed from there. So like jeopardy has to be in a form of a question . You bet. Exactly. Whats in the form of a question, stewart. Okay. First question. Youve answered every oh, there we go. Right over here. Thank you very much for this program, and thank you for the comments so far. My question is sorry. I have been in Cyber Security and telecommunications for all of my professiona