Legal
Texas to launch investigation into Twitter 5% bots claim
Twitter has until June 27 to respond to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request for its documents on its user numbers.
Oluwapelumi Adejumo 2 min read
North America Crypto News
Topic stats
Total views Total recorded views across published stories in this archive. Views are not unique reader counts. 21.69M
Coverage footprint Share of stories with a place tag. This topic’s share of CryptoSlate’s published stories in that group. Each story is counted once in the group total. 64.7%
Audience rank This topic’s position among companies or places, ordered by total recorded views across published stories. Topics with equal totals share a rank. #1
Top North America Stories
Legal
Lawmaker behind NY crypto mining bill clarifies it is not a blanket PoW ban
New York Assembly Bill A7389C seeks to introduce a two-year moratorium on the issuance and renewal of PoW crypto mining companies that use fossil fuels.
Mining
Objectors to New York’s mining ban say governments can’t dictate ‘valid use of energy’
Vitalik Buterin and Nic Carter offered opposing opinions to New York's mining ban, saying it's unjustifiable for governments to decide on acceptable uses of electricity.
Latest North America Crypto News & Analysis
Scams
New crypto scam targets tech savvy individuals
The FBI has alerted the public to the prevalence of this “pig slaughtering” scam technique saying it received over 4,300 complaints about it in 2021.
Enterprise
Coinbase un-hires new recruits due to market conditions
Coinbase comes across as 'unprofessional' as it withdraws recent job offers and said it freezes hiring indefinitely.
Adoption
Retirement service provider sues US Labor Department over crypto guidance
ForUsAll says the guidance provided by the regulator was a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
Mining
New York senate passes bill that could ban crypto mining in the state
If signed into law, the bill would impose a three-year moratorium on any new crypto mining project powered by carbon-based energy.
Regulation
New York Attorney General issues new warning to cryptocurrency investors
Attorney General Letitia James issues retail cryptocurrency investors a list of warnings to watch out for.
Politics
This U.S. Senate candidate wants to make Dogecoin legal tender in California
Timothy Ursich has urged the chief executive officer of Tesla, Elon Musk, and Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus, to support his campaign in California.
