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Bitcoin twice topped $86,000 on Tuesday after the CFTC floated crypto rules, then slipped to $85,500, about 2.5% below its $87,722 yearly open. Liquidations shrank to $30 million on the day, so a quiet derivatives market goes into the upcoming consumer price report.
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The crypto super PAC is spending $30 million in Ohio over six weeks, about a quarter of the $120.4 million it and its affiliates reported on September 20. The target is a Senate Banking gavel that Democratic caucus rules do not automatically restore.
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Chase challenged a single misclassified Visa purchase. The network has told payment processors that the code covering e-books and music will not carry meme coin checkouts. The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate the same week.
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A 49-50 cloture vote left the crypto market-structure bill short of the 60 needed to open debate, so the SEC/CFTC jurisdictional split it would have created stays unwritten. Roadmaps dated against it now wait on a motion that failed its first vote.
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The SEC proposed exempt-offering caps, the CFTC threatened to write its own regime, and Trump asked for a Clarity Act he can sign. The US rulebook gets drafted either way.
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