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Garlinghouse: SEC Official Received Millions From Vested Interests Tradfi Heavyweight Crypto Exchange EDX Launches Peter Schiff on USD Decline Week in Review

Garlinghouse: SEC Official Received 'Millions' From Vested Interests, Tradfi Heavyweight Crypto Exchange EDX Launches, Peter Schiff on USD Decline — Week in Review

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse recently asserted that former SEC Division of Corporation Finance Director William Hinman “received millions of dollars of payments from his law firm” which had a vested interest in a well-known 2018 speech given by the then SEC official. In other news, crypto exchange EDX has launched backed by Charles Schwab, Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets, Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, and Virtu Financial, featuring four cryptocurrencies. This and more in the latest Bitcoin.com News Week in Review.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse: Former SEC Official William Hinman Received 'Millions of Dollars' From Law Firms With a 'Vested Interest' in His Speech

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse: Former SEC Official William Hinman Received ‘Millions of Dollars’ From Law Firms With a ‘Vested Interest’ in His Speech

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has blasted the enforcement approach of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after the release of the Hinman docs, which contain internal discussions that the institution had before the now famous 2018 speech offered by former SEC Division of Corporation Finance Director William Hinman. Garlinghouse stated that while he was a public servant, Hinman “received millions of dollars of payments from his law firm,” part of an alliance with a vested interest in his speech.

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Crypto Exchange Backed by Fidelity, Schwab, Citadel Launches With Trading of 4 Cryptocurrencies

Crypto Exchange Backed by Fidelity, Schwab, Citadel Launches With Trading of 4 Cryptocurrencies

The cryptocurrency exchange backed by Charles Schwab, Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets, Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, and Virtu Financial has launched and completed a new funding round. The platform offers the trading of four cryptocurrencies.

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Valkyrie Funds Joins Race for SEC Approval as It Files Application for Spot Bitcoin ETF

On Wednesday, Valkyrie Funds, a Tennessee-based asset manager offering a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF), a defi fund, and a bitcoin mining industry ETF, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the launch of a spot bitcoin ETF.

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Economist Peter Schiff: US Dollar Decline Will Be 'Far Greater' Than Yellen Expects — Fed Chair Powell 'Clearly Worried' About Financial Crisis

Economist Peter Schiff: US Dollar Decline Will Be ‘Far Greater’ Than Yellen Warns — Fed Chair Powell ‘Clearly Worried’ About Financial Crisis

Economist Peter Schiff says the U.S. dollar decline will be “far greater” than what Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned. “This portends a significant decline in our standard of living,” he cautioned. Furthermore, the economist stressed that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell “is clearly worried about the evolving financial crisis, but doesn’t want to spook markets.”

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