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Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policyconcerned.tech/
100 sats \ 5 comments \ @cryptocoin 1 Jun 2022 bitcoin
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryptocoin OP 1 Jun 2022
Here's an article, on Financial Times, about this campaign:
Tech experts urge Washington to resist crypto industry’s influence | Financial Times #33317 https://www.ft.com/content/f4b2fa1a-4057-4b10-9f3b-efa57e6bcbac https://archive.ph/tUNSA
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin OP 1 Jun 2022
PS -- They seem to have sent out tons of press releases about this, given the wide coverage of such a benign piece of writing. If you're a journalist covering this, you really ought to put it in context. My DMs are open; I'm happy to chat.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryptocoin OP 1 Jun 2022
The PDF for the Letter:
https://concerned.tech/letter-congressional.pdf
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin OP 1 Jun 2022
There have been a number of responses to the letter, such as this one by Preston Byrne:
Debunking the Crypto Critics Letter | Preston Byrne #33400 https://prestonbyrne.com/2022/06/01/debunking-the-crypto-critics-letter
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin OP 1 Jun 2022
Who signed it?
The usual suspects:
  • Sal Bayat
  • Tim Bray
  • Grady Booch, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, IBM Fellow
  • Brennan Carley, Proton Advisors
  • Cory Doctorow
  • Stephen Diehl
  • David Gerard
  • Jürgen Geuter, ART+COM
  • Alan Graham, OCL
  • Kelsey Hightower
  • Geoffrey Huntley, GitPod
  • Miguel de Icaza
  • Patrick McConnell, Macquarie University
  • Luke Plant, Django Software Foundation
  • Rufus Pollock, LifeItself Labs
  • Matt Ranger
  • Jorge Stolfi, University of Campinas
  • Steve Song, Network Startup Resource Center
  • Bruce Schneier
  • Dave Troy, 410 Labs Inc.
  • Darren W. Tseng
  • Štefan Urbánek, Open Knowledge Foundation
  • Nicholas Weaver, International Computer Science Institute
  • Adam Wespiser, SimSpace Corporation
  • Molly White
  • Jamie Zawinski, Netscape Developer
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