Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy concerned.tech/

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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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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.

https://twitter.com/rettlerb/status/1532023601183981568

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The PDF for the Letter:

https://concerned.tech/letter-congressional.pdf

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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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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