A bill would put the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in charge. Some consumer advocates back the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“It’s hard to find a clear reason to have [a CBDC], and, in fact, there are a lot of reasons not to,” says the Roosevelt Institute’s Chris Hughes.

The Securities and Exchange Commission isn’t the only agency that could do it.

London, already a major foreign exchange market, wants to be the same for crypto.

Fidelity Investments says it will allow employers to add bitcoin to retirement portfolios, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren is among those critical of the decision.

And companies may have good reasons not to.

The cryptocurrencies — pegged to “real” currencies that aren’t supposed to fluctuate in value — are the bedrock of the crypto economy.

A conversation with Rebecca Jennings of Vox on the growing new industry that teaches children about cryptocurrency, NFTs and Web3.

Usually the gas is burned off at the well. Environmentalists say using it for mining incentivizes more drilling.

SEC delays decision on allowing exchange-traded funds. It has to make big calls on digital currencies, whether it wants to or not.