Law Decoded: China FUD and false dichotomies, Sept. 20–27

Cointelegraph

Published Sep 27, 2021 03:30PM ET

Updated Sep 27, 2021 05:00PM ET

In the wake of yet another iteration of China’s enduring crackdown on cryptocurrency, a particularly influential narrative on Crypto Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) suggests that by banning Bitcoin (BTC), China has definitively put itself on the dark side of the struggle, while the collective West must now resolutely throw its weight on the opposite side by embracing crypto.

Granted, this framework for thinking about the relationship between political power and decentralized finance is appealing for crypto allies. Yet the news coming out of the United States gives few reasons to believe that policymakers there see the situation this way.

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