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Raising funds for climate change with digital assets at COP28

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Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. UN Climate Change conferences (or COPs) is an annual event that brings world countries together to address the challenges and needs of climate change.  You might also like: Creating a resilient and sustainable blockchain-as-a-service for all COP 28 occurs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 30 November until 12 December 2023. In a stark warning ahead of COP28, the Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Jagan Chapagain, highlighted that climate change causes almost every humanitarian disaster the world faces: “Whether it’s a hunger crisis and people forced to move because of drought, a health emergency exacerbated by heat, killer flooding caused by exceptional rain, disputes over diminishing tracts of arable land or an uptick in malaria deaths due to warmer tem...

State caps or federal regulation: What's next for political crypto donations

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The industry isn’t having the best of its moments now, but the topic of campaign donations in crypto remains a relatively safe space for innovation. On Jan. 25, the Committee on Elections introduced a bill to the Kansas House of Representatives aimed at capping political donation s via crypto at $100. Regardless of the success of this legislative initiative, the state of Kanzas won’t be the first jurisdiction to target anonymous donation s. From authoritarian nations like Russia or China to electoral democracies like Ireland or Canada, one can find recent attempts to ban crypto donation s to politicians all around the globe.  The opponents of crypto may have a strong point — it’s hard to imagine a healthy democracy where large sums of untraceable money are flowing between candidates. But the problem of “dark money” and tools to dispense it around the political system existed way before pseudonymous crypto assets arrived. The industry isn’t having the best of its moments now, but ...