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North Carolina lawmakers have introduced twin bills in the House and Senate which could see up to 5% of crypto assets allocated to state retirement funds.

This week, four different states introduced crypto-related bills, bringing the number of US states to introduce such legislation up to nine in February alone.

The bill limits investments to Bitcoin exchange-traded products only but includes various state funds such as pensions and insurance.

The Bitcoiners will focus on “overlooked” communities in western North Carolina that have received little state or federal support and remain cut off from life-saving supplies.

A new law in North Carolina seeks to ban CBDCs in the state, but there are questions about whether the new legislation is even legal. 

A North Carolina Senate veto-busting vote saw 12 Democratic Party senators who initially voted for the bill to ban a CBDC switch to backing Governor Roy Cooper’s veto.

The bill received strong support in the General Assembly. Now, the state Senate will consider overturning the veto.

Governor Roy Cooper was slammed for not putting “partisan politics aside” to support a law that would benefit all North Carolina residents.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper will now either sign or veto the law that bars the state’s government from accepting a Federal Reserve CBDC, potentially joining Louisiana.

Oregon joins five other states that have delicensed Binance.US after former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to felony charges.

The study would examine the possible impact of holding crypto and how the state would custody digital currency.

Argentina’s central bank banned payment providers from offering crypto transactions, adding that it intends to reduce the country’s payment-system exposure to digital assets.

The latest version of the legislation included limiting the Federal Reserve from using the U.S. state as a potential testing ground for its own CBDC pilot.

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