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Paul Atkins’ confirmation hearing was a yawner.
That’s good news for crypto.
Atkins, tapped by President Donald Trump to head the US Securities and Exchange Commission, fielded very few crypto-related questions by the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, Aleks Gilbert reports.
Instead, Democratic senators opted to focus most of their grilling of Atkins, an SEC commissioner during the 2000s, on his actions leading up to the global financial crash of 2008.
This was a…
