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The Protocol: Bitcoin Gets Political as U.S. Government Ponders Airdrops

In this week’s issue of CoinDesk’s newsletter on blockchain tech, we examine U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis’s call for a national “Bitcoin Strategic Reserve.” We’ve also got photos from the Bitcoin Nashville conference, where it seemed like nearly everyone was talking about staple-gunning layer-2 networks onto the original blockchain.Read MoreCoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data[#item_full_content]

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