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Letitia James is once again ramping up the lawfare machine from her perch as New York Attorney General. This time, rather than pursuing presidential candidates or thwarting DOGE cuts to the bureaucracy, she’s directing legal firepower at fraudsters using peer-to-peer finance apps, specifically Zelle. Oddly, it’s not the well-documented networks of scammers and fraudsters using finance apps to lure…
Walk into a few downtown bodegas or corner stores in a moderately sized American town, and you’ll likely find at least one selling some kind of cannabis product. Whether it’s CBD, Delta-8, HHC, or another synthetic derived from the cannabis plant, the simple truth is that these products are now openly bought, traded, and sold…
The Scandinavian state has been a stalwart supporter of CSAM scanning and chat control. Now, they hold the keys to make it a reality. To break encryption, or not to break encryption, that is the question. Across the continent, tech-native Europeans are spinning up new LLMs and AI chatbots on their phones and computers and…
The Comer investigation underscores why we should consider federal lawfare liability reforms that would put most of these frivolous cases to rest. President Trump’s push to boost energy affordability by slashing green regulations and climate lawfare has been a powerful yet undercovered plank of his second term. Drastically changing course from the energy-restrictive policies of…
Nudged within the “One Big Beautiful Bill” is a small tax provision that may only apply to a small number of consumers, but it could have outlasting positive impacts on how healthcare services are delivered to American patients. Beginning in 2026, American patients who engage the services of a doctor at a direct primary care…
Yaël Ossowski from the Bitcoin Policy Institute discusses everything fake in modern society while exploring Bank Secrecy Act reform and negative versus positive rights in Bitcoin policy. The conversation covers Section 230 for energy policy, Fed independence concerns amid Treasury merger speculation, and Trump administration plans. Topics include weaponized financial surveillance, Bitcoin developer protection, de…
The United States Congress passed the country’s first major standalone crypto bill. The landmark vote signals a sea change in the U.S. stance toward these digital currencies. The House approved the GENIUS Bill with a 308-122 vote with significant bipartisan support, adopting regulations for a type of cryptocurrency known as stablecoins that many believe will…
In this episode, Demian Schatt welcomes back Yaël Ossowski of the Consumer Choice Center and Bitcoin Policy Institute to break down the growing fight over AI regulation in the U.S. Yaël explains why a federal moratorium on state-level AI laws was proposed, how it fell out of Trump’s tech bill, and what it means for…
Consumer Choice Center Deputy Director Yaël Ossowski was interviewed on DC News Now’s Tech Talk give advice on password security, passkeys, two-factor authentication, and explain why consumers should start anonymizing their emails and randomly generating their passwords for max security. July 11, 2025 https://www.dcnewsnow.com/tech-talk/tech-talk-checking-in-on-how-healthy-your-passwords-are/
Consumer Choice Center Deputy Director and Bitcoin Policy Institute Fellow Yaël Ossowski presents the”Congressional Guide to Bitcoin” at the 2025 Bitcoin Policy Summit. This includes reforms for De Minimis Taxation Exemptions, reforms of the Bank Secrecy Act, and changes to the Fannie Mae Selling Guide to allow Bitcoin and its crypto-offspring to be used as…
Nearly thirty years ago, an obscure liability section of law aimed at restricting online porn powered a revolution for the Internet and online commerce. Now, in the age of the AI boom and a global resource crunch, we need the same principle put to use for American energy. Section 230, tucked within the 1996 Communications Decency Act, exempted online…
Every industry in the world is scrambling to put artificial intelligence tools to creative use, and America’s robust sector of lawyers, law firms, and jurists is no exception. Judges have hilariously busted lawyers for using ChatGPT to hallucinate court citations in briefs, and AI-generated attorneys have pleaded for their clients and faced ridicule online. There have been AI videos created using…
Yaël Ossowski of the Consumer Choice Center and Bitcoin Policy Institute joined CNN to reflect on recent crypto-related crimes that threaten consumer privacy, the federal bank secrecy laws that make purchasing Bitcoin and crypto assets riskier and make our data vulnerable, and the prospects for consumers to benefit from positive reforms from the Trump Administration…
For the last five weeks, an agency of the Federal government has attempted to convince a judge that Meta should be forcibly broken up for parts. FTC v. Meta is nearing closing statements and could be decided in the weeks to come. Social media influencers, small businesses advertisers, and roaming bands of phone scrollers have their…
Like many people my age, I have serious doubts about the long-term viability of Social Security and whether or not I’ll ever get a check once I hang up the proverbial hard hat. I have a ways to go, but I do think about it often. Time flies. Government projections aside, the only reasonable path…
In Washington, D.C. this week, government lawyers wrapped up their antitrust lawsuit arguing that Instagram should be broken off from its parent company. The same for WhatsApp. The company Meta, formerly Facebook, has been in a long protracted legal battle over its decade-old acquisitions of the photo sharing app Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp. While those acquisitions…
S01E05 Yaël Ossowski by Shawn Yeager The balance of power between individuals and institutions is shifting. Read on Substack In this episode of Trust Revolution, Shawn welcomes Yaël Ossowski, a consumer advocate and Bitcoin policy expert, for a candid discussion on the shifting balance of power between individuals and institutions. Yaël shares his global perspective,…
As the global economy pivots toward digital innovation and AI supremacy, tensions are mounting not just between rivals like the U.S. and China, but also among traditional allies. In a panel discussion hosted by The National Interest on May 8, policy experts unpacked both the growing friction and potential cooperation between the United States, the United Kingdom,…
Journalist Janani Janarthanan interviewed me on broader Bitcoin adoption in Vienna, Austria, and the European Union. Some choice quotes: “At least millennials and maybe zoomers — those who straddle the timeline between Gen Z and Millennials— are aware of different digital assets and use the ecosystem in some way,” according to Yaël Ossowski, a fellow…
A key Fannie Mae policy change could unlock bitcoin-based mortgages and expand financial access for millions of Americans. For those of us who save in bitcoin, use it on a daily basis, and are hopeful about its future, we recognize more than most the regulatory barriers and societal taboos that limit how we are able…