Yaël Ossowski

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  • Crypto ‘Wrench Attack” Robberies, Consumer Security & Trump’s Bitcoin policy | Yael Ossowski on CNN

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    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…

  • The government’s weak case to “break off” Instagram

    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…

  • Regulators should champion FinTech innovations for retirement investing

    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…

  • The FTC’s shell game on social media ‘monopolies’

    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…

  • Trust Revolution Podcast

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    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,…

  • Are the U.S. and Europe Digital Allies or Adversaries?

    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,…

  • Inside Vienna’s small, persistent crypto community

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    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…

  • The Powerful Fannie Mae Policy Change to Unlock Bitcoin-Based Mortgages

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    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…

  • FTC v. Meta Is All About Politics, Not Antitrust Law

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    Meta had its first day in court against the Federal Trade Commission in what will be the second-largest antitrust trial of the decade. At stake is Meta’s ownership of both Instagram and WhatsApp, and the viability of Mark Zuckerberg’s company as traditional social media enters the era of AI. Say what you will about the political influence…

  • Trump Is Right to Hammer Environmental Lawfare

    President Donald Trump’s critics are right about one thing: The first few months of his second term have been a reckoning. Starting with the federal government’s pursuit of law firms and organizations that committed lawfare against the president to hobble his political comeback, Trump has now supercharged executive authority to stop the flood of ideologically based lawsuits targeting America’s energy providers. …