{"id":180117,"date":"2024-01-09T09:22:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/mysterious-crypto-dark-money-group-ramps-up-lobbying-efforts-ahead-of-2024-election"},"modified":"2024-01-09T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:22:51","slug":"mysterious-crypto-dark-money-group-ramps-up-lobbying-efforts-ahead-of-2024-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/mysterious-crypto-dark-money-group-ramps-up-lobbying-efforts-ahead-of-2024-election","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious crypto \u2018dark money\u2019 group ramps up lobbying efforts ahead of 2024 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-crypto-dark-money-group-ramps-up-lobbying-efforts-ahead-of-2024-election2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new mysterious nonprofit group backed by the crypto industry has set up a mailing address about 100 miles away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/10000613\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>, and is making moves to exert power in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>The Cedar Innovation Foundation, a 501\u00a9(4) that was incorporated in Delaware in April, has launched advertisements against at least one powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/consensus-magazine\/2023\/01\/25\/crypto-policy-regulation-us-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">lawmaker<\/a> who\u2019s up for reelection, and quietly hired a group of strategists to fight on its behalf, according to records uncovered by CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/12\/18\/crypto-pacs-go-into-2024-with-78-million.html\">broader effort<\/a> by the crypto industry to influence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/congress\/\">Congress<\/a> ahead of the 2024 elections and as a variety of crypto-related bills begin to weave their way through Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new mysterious nonprofit group backed by the crypto industry has set up a mailing address about 100 miles away from Washington, D.C., and is making moves to exert power in the nation\u2019s capital. The Cedar Innovation Foundation, a 501\u00a9(4) that was incorporated in Delaware in April, has launched advertisements against at least one powerful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}