{"id":631919,"date":"2026-07-20T00:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/will-the-us-get-clarity-this-week-bitcoins-new-80k-target-hodlers-digest-july-19\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T00:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:52:41","slug":"will-the-us-get-clarity-this-week-bitcoins-new-80k-target-hodlers-digest-july-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/will-the-us-get-clarity-this-week-bitcoins-new-80k-target-hodlers-digest-july-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the US get CLARITY this week? Bitcoin\u2019s new $80K target: Hodler\u2019s Digest, July 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Will<\/p>\n

The fate of the CLARITY Act hinges on Trump\u2019s ethics, so the odds aren\u2019t looking great. Prediction market volumes hit new highs, and more news.<\/p>\n

Polymarket suggests the odds of the CLARITY Act passing this year are just 40%, after a raft of Democratic Senators, including Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen, spoke out against the bill<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A crucial Senate vote could happen as early as this week, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune stating it will definitely be held before Aug. 10.<\/p>\n

Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren is trying to spoil the vote <\/a>by highlighting how much money President Trump has extracted from the industry. She demanded Trump voluntarily release his crypto earnings for this year, after his 2025 disclosure, showed he earned more than a billion dollars from crypto last year. The controversy means that Senate Democrats are unlikely to support the bill without a provision banning elected officials promoting or issuing cryptocurrency. <\/p>\n

Summer Mersinger, the CEO of the Blockchain Association and a former commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said: \u201cEthics is the big elephant in the room.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: <\/em>Polymarket<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fate of the CLARITY Act hinges on Trump\u2019s ethics, so the odds aren\u2019t looking great. Prediction market volumes hit new highs, and more news. Polymarket suggests the odds of the CLARITY Act passing this year are just 40%, after a raft of Democratic Senators, including Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen, spoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-631919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}