Laws move slower than markets. But they hit harder. This is issue #70 of The Bitcoin Act — your Tuesday and Sunday briefing on the legal and regulatory moves that actually shape Bitcoin.

Now for today’s top stories:

🏛️ CLARITY vote slips to September
Thune filed cloture, the motion to end debate, setting a September 15 procedural vote needing 60 of 100 senators.

🎣 Scammers impersonate regulators
After MiCA licensing took effect, fraudsters posing as France's markets regulator and exchanges are telling users to move funds to fake sites.

🇷🇺 Putin caps retail Bitcoin buying
A new law limits Russian retail buyers to 300,000 rubles, about $3,700, per intermediary each year.

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Sen. John Thune (Senate Majority Leader, R-SD) confirmed the Senate will not vote on the CLARITY Act until September, and has filed cloture to set a procedural vote for September 15.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY, chair, Senate Banking Digital Assets Subcommittee) said she is frustrated by the delay but will keep pushing the CLARITY Act, warning the status quo fails everyone.

Eleanor Terrett (journalist, co-founder, Crypto in America) reported that queuing a September vote signals Republican leadership will prioritize the CLARITY Act, though negotiators still lack the votes to pass it.

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) claimed eleven months of Republican and Democratic negotiations over the CLARITY Act have officially ended, leaving nothing left to resolve before the September cloture vote.

Ido Ben-Natan (co-founder and CEO, Blockaid) argues set-and-forget self-custody no longer works: holders must either stay permanently paranoid about evolving threats or outsource that judgment to a professional custodian.

Michael Saylor (executive chairman, Strategy) argues Bitcoin does not need the CLARITY Act to keep advancing, though America itself needs clear rules governing the wider crypto assets market.

The Central Bank of Brazil (Brazil's monetary authority) ruled that from January 2027 exchanges must hold transfers above $10,000 to self-custody wallets or foreign providers for up to 24 hours.

L0la L33tz (independent journalist, The Rage) warned Coldcard theft victims against Thomas Braziel, a claims broker soliciting them, citing the 2024 Delaware ruling that removed him as a court-appointed receiver.

Ben Zhou (co-founder and CEO, Bybit) said the exchange sued North Korea and the Lazarus Group over last year's $1.5 billion theft, winning an injunction, a court order freezing assets.

Stéphane Pontoizeau (executive director, France's Autorité des Marchés Financiers) warned scammers are impersonating regulators and exchanges to redirect users' funds after MiCA, the EU's crypto licensing regime, took effect.

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🇷🇺 300,000 rubles – Putin signed a law capping Russian retail buyers at 300,000 rubles, about $3,700, per intermediary each year. Payments in Bitcoin stay banned. The Block

🇮🇷 $3 million – The Treasury tracked $3 million moving between the exchange Shelbit and Iran's Revolutionary Guard, then blacklisted the platform. The Block

🇱🇺 Bill 8722 – Luxembourg's new anti-fraud law, Bill 8722, pulls cryptocurrency exchanges into the country's real-time fraud alert system alongside banks. CryptoBriefing

🇷🇺 More than 20 – Russian security agents arrested more than 20 people for running unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange shops in central Moscow. Coindesk

📱 Zero – Thérèse Coffey, former UK deputy prime minister and sitting Conservative peer, had zero two-factor authentication when scammers hijacked her account for a cryptocurrency scam. Telegraph

🇺🇸 Aug 10, 2026 — Senate August recess begins, Washington — No CLARITY Act floor vote happens this week or next. Leadership pushed it after the Senate's return on Sept 14. Read it as a delay, not a defeat.

🇬🇧 Aug 10, 2026 — FCA consultation CP26/19 closes, United Kingdom — Last day to comment on extending the Financial Conduct Authority's penalty framework to the cryptoasset market abuse regime, meaning insider dealing and price manipulation.

🇵🇾 Aug 12–13, 2026 — Accelerating Bitcoin 2026, Paseo La Galería, Asunción, Paraguay — Paraguay's leading Bitcoin-only conference, with workshops on payments, mining, security and self-custody. Speakers include OCEAN's Ignacio Pauls and HIVE Digital chief executive Aydin Kilic.

🇮🇩 Aug 12–13, 2026 — Indonesia Blockchain Week Summit, Jakarta Convention Center — Two days, 75-plus speakers, policymakers included. Not Bitcoin-focused, but it is where Southeast Asian rules on exchanges and tokenisation get previewed.

🇧🇷 Aug 12–13, 2026 — Blockchain.RIO, Rio de Janeiro — Institutional gathering of Latin American regulators, banks and infrastructure firms, including a Financial Infrastructure Forum on how money moves across the region.

🇮🇳 Through Aug 13, 2026 — Monsoon Session ends, Indian Parliament, New Delhi — Final sitting day of a session running since July 20, with the standing committee's virtual digital asset framework report under live discussion.

🇻🇳 Aug 14–15, 2026 — Conviction 2026, Thiskyhall Sala Convention Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — Vietnam's national digital asset forum, hosted by Ninety Eight and recognised by the city's People's Committee, gathering policymakers, banks and institutions. Not Bitcoin-specific. 

🇪🇺 Open now — European Commission public consultation on the MiCA review, Brussels — Anyone can file comments on the EU's crypto rulebook. Issues on the table: non-EU stablecoin issuers, staking, tokenised deposits and scope.

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