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Tether's associated Super PAC's first advertising expenditure went to Tether's U.S. CEO co-founded company, raising questions about conflicts of interest

According to CoinDesk, documents submitted to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by the Super Political Action Committee (Super PAC) Fellowship, which is associated with Tether, show that its first expenditure of $300,000 went to Nxum Group, a company co-founded by Tether's U.S. CEO, former Trump administration crypto advisor Bo Hines, along with his father Todd Hines and third-party partners.This expenditure was used to purchase campaign advertisements for Georgia Republican House candidate Clay Fuller, coinciding with Fuller winning a special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene as a congressman. Notably, Fellowship did not publicly announce this expenditure nor include Fuller in its public endorsement list.On April 1 of this year, Fellowship appointed Jesse Spiro, Tether's U.S. Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, as the committee chair, officially reactivating its presence in the political arena. When the committee was announced last year, it had received a total funding commitment of $100 million, but its FEC disclosure documents currently show a zero account balance, and related donations have not been made public. Tether International responded that there is no association or regulatory relationship with Fellowship PAC, while Tether U.S. declined to comment.In terms of conflicts of interest, Michael Beckel from the political reform organization Issue One stated that it is not illegal for Super PACs to pay founder-associated companies under U.S. campaign finance rules, provided that services are genuinely rendered and rates are in line with market prices. Fellowship's CFO Mitchell Nobel currently works at Cantor Fitzgerald, which manages Tether's global business assets, and its former chairman is current Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.Currently, Fellowship's expenditure scale is still vastly different from that of the leading crypto industry Super PAC Fairshake. Fairshake has invested millions in several primary elections, while the candidates currently supported by Fellowship are almost all deep-red state Republicans.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China: Explore innovative businesses such as "computing power banks" and "computing power supermarkets" to support small and medium-sized enterprises in depositing idle computing power resources

According to a report by Jinshi Data, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued a notice on launching a special action to empower the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through inclusive computing power, mentioning the innovative service model of computing power.Improve the SME section of the China Computing Power Platform, the computing resource docking section of the China SME Service Network, and the national computing internet service node section (hereinafter collectively referred to as the SME platform section), to promote the precise matching of SME demand and computing resource supply, and implement flexible payment models such as "card time," "calculated time," and Token billing.Explore innovative businesses such as "computing power banks" and "computing power supermarkets," supporting SMEs to deposit idle computing resources and achieve flexible use through cross-regional and cross-cycle scheduling. Implement an artificial intelligence SME entrepreneurship support plan, encouraging local relevant departments to subsidize "computing power vouchers," "storage vouchers," and "transportation vouchers" to SMEs that meet industrial orientation through the SME platform section, simplifying the acquisition and usage process.
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