A PDF version of this comment is available here. October 17, 2025 TREAS-DO-2025-0070-0001 To whom it may concern: Coin Center is an independent nonprofit research and advocacy center focused on...
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Senate Finance Committee: Examining the Taxation of Digital Assets
Policy Director Jason Somensatto testified on the tax issues facing cryptocurrency users. Watch video of the hearing here. Jason's testimony is available here.
Digital Identity is broken. The tech to fix it is ready. Here’s how the government can help.
We need open privacy-protecting standards and safe harbors for those who dream of fixing Digital ID
For decades, America has relied on an identity verification system that is costly, intrusive, and ineffective. It fails to stop serious crime, while burdening ordinary people with endless paperwork and...
Tear Down this Walled Garden: American Values and Digital Identity
A blueprint for American leadership in digital identity built on open standards, federated trust, personal privacy, and individual freedom.
Financial institutions today are burdened by identity verification frameworks that are simultaneously costly, privacy-invasive, and ineffective at deterring illicit finance. Despite vast surveillance systems built on the foundation of the...
Six months of crypto policy: The good, the bad, and the lingering questions
An update and a half-year scorecard
We’re six months into the new administration and the 119th Congress. So much has happened that it’s difficult to keep it all straight. For clarity, here are the big news...
Trump’s Big Crypto Report Is Coming. It Should Address Block Rewards and Privacy.
The upcoming Executive Order report is a chance to fix broken tax treatment of block rewards and walk back dangerous surveillance proposals.
President Trump’s Executive Order on digital assets (EO 14178) directed the agency heads sitting on the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets to produce a report reevaluating outdated or...
Coin Center director of policy Jason Somensatto testified on fair tax treatment for block rewards and de minimis crypto transactions. Hearing information is available here. Jason's testimony is available here....
It’s time to pass the CLARITY Act
It brings well scoped market structure regulation and certainty for blockchain developers.
Coin Center supports the passage of the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act of 2025 and will continue engagement with Congress to ensure that final market structure legislation upholds Coin...
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