This week’s EOS and Sia settlements with the SEC reinforce Coin Center’s 2016 policy recommendations.

Block.one has settled and is paying a fine for doing a pre-sale of EOS as ERC20 tokens, and Nebulous has settled and is paying a fine for selling Sianotes, a...

A national alternative to onerous state-by-state regulation of cryptocurrency intermediaries

How Congress could give businesses a streamlined path to serving all US customers

Increasingly, policymakers on Capitol Hill and at federal regulatory agencies are asking us whether Congress should develop a comprehensive national regime to regulate cryptocurrencies. We have always and will always...

Don’t make these five common mistakes about blockchains and cryptocurrency.

Breaking down misconceptions about these technologies

1. There is no such thing as “the blockchain.” There isn’t just one blockchain out there. Each cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin or Ethereum) has its own unique blockchain that lists the...

There is hidden tax guidance between the lines of recent IRS educational letters to cryptocurrency users.

On July 26, the IRS announced it was sending “educational” letters to more than 10,000 taxpayers that the agency suspects “failed to report income and pay the resulting tax from...

Coin Center travel series: Mexico City, Mexico

Cryptocurrency stands at a crossroads in a country where financial services could be improved

This is the final installment of Coin Center's multi-part travel series examining how cryptocurrency is used around the world. The final stop on the Coin Center travel series was one of...

The Case for Electronic Cash in an Open and Free Society

Jerry Brito lays out why society must embrace the privacy cryptocurrencies offer and what we could give up in a world without them.  Learn more about this conversation.

FOIA documents reveal cryptocurrency guidance has not been a priority for the IRS

The agency’s self-imposed target date for guidance passed last week without action, now Congress is stepping in

On May 16th, in response to a letter from 21 members of Congress, IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig wrote, “I share your belief that taxpayers deserve clarity on basic issues...

The differences between Bitcoin and Libra should matter to policymakers

The two have different design goals, work in different ways, and raise different regulatory questions.

Recently Congress has taken a strong interest in the newly announced Libra digital currency. We have been getting many questions from policymakers and the media about how Libra (as described...

Breaking down the consumer benefits of cryptocurrencies

Internet services that use this technology for better consumer autonomy and privacy are already being built

In addition to their widely touted commercial use-cases, cryptocurrency and open blockchain technologies can significantly empower and improve the welfare of individual consumers. Because they do not offer the same...

Cross-global panel on Government and Privacy

Coin Center representatives at cryptocurrency conferences on different sides of the world come together for a panel on our message to policymakers on privacy.

Our experts shared stages from simultaneous cryptocurrency conferences on different sides of the world. They came together for a conversation about our message to policymakers on privacy.