A Human Rights Activist’s Response to Bitcoin Critics
The Chief Strategy Officer for the Human Rights Foundation sees cryptocurrency as an essential tool for preserving freedom in a connected world.
The “Expert Views” series of publications allows legal and technical practitioners in the cryptocurrency space to share their insight and opinions on cutting edge policy questions. The views expressed here...
We’re often asked whether that policy, articulated mid-last year by Director of the Division of Corporation Finance William Hinman, truly represents the policy of the Commission or whether it’s just the...
The Human Rights Foundation wants to help activists and journalists use Bitcoin to stay private.
Though often mischaracterized as “anonymous,” Bitcoin transactions do offer a much higher level of privacy for savvy users than traditional internet payment systems. Activists and journalists may want to add...
The Constitution Protects Software Developers and Users from Surveillance Overreach
An aggressive attempt to regulate software developers and individual users would violate our privacy and speech rights
Today we are publishing a comprehensive report on constitutional law and anonymous cryptocurrencies—what we call electronic cash—and decentralized exchange software. As Jerry argued in our report from last month, electronic...
Electronic Cash, Decentralized Exchange, and the Constitution
An extension of the Bank Secrecy Act to software developers and individual users would be unconstitutional.
Regulators, law enforcement, and the general public have come to expect that cryptocurrency transactions will leave a public record on a blockchain, and that most cryptocurrency exchanges will take place...
Coin Center Travel Series: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
An overbroad classification of all cryptocurrency tokens as securities holds innovators back.
This is the latest installment of Coin Center's multi-part travel series examining how cryptocurrency is used around the world. Strolling through the bookstore one day in the busy, up-market Pavilion mall...
SEC and CFTC Commissioners to headline Coin Center Annual Dinner.
We are excited to announce that SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce and CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz will be the evening’s speakers during the Coin Center Annual Dinner! Join us for a...
Coin Center files comment in CFTC proceeding on Ethereum
A few months ago LabCFTC, the division of the agency dealing with innovative financial products, put out a request for information to better understand the Ethereum network and ecosystem that...
How the CFTC can take a pro-innovation posture while maintaining orderly markets
A CFTC Commissioner responds to Coin Center’s thinking on publishing code and regulation
This past fall, I made a speech in Dubai to highlight what I believe will be a fundamental challenge for financial regulators in the coming years: how do regulators apply...
A response to the agency's request for more information about Ether, the Ethereum network, and the ecosystem that has developed around it
A direct download of this comment is available here.