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.
We must protect our ability to transact privately online
Without cryptocurrency, a cashless society is a surveillance society
A question we often get when talking to policymakers and congressional staff is whether cryptocurrency is anonymous. And if it is, what can be done to address it? The implication...
Why Private Peer-to-Peer Payments are Essential to an Open Society
Cash is more than a method of payment. It is a fundamental tool for individual privacy and autonomy, and it is necessary for an open society. This paper shows that...
Coin Center Travel Series: Kyoto, Japan
Regulatory reactions following prominent cryptocurrency thefts has created a less-than-friendly environment for innovators.
This is the latest installment of Coin Center's multi-part travel series examining how cryptocurrency is used around the world. As recently as August 2018 some referred to Japan as the “the...