FinCEN raises major licensing problem for ICOs in new letter to Congress.
Nearly a year ago Coin Center released a report highlighting a looming ambiguity in FinCEN’s interpretation of federal anti-money-laundering laws: whether or not token sellers are money transmitters who are...
How can cryptocurrency make the internet a more inclusive, liberated space?
Today’s internet is one of online censorship and surveillance. Maybe cryptocurrency can fix that.
Those of us who live in countries that have unrestricted, uncensored access to the internet can consider ourselves lucky (approximately 24% of the world’s population). We access the information or...
Reps. Jared Polis and David Schweikert, co-chairs of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus, along with Rep. Tom Emmer, sent a letter to CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo and SEC Chairman Jay Clayton...
Coin Center at the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee Public Meeting
Executive Director Jerry Brito discussed recent developments in the cryptocurrency regulatory landscape. Jump to Jerry's opening statement.
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The volume on Bitcoin in DC has recently been turned up to eleven. As we saw from this week’s hearing, Federal regulators have their eye on cryptocurrencies. Coin Center has...
Early bird tickets are now available for the Coin Center Annual Dinner.
Blockchain’s night out is back! Get your tickets to our annual dinner—a fundraising gala in support of our policy advocacy mission. Get tickets now! Coin Center Annual Dinner May 14,...
Bloomberg: Regulating Cryptocurrencies
Peter Van Valkenburgh was on Bloomberg's What'd You Miss to break down the recent SEC & CFTC hearing in Congress.
Money Transmission Licensing is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
A federal alternative would give users an option that fits with internet businesses
Last week the Chairmen of the SEC and CFTC co-authored an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that, among other things, called for a “revisit” of the policy thinking behind...
Cryptocurrencies are far from unregulated
This article originally appeared in American Banker.
The chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will testify before Congress Tuesday on one subject and one subject alone: cryptocurrencies. Panic, hype, price swings...
The Need for a Federal Alternative to State Money Transmission Licensing
A plan for policymakers to clear one of the biggest obstacles to financial innovation.
The several states rather than the federal government are the primary regulators of money transmitters. State-by-state money transmission licensing is inefficient because transmitters provide a networked good that inherently crosses...