CGTN The Heat: The phenomenon of Bitcoin
Peter Van Valkenburgh engaged with cryptocurrency skeptics on a news debate show.
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Coin Center statement on Long Island money laundering arrest.
All we have to go on so far is the unsealed indictment, which does not mention cryptocurrencies, and the statements of the prosecutor. Based on what we know so far...
How Bitcoin could drive the clean energy revolution.
The system’s economic incentives favor clean, renewable, energy.
Bitcoin’s recent incredible price increases have come along with equally sensational headlines about its energy usage. There are plenty of reasonable voices out there; I particularly recommend Ars Technica and...
Coin Center in the news: Bitcoin futures, Retail investors, CryptoKitties, and more.
Most of our time is spent engaging with policymakers in D.C. and around the country. However, our experts are often called upon to help the media get a handle on...
Munchee Settlement Puts the Utility Token Argument to the Test
Coin Center’s analysis of the recent SEC enforcement action against an ICO found to be in violation of securities law.
The SEC’s settlement with Munchee is an important milestone in the young history of token law, because it begins to challenge the naive version of the utility token argument and...
Congress’s anti-money laundering bill (S. 1241): Coin Center is on it
An update on our work to minimize the confusion that this redundant bill could cause.
The “Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017,” also known as S. 1241, has been getting a fair amount of attention since we first wrote about it...
Good news: Ethereum’s CryptoKitties are probably not securities.
Ethereum just got overrun with cats; the cats are literally slowing down the network with their feline machinations, their idiosyncratic personalities, and yes, their breeding… lots of cat breeding… on...
Coin Center statement on IRS Coinbase order.
While the court granted a narrowed version of the IRS’s original request for Coinbase customer data, we remain deeply unsatisfied with the lack of justification provided by the IRS. Without...
Video of the Rules Committee meeting is below and you can watch Rep. Jared Polis speak about the bill that he co-sponsored with Rep. David Schweikert. The amendment would have...
How do token sales fit with securities regulations?
The case for treating some crypto-tokens as securities—and some not.
There are many types of digital tokens, ranging from tightly controlled airline miles to open and decentralized systems like Bitcoin. In this video explainer, Coin Center Director of Research Peter...