Blockchain’s night out: the Coin Center Annual Dinner is back!
This gala event is a night to let loose and celebrate another great year for the blockchain ecosystem, all while supporting Coin Center's policy advocacy mission.
Coin Center is pleased to announce the 2017 Coin Center Annual Dinner, a gala affair in support of our policy advocacy mission. The event will be held on Monday, May...
Great news for bitcoin and other blockchain startups from Switzerland today.
The Swiss Federal Council has proposed a simple plan that would exempt small fintech firms (accepting less than 1 million CHF from customers – or a bit over $1 million) from the...
Congressional Blockchain Caucus kicks off
Coin Center gathers members of Congress and staff to launch educational and policy effort
Yesterday on Capitol Hill Coin Center hosted a reception to honor the launch of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus, a bipartisan body within Congress dedicated to furthering understanding of blockchain technologies,...
Bitcoin innovators need legal safe harbors
These powerful regulatory tools were essential to the early Internet and now we need them again.
We got lucky with the Internet. The net we’ve come to know, love, and rely upon owes much of its existence to two laws passed by Congress in the late...
Things are looking up for Bitcoin’s biggest regulatory hurdle
How the OCC and states like Illinois are taking strategic, sensible approaches to promising new financial technologies.
This week we filed two regulatory comments in proceedings (with the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation) that...
The state has taken a reasonable and transparent approach to regulation that does not attempt to stretch statutory interpretation or apply ill-fitting older rules to new technologies.
A direct download of these comments is available here.
The price of bitcoin still doesn’t matter right now.
The new year began with a bang as the price of a single bitcoin rocketed up past $1,100 and quickly fell back to around $900, where it seems to be...
“Dear Mr. Trump: To ‘Cyber’ Better, Try the Blockchain.”
As president-elect Trump prepares to take office he must develop comprehensive plans to address growing cybesecurity concerns. In a recent op-ed for WIRED, Coin Center director of research Peter Van Valkenburgh suggests...
“Blockchain technology” is a buzzword with little meaning. Here’s what matters.
A thorough examination of the different types of blockchains, their capabilities, and why open blockchains in particular must be allowed room to thrive.
You may have heard that “blockchain technology” is the solution to any number of social, economic, organizational or cybersecurity problems. It is not. A blockchain is merely a data structure...
Open Matters: Why Permissionless Blockchains are Essential to the Future of the Internet
We demystify the actual technologies behind “blockchain technology” and explain these several technologies in a way that even non-technical readers will understand.
This report offers a non-technical but thorough explanation of “blockchain technology” with a focus on the key variables within consensus mechanism design that differentiate so-called permissioned or closed and permissionless...