We talked with the CFTC, Politico, and NPR about why cryptocurrency matters.
The CFTC has jurisdiction over the trading of futures on decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum . A critical part of Coin Center’s mission is to help regulators understand the...
Making sense of Lightning network nodes and money transmission licensing
An update on Coin Center’s work to avoid unnecessary regulatory burdens on technologists.
The Lightning Network seems to be getting closer to production. This is a promising scaling solution that could greatly reduce the cost, latency, and energy use of Bitcoin transactions. We...
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...