The Communications Decency Act, which protected the internet's early innovators, is a perfect model for protecting the people and companies building it's next level infrastructure.
As we wrote last January, 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...
Here’s how the tax treatment of Bitcoin is broken.
I couldn’t have put it more succinctly than this piece in the Wall Street Journal today: One complication is that the IRS treats bitcoin as property, rather than currency. The...
The OCC has just taken another step toward a national fintech charter.
Today it released a draft of the licensing manual supplement that will be used by fintech companies digital currency and blockchain companies among them to understand and engage in the...
The Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF has been rejected by the SEC.
The first of several attempts to create an exchange traded fund based on cryptocurrency tokens has failed in its bid for regulatory approval. Coin Center executive director Jerry Brito had...
This updated framework gives regulators the tools they need to develop sound policy around open blockchain networks like Bitcoin.
Last weekend I attended what will probably be the final meeting of the Uniform Law Commission’s drafting committee for a model Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act (the RVCBA!). The...
We explained open blockchains at the FTC’s FinTech forum today.
This morning the Federal Trade Commission held the latest event in its series of FinTech forums and it focused on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchains. The half-day workshop was designed to...
Penned by Georgetown business professor Jim Angel, the article is almost as alarmist as it is pessimistic. While he writes that “Informed investors should be allowed to make their own...
Terrorist use of cryptocurrencies is not a major risk.
Defense think tank: Terrorist use of digital currencies is a limited risk and overreaction could stifle important innovations.
That’s the message from David Carlisle, formerly of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, in a report for the Royal United Services Institute, an...
One of bitcoin’s best bets for sound regulation is about to wrap up.
We’re optimistic about the final meeting of the ULC committee drafting a model virtual currency law. This process began all the way back in October of 2015, and since then...
Hawaii’s issue with Bitcoin businesses has an obvious and easy solution.
This week Coinbase, one of the world’s largest and most trusted digital currency companies, announced that it would be suspending operations in Hawaii. The move follows a decision made by...