The European Securities and Markets Authority concluded as much in a recent discussion paper. We responded by quickly filing a comment that explains the benefits of open blockchains and reminds ESMA that there is nothing inherently unsuitable about these technologies for financial markets applications.
That was one of the conclusions of the European Securities and Markets Authority in a discussion paper on its Consultation on the Distributed Ledger Technology Applied to Securities Markets on...
Law enforcement is learning about the benefits of open networks.
Our research director Peter Van Valkenburgh was invited by the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force to discuss some of the many positive use cases for open, permissionless, blockchain networks that are uniquely enabled by this technology.
Last week I spoke at the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force's Digital Currency Symposium in Orlando. The NCIJTF is a multi-agency task force whose members include the FBI, NSA,...
Celebrating two years of fighting for sane Bitcoin policy
Two years into our cryptocurrency policy advocacy mission, we look back at some of our recent accomplishments and announce the latest batch of new Coin Center supporters.
This week Coin Center is celebrating its second anniversary! Since launching two short years ago, our team has been hard at work to ensure that any government action on cryptocurrencies...
Why do we get up each morning to work at a cryptocurrency nonprofit?
It’s for the same reasons that Zooko Wilcox works on Zcash, which he articulated in a great interview with Bitcoin Magazine today. It’s worth quoting in full: The Internet is...
The blockchain powered future is amazing and maybe even a little scary.
In this thorough article Bloomberg BusinessWeek offers a thoughtful approach to examining what life in a world increasingly built on this technology might be like.
This week Peter Coy and Olga Khariff wrote a thorough examination of the state of “blockchain” for Bloomberg BusinessWeek. It looks at some of the technology’s use cases being developed...
Bitcoin is a legitimate technology that’s being exploited by extortionists for ransomware.
Even so, we must not forget the clear benefits to the wider world that these technologies promise and already deliver in some use cases.
That’s the conclusion of a spot-on analysis by Danny Palmer in ZDNet this week: Ultimately, it could be said that the internet itself has been a huge gift for criminals,...
State banking regulators are nervous with the prospect of a federal fintech charter.
The federal approach that we've argued for would offer another path to regulatory clarity over the state-by-state licensing patchwork that exists today, which in turn would keep the United States competitive in FinTech. According to American Banker, some state bank supervisors do not agree.
That’s what American Banker is reporting a great piece quoting several state commissioners. Bank supervisors in several states, which already oversee many examples of tech firms that provide financial services,...
We got a deeper look at how law enforcement uses Bitcoin forensics.
It is the deepest look yet into the corruption scandal that brought down two federal agents.
This compelling story from Ars Technica gives us the deepest look yet into the corruption scandal that brought down two federal agents. The duo attempted to steal and extort hundreds...
Is the EU about to impose on itself state-by-state licensing of digital currency businesses?
The easy "passporting" of licenses in the EU has been seen as a competitive edge for the bloc, but would be undermined if legislators pursue a new route proposed by the EBA requiring dozens of state-by-state AML registrations.
That's the concern raised by Diacle's Adam Vaziri in response to a new European Banking Authority report on applying EU anti-money-laundering rules to exchanges and wallets: [T]he EBA's remarks notably...
How can Blockchains Improve Access to Health Data?
There's a lot of buzz about blockchains being used to improve health data systems. Emily Vaughn of Gem demystifies these potential applications and explains how these technologies may make our health information more portable and secure.
The library catalog is a relic of days gone by, but in its prime, it was the best way to find what you were looking for at the library. The...