Silk Road corruption case shows how law enforcement uses Bitcoin
Crimes committed with Bitcoin are not beyond the law.
This week it was revealed that two federal agents who worked on the task force that investigated the Silk Road illicit drugs market have been charged with stealing bitcoins from the site....
Coin Center releases March 2015 Bitcoin Public Sentiment Survey Data
The first time American attitudes toward Bitcoin have been measured using a statistically sound sampling technique.
Today Coin Center released this month’s data from our ongoing Bitcoin Public Sentiment Survey. The survey measures American attitudes toward Bitcoin using a statistically sound sampling technique, the first of its...
Coin Center files comment on NY DFS revised BitLicense proposal
The latest version of the BitLicense takes into account many of the changes we suggested but there are still a number of issues that need to be worked out.
Today Coin Center submitted its public interest comment on New York’s revised BitLicense proposal. The revised proposal, which was released on February 4th, takes into account many of the changes we and others in...
Sign this letter to tell NY DFS that the BitLicense needs a safe harbor
Small companies and individual technologists need space to innovate without having to ask for permission or obtain a license.
It has become an oft-repeated adage that Bitcoin in 2015 is akin to the internet in 1995. And if there was one aspect of law and policy that was crucial...
The New York BitLicense and California’s Digital Currency Bill – A Comparison
Both approaches have their strengths but neither is perfect.
Last Monday, I testified before the California Assembly’s Banking and Finance Committee about the innovative potential of cryptocurrencies. And this coming Friday, we will be filing comments on the revised draft of...
Coin Center comments on CFPB proposal to regulate digital currencies
More study is needed before sweeping regulations are promulgated.
Today Coin Center filed a public interest comment in response to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s recent notice of proposed rulemaking relating to prepaid products. While this proposal is focused primarily on...
The UK plan for Bitcoin is a step in the right direction
We are pleased to see such a measured and reasonable response from a government.
As recently as two years ago there was an open question about how governments would react to Bitcoin. Some observers warned of a coming backlash from governments attempting to quash cryptocurrency. How...
How Bitcoin Will Change International Bank Payments
Correspondent banking can be made cheaper and faster using the type of peer-to-peer technology underlying Bitcoin.
Peer-to-peer technologies that allow parties to bypass intermediaries are bringing change, and competition, to a wide variety of industries—and banking is no exception. New companies like TransferWise and CurrencyFair, for...
Apple Pay isn’t enough to fix a broken payment system
High levels of fraud show us that slick apps are only as good as the payment system they rely on.
The Wall Street Journal has taken note of an alarming level of fraud in Apple Pay transactions: [I]t’s not ‘an anomaly’ to see fraud accounting for about 6% of Apple Pay transactions,...
Report: Bitcoin enables unprecedented financial privacy and security
Traditional electronic payments require that we give too much access to our personal information.
The past year was frightening for consumers and retailers alike. Data breaches at major companies led to huge caches of personally identifying information becoming available to malicious actors. Breaches can...