U.S. Comptroller of the Currency: Law should adapt to remain relevant
Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry is right to argue that the letter of the law may have to change in the face of technological advancement in order to carry out the spirit of the law.
Many of the laws and regulations that affect open payments systems like Bitcoin were written at a time when only closed proprietary systems existed. As a result, some of the...
Video: Can Bitcoin Feed a Family?
Bitcoin remittances can help workers send more money to their families.
Learn Liberty, a project of the Institute for Humane Studies, has begun an effort to educate students about Bitcoin. They will be offering a one week course that examines the technology’s fundamentals,...
Steady Sentiment and the Problem of Scams
A lot of people distrust Bitcoin. We think we know why.
Today we release another month of data in Coin Center’s ongoing Bitcoin Public Sentiment Survey. The survey, now six-months-running, measures American attitudes toward Bitcoin using a statistically sound sampling technique, the...
Video: Three Things to Know About Bitcoin
Some basic facts about the technology.
Learn Liberty, a project of the Institute for Humane Studies, has begun an effort to educate students about Bitcoin. They will be offering a one week course that examines the technology’s fundamentals,...
The BitLicense Needs a Safe Harbor
Sign this letter to tell the NYDFS that reasonable safe harbors foster innovation.
Following extensive public comment, the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) issued its revised “BitLicense” proposals last week in hopes of taming our newest wild west: digital currencies. The...
Should You Trust This Secretive Chinese Bitcoin Mine?
A video from Vice’s Motherboard depicts a “secretive” Bitcoin mine in China. Should we be concerned? Far from it.
This fascinating video from Vice's Motherboard has been making the rounds: The video has inspired some pointed questions along the line of "does this make you feel that Bitcoin is...
Coin Center to testify before NJ State Assembly
The New Jersey State Assembly today deepens the ranks of lawmakers who are working to educate themselves on the promise of digital currencies like Bitcoin.
The New Jersey State Assembly today deepens the ranks of lawmakers who are working to educate themselves on the promise of digital currencies like Bitcoin. The Assembly’s Financial Institutions and...
Our initial thoughts on New York’s revised BitLicense proposal
Breaking down this first-of-its-kind rule.
The New York Department of Financial Services has released a revision of its proposed BitLicense. This revised draft will soon be published in the New York State Register and that...
‘Age of Cryptocurrency’ is the serious introduction to Bitcoin we’ve been waiting for
A sober yet exciting account of cryptocurrency, told by two very smart and objective reporters.
One of the things we do on an almost daily basis at Coin Center is explain Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and what they mean for society and the economy. We usually do...
Reporting from the EU Parliament: Building an Open Bitcoin Coalition
We went to the European Parliament. Here's what happened.
Yesterday I spoke at the European Parliament's STOA (that's Science and Technology Options Assessment) workshop. I was one of eight speakers discussing, "The Collaborative Economy: Impact and Potential of Collaborative...