Six months of crypto policy: The good, the bad, and the lingering questions
We’re six months into the new administration and the 119th Congress. So much has happened that it’s difficult to keep it all straight. For clarity, here are the big news...
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Trump’s Big Crypto Report Is Coming. It Should Address Block Rewards and Privacy.
President Trump’s Executive Order on digital assets (EO 14178) directed the agency heads sitting on the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets to produce a report reevaluating outdated or...
What the Proposed 5% Remittance Tax Means for Crypto Users
Over the past few months the new Congress and Administration have shown that they can approach crypto regulation with deliberation and respect for process: the repeal of the broker rule...
It’s time for Congress to kill the broker rule.
We anticipate that Congress will soon vote on a joint resolution to revoke the IRS’s unconstitutional December broker rule.1 The December rule obligates mere software and infrastructure providers to identify...
It has become a quadrennial holiday tradition in crypto policy for the outgoing administration to release a civil-liberties-damaging rulemaking at the last possible moment, the midnight period before a new...
If Budget Reconciliation is used for Tax Provisions, Crypto should be Included
In the wake of a political sea change in Washington, Republicans have begun discussing tax changes for next year. The discussion centers around a process known as “budget reconciliation” and...
Coin Center’s Top Policy Priorities for 2025
Recently we published our analysis of the changing crypto policy landscape following the elections. Now we’d like to offer you a list of our top outstanding policy issues and potential...
Jarrett takes IRS back to court in fight over crypto block rewards
Today Josh Jarrett filed a new lawsuit challenging the IRS’s taxation of block rewards, and Coin Center is pleased to be assisting him in this litigation. We have been advocating...
Two victories in our fight against unconstitutional financial surveillance.
Today we’re happy to share two incremental but important victories in our fight to protect the rights of cryptocurrency developers and users. First, Coin Center has won an important appeal...
The Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act was introduced by Senator Ted Budd and cosponsored by Senators Kyrsten Sinema, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Cynthia Lummis. The bill creates a sensible de minimis...