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Senate Banking Committee – Cryptocurrencies: What are they good for?
Coin Center testified before the Senate Banking Committee in a hearing entitled "Cryptocurrencies: What are they good for?" Jerry Brito's written testimony is available here. For more information and...
House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburgh testified before the subcommittee. His written testimony is available here. Additional questions for the record, published after the hearing, are available here. More...
The ideal regulatory environment for Bitcoin
We’re often asked what our ideal regulatory environment would be for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies like it. A few years ago, in a regulatory submission to the Indian Ministry of Finance,...
What are mixers and “privacy coins”?
Public blockchain cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are radically transparent at the protocol level: transactions are viewable and immutable to everyone forever on the blockchain ledger. They are not anonymous, but...
Without privacy, do we really want a digital dollar?
COVID-19 is accelerating discussions about digitizing the dollar. Relief payments to support those suffering economically have revealed shortcomings inherent in current payment infrastructure. Fear of contagion has made handling physical...
How to trace a virus without surrendering our privacy
COVID-19 is dominating policy discussions here in Washington and abroad. Cryptocurrency policy is—rightly—not top-of-mind for folks in government at the moment. There is one area of our collective response to...
In the latest installment of their multi-part series meant to help those who may need to transact privately in the course of their sensitive work, security expert Eric Wall details...
A recent New York Times report highlights that Facebook’s Libra project has led Beijing to accelerate its cryptocurrency effort: A state-issued e-currency would help China’s government know more — much, much more...
The Case for Electronic Cash in an Open and Free Society
Jerry Brito lays out why society must embrace the privacy cryptocurrencies offer and what we could give up in a world without them. Learn more about this conversation.
Cross-global panel on Government and Privacy
Our experts shared stages from simultaneous cryptocurrency conferences on different sides of the world. They came together for a conversation about our message to policymakers on privacy.