The bipartisan Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, introduced today by Sens. Warren and Marshall, is the most direct attack on the personal freedom and privacy of cryptocurrency users and developers...
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Today Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Stabenow, Ranking Member Boozman, Senator Booker, and Senator Thune introduced the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act of 2022. It seeks to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges as...
Congress Takes Its War on Cash to Digital Assets
The United States government really does not like Americans to make large cash transactions. Now, due to a new law, it really, really does not want Americans to use “digital...
Joint Economic Committee – Demystifying Crypto: Digital Assets and the Role of Government
Coin Center testified before the Joint Economic Committee in a hearing entitled "Demystifying Crypto: Digital Assets and the Role of Government." Peter Van Valkenburgh's written testimony can be found here.
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...
Congress warns Treasury on unusually short cryptocurrency short rulemaking
Closing 2020 out with a bang, a bipartisan group of members of Congress joined in the chorus of protests to the process by which the Department of Treasury is seeking...
The Unintended(?) Consequences of the STABLE Act
The recently introduced STABLE Act aims to ban any stablecoin that is not issued by a federal bank. Yes, any stablecoin irrespective of whether it is issued by a state-regulated...
Two new bills in Congress would clarify agency jurisdiction over cryptocurrency
Three longstanding policy issues facing cryptocurrency technology are being addressed by two new bi-partisian bills introduced in the House today: (1) the patchwork of state-by-state licensing of exchanges, (2) the...
Congress takes a step toward a de minimis exemption for everyday cryptocurrency transactions
The Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act of 2020 was introduced with bipartisan sponsors in Congress today. It would create a sensible de minimis exemption for low value cryptocurrency transactions in...
Three pro-cryptocurrency bills are being introduced in Congress
Update - 1/14/2019: The Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act has been reintroduced by Reps. Emmer and Soto. We applaud this bipartisan approach. Today Representative Emmer from Minnesota's 6th congressional district and Representative...