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The Wash-Sale Rule Would Break Crypto Tax Compliance
The wash-sale rule was designed for a narrow context: securities held as long-term investments, typically within a single account, where taxpayers can deliberately time tax losses without changing their economic...
Letter to the SEC regarding First Amendment limits on jurisdiction
A PDF version of this filing is available here. Dear Chair Atkins and Commissioner Peirce, This letter addresses a threshold issue for the Commission’s approach to digital assets: the First...
Software is Speech: Why Regulators Cannot Invent the Missing Middlemen
“i’m sorry that your warrantless surveillance regime was built on the assumption that people would always need intermediaries to transact” — unattributed Financial regulation has traditionally applied where a person...
Continuing the fight for developer rights with appeal to Fifth Circuit
Michael Lewellen has filed a notice of appeal in Lewellen v. Garland to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, seeking review of the district court’s March 25...
Treasury’s GENIUS report is encouraging but there is still work to be done
Introduction On March 6, pursuant to the GENIUS Act, the Department of Treasury published its report to Congress on “Innovative Technologies to Counter Illicit Finance Involving Digital Assets.” For background,...
Letter to the SEC’s Crypto Task Force
A PDF version of this filing is available here. Dear Chair Atkins and Commissioner Peirce, We appreciated your joint remarks at ETHDenver and are encouraged by the Commission’s stated interest...
Do Not Sacrifice Developer Protections in Market Structure
The Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA) must be an integral part of any market structure regime. There is no sustainable blockchain ecosystem in the US if developers who write or...
Senate Banking Nears Vote on Digital Asset Market Structure
The Senate Banking Committee is finally nearing a committee vote on market structure legislation. Coin Center’s priorities throughout have been twofold: first, to pass the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA)...
Six Ways Congress Can Make Crypto Taxes Work for Everyday Users
At Coin Center, our mission is to defend the rights of individuals to build and use free and open cryptocurrency networks. Sound tax policy is central to that mission. Without...
Coin Center’s Top Policy Priorities for 2026
Stop unjust prosecutions of non-custodial software developers The Department of Justice is targeting software developers with unlicensed money transmission prosecutions even though the relevant federal regulator, FinCEN, has been clear...