What Bitcoiners Are Doing to Fight Ransomware
How the digital currency community is helping law enforcement agencies get the information and tools they need. This article originally appeared in Fortune.
A recent wave of high-profile ransomware attacks has swept the globe and brought with it attention to Bitcoin. It’s not surprising that if a person’s first exposure to cryptocurrency is...
We demonstrated how Bitcoin works in Congress.
Coin Center held a Bitcoin demo day for members of Congress and their staff.
Earlier this month the Terrorism and Illicit Finance Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing to assess the national security implications of open blockchain networks like Bitcoin....
Pictures from the 2017 Coin Center Annual Dinner are now available.
Our second annual fundraising dinner, held this year after first day of Consensus 2017, was a huge success. Hundreds of open blockchain technologists and businesspeople came out to support Coin Center...
Video: How does multisig make bitcoin more secure?
Coin Center has partnered with the Federalist Society to produce this simple explanation of multisignature cryptocurrency wallets.
Coin Center has partnered with the Federalist Society to produce this simple explanation of multisignature cryptocurrency wallets. Multsig allows users to split up the permission needed to move cryptocurrency held...
We partnered with the Federalist Society to produce this short explanation of multi-signature bitcoin wallets and some of the things they enable.
Coin Center briefed four major DC organizations on open blockchains this week.
We are often called upon to help policy organizations understand what open blockchains are, how they work, and what they can do.
June has been a busy month for Coin Center. In addition to directly advocating for sound policy toward open blockchains, such as by responding to a recent anti-money laundering law...
Congress’s new anti-money laundering bill likely duplicates existing law on digital currency
Digital currencies are already covered under the Bank Secrecy Act and new language could upset years of policy and compliance work.
A bill recently introduced in Congress, the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017 (S. 1241), has raised concerns in the digital currency community. This is our...
Why is decentralized and distributed file storage critical for a better web?
The team behind IPFS and Filecoin explain how advances in distributed data storage and strong alignment of market incentives are combining to create a much more secure and efficient web.
In the span of less than three decades the web has become one of the greatest achievements in human history, responsible for never before seen gains in science, technology, and...
Comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission on the Bitcoin Investment Trust
This would give the investing public a safe and secure financial instrument on a national securities exchange with which to obtain the bitcoin exposure they seek.
A direct download of this letter is available here.
How will regulators look at your token sale?
Recently a small conference called “Token Summit” brought together the growing community of developers that are interested in the red hot area of tokenized crowdfunding. Through the new mechanism, millions...