Blockchains and Regulation: Why Open Matters
Peter Van Valkenburgh presents at the Bitcoin School Greece's Smart Contracts Day event.
For more on this presentation topic, see its related report: Open Matters: Why Permissionless Blockchains are Essential to the Future of the Internet.
Come meet Coin Center in Chicago on June 5th.
The Chicago Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Community meetup has invited Coin Center’s Jerry Brito to give an overview of the regulatory challenges facing these technologies, what we are doing to...
Open blockchains have all kinds of startup innovators excited.
That’s what we took away from a fireside chat that Brad Burnham conducted with Peter and me at Union Square Ventures’ office this week. The room was mostly comprised of...
Is Grey the New Normal in Legal & Compliance?
Peter Van Valkenburgh moderates a panel of legal experts at the Token Summit Conference in New York City.
It should not be a crime to help victims of ransomware
A recent court filing suggests that selling a victim the bitcoins needed to pay a ransom may be seen as complicity in the attack.
Ransomware is a detestable scourge on the internet, and it’s a shame that for many it is their first exposure to Bitcoin. As we have previously explained, Bitcoin is not...
Consensus 2017: The OCC’s New FinTech Charter – Panacea or Distraction
Jerry Brito moderates a panel a Consensus 2017.
Consensus 2017: Legality & Structure of ICOs
Peter Van Valkenburgh participates in a panel discussing this novel crowdfunding mechanism.
Read more: Could your decentralized token project run afoul of securities laws? The Bank Secrecy Act, Cryptocurrencies, and New Tokens: What is Known and What Remains Ambiguous
The Bank Secrecy Act, Cryptocurrencies, and New Tokens: What is Known and What Remains Ambiguous
Are compliance obligations triggered when the developers of a new decentralized token protocol sell them to U.S. persons?
This report summarizes how various activities performed with cryptocurrencies and similar tokens have thus far been characterized by FinCEN and other authorities for the purposes of determining the compliance obligations...
Securities Laws Aren’t the Only Rules Token Sales Have to Consider
Peter Van Valkenburgh discusses potential AML/KYC issues for cryptographic token sales. This article originally appeared in CoinDesk.
There is a dangerous hole in our current understanding of federal regulation of token sales, and it's not what you may think. Several lawyers, myself included, have previously sounded the...
More mainstream use will help regulators understand Bitcoin’s benefits.
That’s what Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center’s director of research, said when he went on the Epicenter podcast recently. The wide ranging interview, which covered topics such as the differences...