Six principles governments around the world should heed when considering blockchain regulation
Understanding, engagement, and a transparent regulatory processes are the keys to a successful approach.
All over the world, entrepreneurs and technologists are developing novel uses for cryptocurrencies and the open blockchain technologies they power. Depending on how those developers apply these technologies they may...
Why ransomware criminals use Bitcoin and why that could be their undoing.
Last week's major ransomware attack put Bitcoin back into spotlight. With that comes questions about what Bitcoin is, how it works, and why it is apparently favored by ransomware hackers....
It’s time to assess the potential for terrorist use of cryptocurrencies
Bank derisking and irrational state by state licensing help create the conditions for criminals and terrorists to abuse cryptocurrency networks.
News reports today that Congress may soon commission a study assessing the link between terrorism and virtual currencies have generated concern within the cryptocurrency community, but they shouldn’t. No one should...
Letter to the Government of India, Department of Economic Affairs
We share six principles that we have found to be at the heart of successful approaches to government regulation of or self-regulation by the open blockchain industry.
A direct download of this letter is available here.
Get your tickets for the Coin Center Annual Dinner.
The blockchain community’s biggest night out is fast approaching. Please join us on May 22 in New York City, after the first day of Consensus 2017, for a fundraising gala...
EpicenterTV: Towards Sound Bitcoin Policy
Peter Van Valkenburgh went on the Epicenter podcast to discuss Coin Center's work and how regulators are looking at these technologies.
Sixth Letter to the Uniform Law Commission
Our final comments on the ULC’s model Regulation of Virtual Currency Business Act offer several critically important changes.
A direct download of this letter is available here.
Wary banks may be choking off the blockchain industry.
Aggressive de-risking is nothing new for digital currency businesses. Last year we released a report documenting the difficulty these startups had been having in securing banking relationships. Now the problem...
The CSBS is suing the OCC to stop the new special purpose national bank charter for fintech firms.
In a press release, CSBS (the Conference of State Bank Supervisors) makes some alarming claims, suggesting the OCC is doomed to fall asleep at the switch, allow firms to fail,...
Bitcoin’s DC Debut: All Eyes Watch the US Government’s Response
Jerry Brito recounts the the first time policymakers in DC took a formal look at Bitcoin, back in 2013. This article originally appeared in CoinDesk.
On 18th November, 2013, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held the US Congress's first hearing on bitcoin. These days, such meetings hardly raise an eyebrow. Back then,...