Beyond Silk Road: Potential Risks, Threats, and Promises of Virtual Currencies
Jerry Brito Testifies Before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Bitcoin
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Benefits and Risks of Bitcoin for Small Businesses
Testimony Before the House Committee on Small Business. A copy of this testimony is available here.
U.S. CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee
Jerry Brito discusses cryptocurrencies and the technology's implication for derivatives in global markets. A copy of his remarks are available here.
Disrupter Series: Digital Currency and Block Chain Technology
Testimony before US House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade. Jerry Brito along with other experts and industry leaders were invited to give an overview of Bitcoin technology and answer questions...
Hillary Clinton’s new tech agenda mentions blockchains.
The extent of the mention in the factsheet on her "Tech & Innovation Agenda" is this: We must position American innovators to lead the world in the next generation of...
Let’s take a deep breath on the FSOC report’s ‘warning on Bitcoin’
Neither Bitcoin nor digital currencies are the subject of the warnings. As the authors say, their concern is “migration” of existing financial systems to distributed ledgers.
The Financial Stability Oversight Council yesterday released its annual report and in it noted “distributed ledger technology” in its discussion of “potential emerging threats and vulnerabilities” to the U.S. financial system. The...
How to improve North Carolina’s digital currency bill
Recently some have hailed North Carolina’s Senate Bill 680 as very friendly to cryptocurrency innovators. This is sadly not the case.
North Carolina’s Senate Bill 680, which seeks to cover virtual currency under the state’s money transmission law, has been making its way through the state legislature. Recently some have hailed...
DAOs: the internet is weird again, and these are the regulatory issues
Some facts about Ethereum, DAOs, and public policy.
While talking about Ethereum with a colleague about a week ago, the DAO inevitably came up. We disagreed about some of the risks and some of the benefits we imagined...
Why we need a federal fintech charter
Coin Center’s comment letter responding to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s request for comment on its recent white paper on innovation.
Yesterday we filed a comment letter responding to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s request for comment on its recent white paper on innovation. In it, we praise the OCC...
Comments to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Supporting Responsible Innovation
We tell the OCC why it should create a federal fintech charter.
Coin Center filed this comment letter responding to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s request for comment on its recent white paper on innovation. In it, we praise...