Coin Center files court brief in defense of Tornado Cash developer
The publication of Tornado Cash code is clearly protected by the Constitution
Today Coin Center filed an amicus brief in Roman Storm’s ongoing criminal case in the Southern District of New York. In this brief, we help the court cut through the...
Amicus Curiae In Support of Roman Storm’s Motion to Dismiss
A direct download of this brief is available here.
A direct download of this comment is available here. To whom it may concern: Coin Center is an independent nonprofit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues...
A direct download of this comment is available here. To whom it may concern: Coin Center is an independent nonprofit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues...
New crypto tax reporting obligations took effect on new year’s day
Here’s what you need to know and what we’re doing about it
We wish you all a very happy new year! Unfortunately, the new year also brings a new law that is not only unconstitutional but also virtually impossible to comply with...
While portions of the proposal may be workable, much will depend on how legislation is ultimately drafted
This week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sent a letter to the heads of the Senate Banking and House Financial Services Committees following a briefing on how Hamas and...
It’s time to have the conversation: Is the Bank Secrecy Act unconstitutional?
Beyond the speech and privacy issues, the BSA is a sweeping delegation of law making power
Today we’re publishing another report on the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) entitled “Broad, Ambiguous, or Delegated: Constitutional Infirmities of the Bank Secrecy Act.” In our 2019 report, “Electronic Cash, Decentralized...
Broad, Ambiguous, or Delegated: Constitutional Infirmities of the Bank Secrecy Act
The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) allows the Secretary of the Treasury to demand transaction surveillance and reports of personal information from a category of entities defined as “financial institutions.” Originally...
There’s a centuries-old standard that tells us when regulation of crypto is justified
We explain in a comment letter on the IRS’s proposed broker rules, but the standard applies well beyond
Today Coin Center submitted a comment letter in the Treasury Department’s ongoing rulemaking on the definition of “broker” for third-party tax reporting purposes. In brief, we argue that the definition...