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Food for Thought: A Federal Safe Harbor for non-custodial cryptocurrency users

The coming new administration and incoming Congress have an opportunity to concretely support open blockchain networks. Here’s how.

Folks in Congress often ask us what they can do to ensure the continued flourishing of open blockchain networks. Typically we tell them that what we need are clear statements...

European regulators are under the impression that “open” blockchains may be inappropriate for financial services.

The European Securities and Markets Authority concluded as much in a recent discussion paper. We responded by quickly filing a comment that explains the benefits of open blockchains and reminds ESMA that there is nothing inherently unsuitable about these technologies for financial markets applications.

That was one of the conclusions of the European Securities and Markets Authority in a discussion paper on its Consultation on the Distributed Ledger Technology Applied to Securities Markets on...

Law enforcement is learning about the benefits of open networks.

Our research director Peter Van Valkenburgh was invited by the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force to discuss some of the many positive use cases for open, permissionless, blockchain networks that are uniquely enabled by this technology.

Last week I spoke at the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force's Digital Currency Symposium in Orlando. The NCIJTF is a multi-agency task force whose members include the FBI, NSA,...

Comments to the European Securities and Markets Authority on its Consultation on Distributed Ledger Technology Applied to Securities Markets

Our comments on ESMA’s conclusion that “open” or “permissionless” blockchains may be inappropriate for financial services in its discussion paper entitled, “The Distributed Ledger Technology Applied to Securities Markets.”

A direct download of this letter is available here.

Celebrating two years of fighting for sane Bitcoin policy

Two years into our cryptocurrency policy advocacy mission, we look back at some of our recent accomplishments and announce the latest batch of new Coin Center supporters.

This week Coin Center is celebrating its second anniversary! Since launching two short years ago, our team has been hard at work to ensure that any government action on cryptocurrencies...

Why do we get up each morning to work at a cryptocurrency nonprofit?

It’s for the same reasons that Zooko Wilcox works on Zcash, which he articulated in a great interview with Bitcoin Magazine today. It’s worth quoting in full: The Internet is...

The blockchain powered future is amazing and maybe even a little scary.

In this thorough article Bloomberg BusinessWeek offers a thoughtful approach to examining what life in a world increasingly built on this technology might be like.

This week Peter Coy and Olga Khariff wrote a thorough examination of the state of “blockchain” for Bloomberg BusinessWeek. It looks at some of the technology’s use cases being developed...

Bitcoin is a legitimate technology that’s being exploited by extortionists for ransomware.

Even so, we must not forget the clear benefits to the wider world that these technologies promise and already deliver in some use cases.

That’s the conclusion of a spot-on analysis by Danny Palmer in ZDNet this week: Ultimately, it could be said that the internet itself has been a huge gift for criminals,...

State banking regulators are nervous with the prospect of a federal fintech charter.

The federal approach that we've argued for would offer another path to regulatory clarity over the state-by-state licensing patchwork that exists today, which in turn would keep the United States competitive in FinTech. According to American Banker, some state bank supervisors do not agree.

That’s what American Banker is reporting a great piece quoting several state commissioners. Bank supervisors in several states, which already oversee many examples of tech firms that provide financial services,...

We got a deeper look at how law enforcement uses Bitcoin forensics.

It is the deepest look yet into the corruption scandal that brought down two federal agents.

This compelling story from Ars Technica gives us the deepest look yet into the corruption scandal that brought down two federal agents. The duo attempted to steal and extort hundreds...