The Consumer Protection Challenge
Peter van Valkenburgh moderates a panel on the consumer protections questions raised by this technology at a cryptocurrency policy conference that Coin Center teamed with the Cato Institute to produce.
Moderator: Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research, Coin Center Panelists: Margaret Liu, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Conference of State Bank Supervisors Marco A. Santori, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop...
Cryptocurrency: The Policy Challenges of a Decentralized Revolution.
Coin Center teamed up with the Cato Institute to put on a free daylong conference in Washington, DC, to examine the policy challenges of a decentralized revolution. Speakers include Representative...
Is the US losing its global competitive edge in fintech?
The UK has been bending over backwards to make it easy and quick for innovative startups and entrepreneurs to comply with appropriate consumer protection regulations and safely enter the market.
One year ago, we noted the UK government’s announced its intention to “create a world-leading environment for the development of innovative payments and financial technology,” and over the past year it has...
Second Letter to the Uniform Law Commission
Coin Center submitted this letter to the Uniform Law Commission regarding regarding definitions proposed by Coin Center for the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act (URVCBA).
A direct download of this letter is available here.
Our Congressional testimony on the blockchain’s disruptive potential
Digital currency and blockchain technology returned to Capitol Hill last week during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce committee’s subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
Digital currency and blockchain technology returned to Capitol Hill last week during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce committee’s subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade. The high-level hearing...
Why Bitcoin is not the root cause of ransomware
Ransomware has been around for a while—turns out it’s about twenty years older than Bitcoin—but it’s been in the news again recently.
Ransomware has been around for a while—turns out it’s about twenty years older than Bitcoin—but it’s been in the news again recently because of a particularly upsetting case involving a Los Angeles Hospital. Most...
Letter to the Uniform Law Commission
Coin Center submitted this letter to the Uniform Law Commission regarding its model law to license virtual currency businesses.
A direct download of this letter is available here.
No, FinCEN Policy is not Relevant to the Bitcoin Forking Debate
Are the developers of software that leads to a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain (like Bitcoin Classic) subject to regulation under the Bank Secrecy Act?
Some recent blogs posts have raised an interesting question: are the developers of software that leads to a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain (like Bitcoin Classic) subject to regulation under the...
Coin Center raises $1 million for 2016 operations, announces new supporters
We are pleased to announce that over the past month Coin Center has raised over $1 million to fund its 2016 operations.
At Coin Center, our mission is to make sure that policymakers understand the workings and implications of cryptocurrency, and to ensure that the technology remains as free of unnecessary regulation...
Today we are releasing our Framework for Securities Regulation of Cryptocurrencies. In it we lay out the case for treating some cryptocurrencies as securities—and some not.
Strange bunch of things right? Mink, bullion, golf course, diamond, worm farm, chinchilla, orange grove, beaver? Aside from the anomalous prevalence of furry mammals, what can we say about this...