Comments to the Department of Treasury Regarding Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets
This comment describes concretely why digital assets, and cryptocurrencies in particular, are essential to the operation of decentralized systems, and what the actual benefits of decentralization and disintermediation are for...
The Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act is promising with room for improvement
Today Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Stabenow, Ranking Member Boozman, Senator Booker, and Senator Thune introduced the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act of 2022. It seeks to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges as...
The Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act has been introduced in the Senate
The Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act of 2022 was introduced with bipartisan sponsors in the Senate today. This is a companion to a bill with the same name that has...
It is a clear overreach for the government to force citizens to spy on each other without a warrant
Today Coin Center filed suit in federal district court against the Treasury Department in a facial constitutional challenge to the amendment of Section 6050I of the Tax Code that was...
A new SEC proposal has a serious change hidden within its complex language.
Coin Center files a comment explaining why it is unconstitutional.
Today Coin Center filed a comment letter with the Securities and Exchange Commission on its proposed rulemaking regarding the definition of ‘exchange’ and Alternative Trading Systems. Bottom line: The Commission's...
A SEC proposal has a serious change hidden within its complex language. Our comment explains why it is unconstitutional.
A direct download of this comment is available here.
New crypto sanctions bill targets publishing code, facilitating transactions
Bill would place sweeping restrictions on persons who build, operate, and use cryptocurrency networks even if they have no knowledge or intent to help evade sanctions though the Administration’s own experts have repeatedly said cryptocurrency evasion is not serious
Senator Warren and a raft of Democratic co-sponsors today introduced a bill [PDF] titled the Digital Asset Sanctions Compliance Enhancement Act, which would place sweeping restrictions on the cryptocurrency ecosystem...
Coin Center amicus brief in Jarrett v U.S.
Coin Center filed this amicus curiae brief urging a federal court to issue a final ruling in a case that can upend how block rewards are taxed
A direct download of this brief is available here.
Both of these bills would create a dangerously overbroad licensing requirement that could impose criminal liability on an untold number of Hawaiians
A direct download of this comment is available here.
Congress takes a step toward a de minimis exemption for everyday cryptocurrency transactions
The Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act has been re-introduced
The Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act of 2022 was introduced with bipartisan sponsors in Congress today. It would create a sensible de minimis exemption for low value cryptocurrency transactions in...