Open Blockchains and Decentralized Identity Standards
An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team, and membership
Coin Center is the leading non-profit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency and decentralized computing technologies. Our mission is to build a better understanding...
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An unworkable and arguably unconstitutional tax change tucked away in the infrastructure bill
§6050I requires counterparties to surveil each other, even without an intermediary
Much has been said of the dangerously ambiguous revised definition of “broker” in the infrastructure bill and its potential to stifle cryptocurrency innovation in the U.S. There is, however, another...
Senate Banking Committee – Cryptocurrencies: What are they good for?
Coin Center testified before the Senate Banking Committee in a hearing entitled "Cryptocurrencies: What are they good for?" Jerry Brito's written testimony is available here. For more information and...
House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburgh testified before the subcommittee. His written testimony is available here. Additional questions for the record, published after the hearing, are available here. More...
Presentations from the Cryptocurrency and Hayek conference
Hosted by Coin Center and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Nic Carter: What is cryptocurrency for Hayekians? Nevin Freeman: Private Money Balaji Srinivasan: The Pseudonymous Economy Erik Voorhees: Decentralization & Use of Knowledge in Society Peter Van Valkenburgh: Fatal...
“Expansive” standards for surveillance threaten human autonomy—our message to FATF
The global body’s draft guidance makes a substantial departure from the balance struck by existing standards
Today Coin Center submitted a comment to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) about their recent draft guidance on virtual assets and virtual asset service providers (VASPs). Additionally, this morning...
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A quick analysis of FATF’s 2021 draft cryptocurrency guidance
An undemocratic process results in stronger calls for even more mass warrantless surveillance
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has released an updated draft of its “Guidance for a Risk-based Approach to Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs).” Several proposed changes...
Any expansion of automated surveillance on innocent transactions would be unacceptable
Today we filed our third comment in FinCEN’s “midnight” rulemaking. Thanks in large part to the efforts of the community and a massive outpouring of comment letters, we managed to...