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Treasury and the Federal Reserve withdraw another 2020 financial surveillance proposal
Treasury and the Federal Reserve are withdrawing another long-pending rulemaking that would have expanded financial surveillance of cryptocurrency users. In October 2020, FinCEN and the Federal Reserve jointly proposed lowering...
Peter Van Valkenburgh’s speech at the 2026 Coin Center Annual Dinner
Last year I stood before you and asked, without a touch of irony, “Are you sick of winning yet?” ARE YOU? Well, GOOD NEWS! I’m happy to report that the...
A tax case every self-custody holder should monitor
In a case that has received little attention to-date, the IRS alleges that a bitcoin user who self-custodied his coins owes income taxes on assets created by Bitcoin forks that...
Treasury just withdrew crypto surveillance rule proposals long opposed by Coin Center
The “unhosted wallet” and mixer rules would have expanded reporting into our pockets
A thin DOJ policy memo is no substitute for legal protection
Lewellen argues that DOJ enforcement discretion cannot replace clear legal protection for non-custodial developers
The Crypto Tax Bill Gets Block Rewards Wrong
A markup in the Ways and Means Committee today perpetuates the legal mistake made by the IRS
The proposed BRCA changes are a tough pill to swallow
The revised language stops short of resolving the essential criminal law issue; Lewellen’s lawsuit becomes that much more important.
Congress wants answers on agency surveillance of Americans’ bank accounts
On August 10, 2026, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representatives Warren Davidson (R-OH), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wrote a letter to the Acting Comptroller General for the...
The CLARITY fight is bigger than crypto. It’s revealing the case for more control of the internet.
A critic of CLARITY, in coming for crypto, inadvertently (or not) reveals a tech authoritarian dream.
Non-prosecution promises are not enough: Courts must rule on devs and money transmission
Developer Lewellen lays out what’s at stake for open-source speech and user privacy
