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Analysis: What is and what is not a sanctionable entity in the Tornado Cash case
By treating autonomous code as a “person” OFAC exceeds its statutory authority.
The Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act is promising with room for improvement
How an open patents alliance can protect all cryptocurrency developers
On the Coin Center Tangents podcast this week I talked to Kirupa Pushparaj (who runs the intellectual property practice at Square) about the Crypto Open Patents Alliance. If you’re part...
As outlined in its consultation paper, “Transposition of the Fifth Money Laundering Directive”, HM Treasury is currently considering broadening the scope of the UK’s anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism...
Non-custodial cryptocurrency mixer developers are not subject to U.S. regulation.
A recent seizure of a custodial cryptocurrency mixer by EU authorities has prompted some people to ask us what this means for popular privacy software like CoinJoin or Wasabi Wallet,...
The Constitution Protects Software Developers and Users from Surveillance Overreach
An aggressive attempt to regulate software developers and individual users would violate our privacy and speech rights
Electronic Cash, Decentralized Exchange, and the Constitution
Regulators, law enforcement, and the general public have come to expect that cryptocurrency transactions will leave a public record on a blockchain, and that most cryptocurrency exchanges will take place...
What is “open source” and why is it important?
The computer code undergirding each major cryptocurrency and open blockchain project is developed as open source software. Regulators and policymakers looking into cryptocurrencies but unfamiliar with open source software may...
The Communications Decency Act, which protected the internet's early innovators, is a perfect model for protecting the people and companies building it's next level infrastructure.
What does “permissionless” mean?
At the heart of the much-hyped “blockchain” technology lies not a blockchain, surprisingly, but a consensus mechanism. A consensus mechanism does what it says; it helps everyone on the network...
