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Congressional and Federal Agency Action Following Executive Order on Digital Assets Policy
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The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act of 2025 (the “GENIUS Act” and the “Act”) establishes a regulatory infrastructure for defining, managing, custodying and issuing a specific kind of...more
The new law complements existing laws on digital tokens and virtual assets....more
On April 21, 2023, the IRS released Chief Counsel Advice Memorandum 202316008 (the “CCA”), which provides that cryptocurrency protocol changes are not treated as realization events and do not give rise to gross income for...more
In his famous 2018 speech, William Hinman, Digital Asset Transactions: When Howey Met Gary (Plastic), the Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), asked...more
The cryptocurrency industry may be breathing a sigh of relief following the release of recent IRS guidance on cryptocurrency tax reporting, which effectively postpones the January 1, 2023 effective date of the digital asset...more
On November 15, 2022, the New York Attorney General’s Office released its Fall Round-Up (“Round-Up”) describing major actions and initiatives implemented by New York Attorney General Letitia James (“AG James”) since August...more
Scoring a victory for the Securities and Exchange Commission in its efforts to qualify digital tokens as securities, a New Hampshire federal court ruled this week that tokens sold by LBRY Inc., known as LBC, are securities...more
There are widely varying opinions on blockchain and cryptocurrency. Corporate and TMT expert Nicholas Kuria recently spoke to Africa Legal about the impacts of the technology on business, nations and lawyers. Originally...more
Editor’s Note: On August 17, 2022, The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) under the leadership of Mary Mack and Kaylee Walstad, hosted HaystackID as we collectively shared an educational webcast developed to...more
As cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin rise in popularity, government regulators repeatedly try, and often fail, to control its use as a tax shelter. Agencies such as the IRS struggle with determining the best way to tax...more
As the global digital asset industry continues to grow, regulators worldwide have increased efforts to define and shape the legal landscape through various approaches. In the UAE, for example, the Financial Services...more
If you’ve engaged in cryptocurrency or other virtual currency transactions worth $20,000 in any one year between 2016 and 2020, the IRS wants to hear from you. The IRS believes thousands of taxpayers are not telling the...more
Crypto Firms Launch New Services, MIT Seeks to Improve Bitcoin Codebase - A San Francisco-based cryptocurrency custody firm successfully completed an $80 million funding round, following its recent procurement of a federal...more
The Ministry of Economic Development launched a public consultation setting out recommendations for the use of DLT and blockchain in a number of fields, including the regulatory banking and financial industry. ...more
A man from Michigan has been ordered to repay about $210,000 for his role in a cryptocurrency scam. The fraudster solicited investments from two people, promising them large returns, but he used the investment proceeds to buy...more
With the emergence of digital assets, the question has arisen whether digital assets held in “wallets” in foreign exchanges need to be reported on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 8938, Statement of Specified Foreign...more
During the month of October 2019, IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2019-24, FAQ’s on Virtual Currency Transactions and a DRAFT Form of Schedule 1, which, for the first time presents the question: “At any time during 2019, did you...more
On July 26, 2019, the IRS announced that it was in the process of sending letters to over 10,000 taxpayers with a history of cryptocurrency transactions by the end of August, noting that the letters were sent to taxpayers...more
This is Part 3 of a seven-part series of posts looking at some broad legal issues affecting crypto-currencies. ...more
This is Part 2 of a seven-part series of posts looking at some broad legal issues affecting crypto-currencies. State and federal regulators, especially the SEC, have moved aggressively to halt unregistered initial coin...more
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued a “call to action” for countries to do more to tackle enablers of tax crimes. The result of this “call to action” was the establishment of an...more
The cryptocurrency market is exciting to watch. Based on the revolutionary blockchain distributed ledger system, cryptocurrencies have exploded on the marketplace. As with any new “gold rush” to hit a market, cryptocurrency...more
William Hinman, Director, SEC Division of Corporation Finance, gave his personal views on when tokens and coins, which he referred to as digital assets, are securities and when they are not....more
The cryptocurrency market took a nosedive earlier this month after the stock market tanked and the Peoples Bank of China issued a statement that it would block access to all domestic and foreign cryptocurrency exchanges. ...more
Last month, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Galvin made good on his promise to conduct an exam sweep of ICOs in Massachusetts. On January 17, the Enforcement Section of the Massachusetts Securities...more