Crypto-Friendly Regulation in the US – BitcoinBlog.de – das Blog für Bitcoin und andere virtuelle Währungen
In the US, lawmakers are opening up to cryptocurrencies. A new draft law aims to create legal certainty for developers, nodes, and DeFi, while the securities regulator SEC, under its new chairman, seeks to adapt regulation to crypto—rather than forcing crypto to adapt to it.
At its core, the legal situation is clear: anyone who custodies cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin on behalf of others is considered a financial service provider and is regulated accordingly. Those who don’t perform this function remain unregulated. There is a broad global consensus on this point.
However, some important questions remain troublingly unanswered in detail: What…
