Update on Crypto-Blockchain Policy Issues around the World
summary
Global policy updates hit specifics: the EU’s MiCA moves into implementing rules and MiCA requires platforms to ID holders which targets exchange exit points for privacy coins; the US FIT21 bill proposes a new FIT21 "digital commodity" category while courts (Ripple) rule that programmatic XRP sales aren’t necessarily securities, with Coinbase litigation and a Tornado Cash criminal trial slated for fall; DOJ pursues privacy-tool cases, Hong Kong runs an exchange sandbox licensing experiment, and China records roughly $80 billion in yearly crypto flows.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:36Why policy matters
- 2:57Where is crypto-blockchain policy happening?
- 4:41How is policy decided?
- 7:27Europe: MiCA
- 9:14Europe: Ani-Money Laundering
- 9:52Europe: Dispensing fear, uncertainty and doubt
- 10:37United States
- 15:01China
- 16:20United Nations
- 16:50Rest of the world
- 17:07U.S. Courts: Background
- 17:47Courts: Ripple
- 18:47Courts: Coinbase
- 19:33Courts: Financial privacy technology class
- 20:53What’s next
- 22:17Question: European augmenting MiCA to marginalize P2P tech like zcash?