Twitter CEO Donates $1M to Coin Center

Grayscale hopes to build off the success of Kraken’s donate-and-match program from 2018. Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital-asset manager, has pledged $1 million to Coin Center, Washington, D.C.’s most influential cryptocurrency advocacy group — a move it believes will help broaden “foundational knowledge” of the industry.The million-dollar donation was announced Monday in a press release, which also revealed Grayscale’s plan to match contributions to Coin Center through the end of February. Over that period, Grayscale plans to match donations dollar-for-dollar up to an....

Coin Center, an educational and research institution, today launched its website with the aim of focusing on public policy issues facing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Coin Center, "a new voice for Bitcoin," announced the launch of its website and its mission: "To build a better understanding of the technology in order to promote a regulatory climate that preserves maximum freedom of action for digital currency innovation." While the organization is not affiliated with any particular Bitcoin company, product, or initiative, Coin Center's focus is on engagement, education, research:....

On August 15, the non-profit that focuses on policy issues facing crypto assets, Coin Center, published a blog post that says the organization is looking at the legality of the recent Tornado Cash sanctions enforced by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC). The post, published by Coin Center’s Jerry Brito and Peter Van Valkenburgh, explains that by treating autonomous code as a ‘person’ “OFAC exceeds its statutory authority.” Coin Center Insists ‘OFAC Has Overstepped Its Legal Authority’ Coin....

Coin Center, a US-based non-profit research and advocacy centre for cryptocurrencies, released a paper today offering a guide framework for the regulation of cryptocurrencies as securities. Authored by Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center's director of research, the paper presents a framework based on the Howey test for an investment contract, as well as the underlying policy goals of securities regulation. Coin Center's work, says Van Valkenburgh, found that several "key variables" within the software underlying a cryptocurrency, and in the community that runs and maintains that....

Jerry Brito, the executive director of Coin Center, which has been advocating for the advancement and free use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, says Bitcoin still needs about five more years to be powerful. Coin Center is a Washington think tank that studies the Blockchain and digital currencies. Brito, who has been involved in advising the government to take a light regulatory approach as the technologies evolve, thinks that now is the best time to get involved in the cryptocurrency. Jerry Brito has been a vocal Bitcoin advocate since 2014 when he launched Coin Center as an....