Senate Hearing on Bitcoin Slated for November 18th
There's been talk of a Senate hearing on Bitcoin taking place soon. Heck, I've even reported about this recently. Now, information is coming forward that the hearings are slated to take place on the 18th of November before the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs and also the Senate Banking committee. Members of the bitcoin community (including Patrick Murck of the Bitcoin Foundation) are expected to testify in order to inform members of Congress of the digital currency's use and implications when it comes to finance and crime. The news comes from Mike Hearn, who's from the Law....
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We've already established that a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on Bitcoin is slated for Monday, November 18th, but did you know that there's another Bitcoin hearing the day following, on Tuesday, November 19th? It's being held by the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and will get going at 3:30 PM (there will be a live webcast). The hearing, titled, "The Present and Future Impact of Virtual Currency," will have witnesses in two panels. The first panel includes "Ms. Jennifer Shasky Calvery, Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement....
The US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has set 18th November as the date for its hearing into bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. US Senator Tom Carper, chairman of the committee, said last week that the aim of the hearing, titled 'Beyond Silk Road: potential risks, threats, and promises of virtual currencies', is to "dig into what a whole-government approach to this new and unique technology may look like". According to a post on the Bitcoin Talk forum, several people representing bitcoin interests have been invited to testify, including members of the....
View the full video of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on virtual currencies here. Don't bother running from regulation, said an influential agency director at a key government hearing on Monday 18th November - because in the long term, there's nowhere to hide. FinCEN director Jennifer Shasky Calvery warned virtual currency companies against fleeing US shores in the hope of more lenient regulatory frameworks elsewhere. "If business is going to leave the United States based on perceived or actual regulatory burden, I always believe that they're going....
Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review 22nd November 2013 - a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host ... John Law. Bitcoin's hearing aid. If you want to pick a date when bitcoin came to stay, you could do a lot worse than 18th November, 2013. Coming just ahead of the US Senate congressional hearing into bitcoin regulation, the head of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, said in a letter that - with the usual reservations and cautions - it had legitimate uses. In....
A hearing held by the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has announced the list of those who will speak at its November 18th hearing on Bitcoin. The hearing, named “Beyond Silk Road: potential risks, threats, and promises of virtual currencies,” will feature two panels. The first panel will consist of: Jennifer Shasky Calvery, from the Department of the Treasury Mythili Raman, acting assistant attorney general Edward W. Lowery III, special agent in the Secret Service’s Criminal Investigative Division The second panel will consist of: Ernie Allen, president of....