Fireside Chat: Crypto lost the battle in DC, what happens next?

Aug 13, 2021

We had the opportunity to meet with Tom Block, FSInsight’s Washington and Policy Strategist, along with Sean Farrell, our VP of Digital Assets.

Last week we met to discuss the crypto provision tucked inside the Infrastructure Bill, which loosely defined broker and many saw this as negatively affecting the future of blockchain & crypto innovation here in the US.

A compromise amendment was then proposed, which clarified the language and exempted software developers, transaction validators, and node operators as brokers.

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