Looking at the approach of US agencies over the past two years, it’s hard not to miss the days when regulatory concerns and opinions hadn’t really ventured beyond “if something is illegal without crypto, it’s still definitely illegal with crypto”. The early days when the Silk Road, ransomware attacks, and run of the mill money laundering where the dominant (or even only) concerns that regulators had about crypto seem like a lifetime ago. Even though just 3 years ago, we saw every attempt to e...

Looking at the approach of US agencies over the past two years, it’s hard not to miss the days when regulatory concerns and opinions hadn’t really ventured beyond “if something is illegal without crypto, it’s still definitely illegal with crypto”. The early days when the Silk Road, ransomware attacks, and run of the mill money laundering where the dominant (or even only) concerns that regulators had about crypto seem like a lifetime ago. Even though just 3 years ago, we saw every attempt to e...