The US Congressional Hearing on ICOs was “Hello and Not Goodbye” to Crypto

[kreslik.news]

On March 14, the United States Congress held a hearing with a House Financial Services subcommittee on capital markets, securities, and ICO markets to speak about cryptocurrencies and ICOs. Also present at the hearing were legal and academic crypto experts, including (among others) Mike Lempres, chief legal and risk officer at Coinbase, and Dr. Chris Brummer, Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

The hearing addressed plenty of important topics with relation to crypto, but as some who were present at the hearing have noted, the path forward with crypto regulation is complex. While this conversation was certainly ... (read more)