Kollen Post

Kollen Post is Cointelegraph's policy editor. He specializes in mapping the intersections of regulation, law and blockchain, especially as they cross national borders. Outside of crypto, he likes languages, rock climbing and bad horror movies.

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Stablecoins and CBDCs and their related issues of privacy and surveillance lead this week's Law Decoded.

Law Decoded: Cents and stability, Nov. 20–27

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2020-11-27T17:35:37+00:00

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Intuit, which also owns TurboTax, is not allowed to control all consumer tax software, says DoJ.

DoJ makes fintech giant sell Credit Karma's tax wing to Square before $7.1B acquisition

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2020-11-25T17:37:10+00:00

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The Director of National Intelligence wants to have the SEC’s leader briefed on the dangers of the U.S. falling behind in crypto.

US intelligence is looking at Chinese CBDC as a national security threat

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2020-11-25T14:45:45+00:00

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The Biden team looks to Janet Yellen to lead the next administration's economic policy, which will have to navigate the wreckage left in the wake of the coronav...

Biden plans for former Fed Chair and noted Bitcoin bear to lead US Treasury

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2020-11-23T20:40:31+00:00

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The paper also put forward CBDCs as solutions to high transaction fees and the energy use of mining cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

US Fed researcher says CBDCs should beat Big Tech payments on privacy protection

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2020-11-23T16:27:46+00:00

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Libel laws and new faces at the U.S. securities regulator lead the week's news.

Law Decoded: Green lights of the SEC, black flags of Binance, Nov. 13–20

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2020-11-20T22:43:05+00:00

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New and developing research from the International Monetary Fund suggests that central banks around the world need new legal definitions for tokenized currencie...

IMF lawyers argue that central banks need reform before they can issue CBDCs

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2020-11-20T21:23:56+00:00

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New rule-making aims to stop "creeping politicization of the banking industry," says OCC head.

US regulator wants to stop banks from blacklisting legal businesses, crypto included

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2020-11-20T20:00:00+00:00

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