From Court to Code: Smart Contracts and Arbitration
Powering Sustainable Crypto: A General Counsel’s View
Crypto & Politics: Insights from Former Congressman David McIntosh
Exploring the AI and Crypto Intersection
Ask a CFIUS Expert: Is Crypto Spying on Us?
Dogecoin’s Day in Court
A Tale of Two Crypto Cases
Unpacking the Lummis-Gillibrand Payment Stablecoin Act: Implications for the Digital Asset Industry — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Podcast: Is Cryptocurrency a Security (like an orange grove)?
Navigating the Regulatory Waters: The SEC's Wells Notice to Uniswap and its Impact on DeFi — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Will Resiliency Carry the Digital Asset Sector Through 2024: Federal Legislative Developments and OFAC Consent Orders — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Will Resiliency Carry the Digital Asset Sector Through 2024: State-Level Developments — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Will Resiliency Carry the Digital Asset Sector Through 2024: Navigating the 2023 Regulatory Landscape — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
The Justice Insiders Podcast - Demystifying Sentences for White Collar Crimes: What's Next for SBF
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Federal Trade Commission: Looking Back at 2023 and Looking Ahead to 2024 and Beyond
No Password Required: Security Analyst at Rice University, WiCys Global Book Club Host, and No Password Required’s Poet Laureate
Unraveling the Crypto Code: California's New DFAL Explained – The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Episode 302 -- Matt Stankiewicz on DOJ's Massive Criminal Settlement with Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao
The Justice Insiders Podcast: The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Defendants Testifying (Poorly), FOMO, and How to Actually Blame Lawyers
FINCast Ep. 38 – The Future of Crypto: A Conversation with Coinbase’s Faryar Shirzad
Proposed federal legislation would move the time of taxation for rewards received from staking cryptocurrency and other digital assets to the time of sale. IRS guidance currently provides that staking rewards are taxed at the...more
Cryptocurrency has revolutionized the financial markets but also created tax traps for the unwary investor. Building on proposed regulations issued last year, the IRS recently increased its oversight of cryptocurrency...more
Have you fully disclosed offshore cryptocurrency and NFT activities to the IRS? Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice announced the indictment of a Texas man for tax returns that were inaccurate, incomplete, or...more
The proposed regulations under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) expand the definition of “broker” to include anyone who provides facilitative services which effectuate sales. Not surprisingly, centralized...more
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) recently issued guidance in Revenue Ruling 2023-14, holding that taxpayers who stake their cryptocurrency and receive additional units of cryptocurrency as rewards when validation occurs...more
On July 31, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Ruling 2023-14, which concludes that the fair market value of staking rewards received by a cash-method taxpayer is includible in the taxpayer’s gross...more
The IRS recently released Revenue Ruling 2023-14, in which it addresses the tax treatment of cryptocurrency staking rewards. The IRS phases the issue as follows: If a taxpayer that uses a cash method of accounting...more
Debacle- Understanding the etymology of a word often enables us to better understand or appreciate its use in contemporary speech. For example, the word “crypto” is derived from the Greek word “krypto,” which describes...more
Whether you’re an investor expanding your portfolio to include digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and tokens, a business that uses cryptocurrencies to engage in everyday transactions, or a crypto “miner," you need to...more
As the creation of and transactions involving non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have increased dramatically, so has interest in using NFTs as donations to charitable organizations and for other charitable fundraising tools. Given...more
On May 20, 2021, the IRS announced that “businesses that receive crypto assets with fair market value of more than $10,000” will need to be reported. In short, there will be a new layer of significant crypto-sphere reporting...more
On October 9, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued long-awaited guidance relating to transactions involving virtual currencies, such as cryptocurrencies. Aligned with the agency’s continuing efforts to enforce tax...more
The first official guidance on the taxation of cryptocurrency transactions in more than five years has been issued. The guidance includes both a Revenue Ruling (Rev. Rul. 2019-24, 2019-44 I.R.B. 1) and answers to...more
On October 9, 2019, the IRS released Revenue Ruling 2019-24, which provides guidance with respect to hard forks and airdrops of cryptocurrency, and new frequently asked questions (FAQs), which provide guidance on other...more
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) will be releasing guidance on the tax treatment and reporting requirements of “virtual currencies” (i.e., cryptocurrencies) very soon, according to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner...more
La última Notificación emitida por el IRS sobre Criptomoneda fue el Aviso 2014-21 publicado el 25 de Marzo del 2014 que brinda orientación en forma de respuestas a preguntas frecuentes (“Frequently Asked Questions”). ...more
With the use of virtual currency on the rise, questions emerge as to how virtual currency transactions are taxed. The IRS has issued guidance regarding the tax consequences of such transactions, answering some questions but...more
In this first of (we hope) many posts on the interesting and myriad tax issues arising in the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, we focus on the very basic U.S. federal income tax consequences of...more
For the first time, a large, publicly traded company—Japanese web-business GMO Internet—has announced that it will soon offer its employees the chance to receive their pay in the world’s most popular cryptocurrency: bitcoin....more
Due to its unprecedented level of value appreciation, Bitcoin investors, consumers and businesses are looking for IRS Guidance. IRS recognizes that “virtual currency” may be used to pay for goods or services, or be held for...more