Bitcoin Policy

Speaker Johnson looks to maintain a “symbiotic” relationship between the Bitcoin and crypto industry and the Republican-led House, while advocacy groups such as the Bitcoin Voter PAC are committed to protecting the Republican majority in the House come midterms.

In the U.S. Senate Banking Committee’s most recent version of the CLARITY Act, Bitcoin and crypto developers would be protected from being charged with operating an unlicensed money transmitting business moving forward — and retroactively.

Bitcoin Policy UK, the UK’s premier Bitcoin think tank and advocacy group, has launched an app that enables residents of the U.K. to contact their member of parliament (MP) to advocate for Bitcoin in just a few clicks.

The Bitcoin Policy Institute of India has announced its launch on India’s Independence Day to highlight the notion that true freedom comes with the type of financial and economic sovereignty that Bitcoin provides.

Bitcoin is the only commodity for which miners are taxed by the IRS both when they mine bitcoin and when they sell bitcoin.

U.S. senators and crypto specialists propose stipulations for digital asset market structure legislation while highlighting the reality of illicit financing on public blockchains and noting the Trump family’s crypto dealings.

Despite a push from Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), an amendment regarding de minimus capital gains exemption on crypto spending was not included in the version of the One Big Beautiful Act that passed in the Senate.

Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), the main sponsor for the GENIUS Act, and policy analysts from the Bitcoin Policy Institute and Galaxy Digital believe that combining the GENIUS Act with the CLARITY Act as the former heads to the House floor for a vote will lower the likelihood of it passing.

The section of the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633) that protects Bitcoin and crypto users’ right to use noncustodial wallets as well as developers’ right to create such tools without being subject to The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) will remain in the bill as it gets voted on in the House.

Call your local elected officials and tell them to support the BRCA, which protects developers of noncustodial technology as well as a variety of services that preserve privacy and make it easier to scale Bitcoin.