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RegulationOFAC listed Tornado Cash. That is a sanctions list, not a code review.
Treasury said the service had laundered billions, including proceeds attributed to North Korean hackers. Compliance desks now have addresses to avoid. A protocol mailing list is not the SDN list.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
RegulationBiden’s digital-assets order is a process memo, not a ban
The White House asked for reports on consumers, financial stability, illicit finance, competitiveness, inclusion, and a possible US CBDC. That is coordination. It is not a protocol change.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationChina’s 2021 crypto notice banned the business, not the maths
Exchanges, brokers, token sales and derivatives serving mainland residents are out. Holding a key is not the same as running a venue. May’s mining crackdown was a different instrument.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationEl Salvador made bitcoin legal tender. That is one country’s experiment.
Businesses are told to accept bitcoin alongside the US dollar. Chivo, ATMs, and a $30 signup bonus are the product. Volatility and the IMF are the weather around it.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationChina told miners to leave. Hashrate moved. The protocol did not.
Vice-Premier Liu He’s committee named mining in a risk list. Provinces that hosted the world’s hash began to shut barns. Bitcoin kept producing blocks at whatever hash remained.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationBitMEX’s charges are about a derivatives shop, not Bitcoin
An unregistered crypto-derivatives platform that took US customers, the government says, without the AML programme the law wanted. Leverage is a company product. Liquidation engines are too.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationThe SEC’s Telegram case is about a token sale, not a chat app
About 2.9 billion Grams sold to 171 buyers, including more than a billion to US purchasers, the complaint says — unregistered, with delivery tied to a late-October chain launch. An ICO can be a securities case.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationFacebook’s Libra taught regulators to write faster
A social network with billions of users proposed a payment token governed in Geneva, backed by bank deposits and short-term government paper. That is a company product aimed at scale. It is not bitcoin.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationNew York’s Tether order is about a balance sheet, not a peg algorithm
About $850 million stuck at Crypto Capital, then a line of credit on Tether’s cash, the filing says. A dollar token is a company IOU plus whatever sits behind it.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readLatest Regulation news
RegulationThe CFTC asked questions about a crypto exchange licence. Questions are not the licence.
On 5 October 2026 the CFTC published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking for Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM. The Federal Register printed it on 13 October. Comments run to 14 December. There is no rule text in force.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min readRegulationFinCEN withdrew two wallet proposals that had never taken effect.
On 5 October 2026 FinCEN withdrew the December 2020 unhosted-wallet proposal and the October 2023 plan to treat crypto mixing as a primary money-laundering concern. Both withdrawals took effect on 6 October. Neither draft had ever been in force.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min readRegulation