A CNBC contributor said the U.S. government wouldn't stomach losing the dollar's supremacy to bitcoin. Others say "the ship has sailed" on an outright ban.
Both nations hope to prevent banks from providing services to crypto companies.
The exchange did not say in its latest filing why it withdrew the case, at least for now.
Critics of the rule said it would be technically impossible for some projects to comply because smart contracts and author-decentralized tools do not have name or address information to provide.
The Acting OCC head will reportedly end his brief tenure running the federal banking regulator by the end of the week.
The Financial Conduct Authority ban on the sale of derivatives and exchange-traded notes was passed in October.
Stablecoins should meet the same regulatory standards as other financial instruments, Trump’s Working Group on Financial Markets said.
FinCEN has posted a pair of job listings for crypto policy advisers amid rumors that new regulations around wallets will arrive soon.
Reps. Warren Davidson, Tom Emmer, Ted Budd and Scott Perry urged Steven Mnuchin to rethink his rumored self-hosted wallet regulations in an open letter Wednesday that warned such rules might "crush a nascent industry."
XMR, DASH and ZEC "were delisted at the same time for the same reason – to further derisk the company from a regulatory standpoint."
William Hinman, the director of the SEC’s division of corporation finance, is planning to leave the agency later this year.
The U.S. Department of Justice's enforcement framework may pose a serious threat to the digital privacy rights of crypto users.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s cryptocurrency enforcement framework is a warning shot to exchanges worldwide: Comply with U.S. law or face the potential wrath of the federal government.
The Digital Commodity Exchange Act would bring crypto exchanges into a single federal framework, overseen by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The European Commission may be proposing an all-encompassing set of regulations covering the trading of digital assets across the 27-nation bloc.