Powers On… Top 5 crypto legal and regulatory developments of 2021
Cointelegraph
Published Dec 22, 2021 09:04AM ET
Updated Dec 23, 2021 10:00AM ET
While still leading the securities litigation, hedge fund and SEC defense national practices at my last law firm, BakerHostetler, my practice team members and I would prepare an annual list of key developments and cases in the area each December.
It was usually a top 10 list that was then published by Wolters Kluwer in one of its CCH publications and by BakerHostetler as a separate publication to our law firm clients. Now that I am officially retired from law firm practice and these days devote most of my professional attention to the blockchain and crypto space, my editor, Max Yakubowski, and I thought it made sense to do something similar for Cointelegraphs readers.
h4 1. El Salvador adopts BTC as a national currency/h4 h4 2. The United States woke legislation on blockchain transactions/h4 h4 3. Federal Reserve Chair Powell is open to the benefits of blockchain for the financial system/h4 h4 4. SEC allows Bitcoin ETF for retail customers/h4 h4 5. Ripple fights the SEC in court/h4
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