Concerns about initial coin offerings among U.S. regulators and lawmakers were on full display during a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday. “I believe every ICO I’ve seen is a security,” Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Jay Clayton declared early on, perhaps setting…

As might be expected, Tuesday’s Senate hearing on cryptocurrency regulation touched on an oft-discussed facet of digital assets: their price volatility. Appearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Securities and Exchange Commission chair Jay Clayton and Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair J. Christopher…

“It’s important to remember that if there were no bitcoin, there would be no distributed ledger technology.” That was the response from Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo when asked by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton about the value of the…