📚 Sharing knowledge is one of the main pillars of the CfC St. Moritz: We are looking forward to welcoming Zenotta with Andrew Kessler, Perkins Coie with Joseph Cutler, B2C2 with Nicola White and Ripple with Brooks Entwistle. 15 days to go! #cfcstmoritz

Policy Roundtable Perkins Coie PCBlockchainLaw Coinbase 🛡️ Filecoin World Economic Forum #davos2023 the future is looking good ❄️🔥

We're hiring influencers and by that I mean firefighters who influence the forest to no longer be on fire.

Link to SEC Proposed Rule on Qualified Custodians and #crypto: sec.gov/rules/proposed… 60-day comment period . . . GO!

Important #privacy news: Illinois Supreme Court finds that BIPA Claims Accrue With Each Scan insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2…

Link to the breaking and important BIPA case out of Illinois Supreme Court, holding that each and every use of a person's BIPA-covered data in violation of the statute will be treated as a separate violation: ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net/antilles-resou… #privacy #biometrics

Our elite #Blockchain team does it again! Perkins Coie served a defendant in a crypto case by dropping an NFT into a crypto wallet. Read about it and meet my colleagues to did it in Law360’s article here: lnkd.in/gQpXfbHj #cryptolaw #nfts

The Federal Reserve’s Novel Activities Supervision Program: What Banks and Nonbanks Need to Know - eepurl.com/iyGGLM

Great news out of Hawaii for #crypto companies: HI DFI: "[D]igital currency companies will no longer require a Hawaii-issued money transmitter license to conduct business within the state. The companies will be able to continue transaction activity as an unregulated business."

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Well, it finally happened. BTC @ $100K marks a milestone for me. When I did my first legal project for crypto in 2010, the price of BTC was around $0.30. I pivoted from a promising privacy practice to this “crypto” thing, and haven’t looked back. Glad I did!

Ok now I’m furious 😂

Bye, bye SAB 121! It's not been fun: SEC.gov | Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 122

Hester Peirce What is SAB 121? • SAB 121 was issued by the SEC to address accounting and disclosure related to the safeguarding of crypto assets for companies offering custody services for such assets. It required companies to recognize a liability and a corresponding asset on their balance

Crypto reform already underway: SEC rescinds SAB 121: sec.gov/rules-regulati…

We published some thoughts on the CFPB’s new posture and position on the Open Banking Rule, the effects of the change, and what we can expect in the future. If you have further questions, please reach out! perkinscoie.com/insights/blog/…

Excited to announce that we have added Ted Dowd, former acting OCC Chief Counsel to the Perkins #fintech and #blockchain team! We are ready for the next generation of financial players! perkinscoie.com/news/press-rel…

Was great to sit down with American Lawyer and add some thoughts to the status of the legal market's crypto engagement at this important moment.

Thrilled to see my former colleague nominated. @MikeSeligEsq is a true professional, deeply knowledgeable, and above all, one of the best guys I’ve known in the #crypto space. Go Mike!