BREAKDOWN: Why Coin Center Is Suing the US Government
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🗓️ 18 June 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The group argues a tax provision in last year’s infrastructure bill is unconstitutional.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR and FTX US.
On this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at two stories from the past week in crypto. The first is advocacy group Coin Center’s lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury Department and the IRS around what it argues is an unconstitutional surveillance provision in last year’s infrastructure law. The second is the announcement of Web5 from Jack Dorsey’s TBD.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, near an FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, June 18th, and that means it's time for the weekly |
| 0:28.0 | recap. Before we dive into the weekly recap, however, a quick bit of housekeeping. There are two |
| 0:34.3 | ways to listen to the Breakdown Podcast. It comes out each afternoon on the |
| 0:38.5 | Coin Desk Podcast Network, which features both The Breakdown as well as other great Coin Desk shows, |
| 0:42.8 | and then it comes out in the evening on the Breakdown Only feed. Wherever you are listening, |
| 0:47.5 | if you would be so kind as to go leave a five-star rating or a review, it makes a huge difference, |
| 0:53.2 | and I really appreciate it. |
| 0:54.9 | Lastly, a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work |
| 0:59.6 | with FTX. |
| 1:01.2 | Now, there has been a ton going on in the crypto space that with everything happening on that |
| 1:06.2 | larger macro scale, we just haven't had as much of a chance to dig deep on as I'd like to. |
| 1:11.8 | So let's start today's show with the title story, why Coin Center is suing the U.S. government. A couple |
| 1:18.1 | weeks ago, I did a show called the crypto industry's appetite for legal battles is growing. |
| 1:23.5 | The argument was basically that there are some questions that the crypto industry feels that it has not gotten correct answers on, |
| 1:30.7 | or in other cases, specific licensure that it feels like it's being held up on. |
| 1:35.5 | It is now increasingly willing to avail itself of the legal system to demand some answers. |
| 1:41.5 | There were two examples that I gave on that show. |
| 1:45.6 | The first was Custodia Bank, |
| 1:50.1 | which used to be called Avanti Bank, from Caitlin Long, suing the Federal Reserve around its application for a Fed Master account. That's a direct account that is held with the Federal Reserve |
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