DOJ Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework Highlights Risk for Those Engaged in Virtual Asset and Cryptocurrency Activity

In case it was not already clear, the U.S. Department of Justice recently confirmed that ensuring the use of cryptocurrency “is safe, and does not imperil our public safety or our national security, is vitally important to America and its allies.” With the U.S. Attorney General’s Cyber-Digital Task Force’s Oct. 7 publication of the Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework, we now know a lot more about how the DOJ views the threats cryptocurrency may pose, the regulatory tools at the government’s...
By: Fenwick & West LLP

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