Crypto Legislation is more than the currency

Congressional Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry this week pointed to blockchain, the underpinnings of cryptocurrency, as ripe for data privacy legislation. Policy issues are: who owns the data parts in blockchain technology? Do we protect tri-party authentication? Do we abandon username and passwords? Are we protecting the data in its pieces along the way and together?

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