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NCSL Legislative Video Resource Center

The NCSL Video Resource Center is a collection of recorded webinars accessible for on-demand learning.

Cryptocurrency Demystified: What You Need to Know and Why It Matters

This session is designed to broaden your knowledge and facilitate conversation about the future of cryptocurrency and what role, if any, legislators should play in their regulation.

This virtual roundtable will dive into the world of cryptocurrency, explaining the fundamental principles of digital currencies, and how it impacts states, investors, and the economy. Curious about the basics? Need more information to protect your constituents from fraud? Have questions about investing? This session is designed to broaden your knowledge and facilitate conversation about the future of cryptocurrency and what role, if any, legislators should play in their regulation. 

Crypto Demystified will be the first of NCSL’s four-part learning series focusing on Financial Services issues. Future topics and dates will be announced soon. Stay tuned!  

Moderator 

  • Barrie Tabin, legislative director, State-Federal Affairs, NCSL 

Panelist 

  • Mark Hays, associate director, cryptocurrency and financial technology, Americans for Financial Reform 
  • Peter Herzog, director of state and local government affairs, Crypto Council for Innovation 

NCSL Contacts

  • Barrie Tabin | legislative director, State-Federal Affairs 
  • Heather Morton | director, Financial Services, Technology and Communications