A new legal advisory notice from the US workplace of state Ethics prohibits any worker who owns cryptocurrency from engaged on Federal crypto regulation. 


US government officers who privately own cryptocurrencies area unit currently illegal from working on laws and policies that might have an effect on the worth of digital assets. 

A new advisory notice discharged by the US workplace of government Ethics (OGE) on Tues explicit  that the de minimis exemption — that permits for the owners of securities who hold an quantity below a definite threshold to work on policy related to that security — is universally inapplicable once it involves cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. 

“As a result, an employee who holds any amount of a cryptocurrency or stablecoin may not participate in a particular matter if the employee knows that particular matter could have a direct and predictable effect on the value of their cryptocurrency or stablecoins.”

The notice provided an example situation whereby an worker who owns a mere $100 of a precise stablecoin, is asked to figure on stablecoin regulation — the worker in question cannot participate in work regarding regulation “until and unless they divest their interests in [that] stablecoin.” 

The notice fixed that this ruling still applies even if the cryptocurrency or stablecoin in question were to ever “constitute [a security] for purposes of the federal or state securities laws.” 

The new ruling applies universally to all or any federal workers as well as The White House, The Fed and also the Department of the Treasury. 

The term “de minimis” comes from a extended Latin phrase, meaning: “the law doesn't concern itself with trifles.”

( Tom Mitchelhill, Cointelegraph, 2022 )