Jesse Hamilton

Jesse Hamilton is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor on the Global Policy and Regulation team, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022, he worked for more than a decade covering Wall Street regulation at Bloomberg News and Businessweek, writing about the early whisperings among federal agencies trying to decide what to do about crypto. He’s won several national honors in his reporting career, including from his time as a war correspondent in Iraq and as a police reporter for newspapers. Jesse is a graduate of Western Washington University, where he studied journalism and history. He has no crypto holdings.

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Policy

Planned Crypto Hearing in U.S. House Derailed by Democrat Revolt

Democrats abandoned a joint hearing of two committees on crypto policy, inviting people to instead attend their own discussion of Trump's "crypto corruption."

U.S. Representative Maxine Waters (video capture, House Financial Services Democrats roundtable)

Policy

Trump's Crypto Play Fuels Senators' Backlash and Bill to Ban President Memecoins

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy pushed a bill to block presidential coins while Elizabeth Warren described how to get Dems to move forward on stablecoins.

Connecticut Democrat Senator Chris Murphy (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

News Analysis

Dems Stall Stablecoin Bill, Jeopardizing More Important Crypto Regulation Bill

The Senate's stablecoin bill's issues may delay work on the far more important market structure legislation.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Digital Asset Summit in New York City. (Nikhilesh De)

Policy

U.S. Crypto Market Structure Bill Unveiled by House Lawmakers

As a successor to the so-called FIT21 bill in the last session, the committee chairs in the House have released a discussion draft of a market structure bill.

U.S. Capitol Building (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Policy

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Burmese Militia Group Said to Run 'Pig Butchering' Compounds

The Karen National Army and its leaders were sanctioned on accusations they perpetuated crimes against U.S. citizens that featured crypto thefts.

Burma (Zinko Hein/Unsplash)

Policy

U.S. Senate Moves Toward Action on Stablecoin Bill

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has started the process toward a vote on the legislation to establish rules for stablecoin issuers.

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Policy

U.S. Government Begins to Sever Cambodia's Huione Group from Financial System

The Treasury Department's financial-crimes arm used its most potent safeguard to propose cutting off the organization as a money-laundering danger.

Huione website (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Congressman Pitches Crypto ATMs for Federal Government Buildings

Texas Republican Lance Gooden suggested to the agency that runs office space that installing ATMs will help align the government with Trump's crypto push.

Crypto ATM (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Coinbase Leaps Into Supreme Court Case in Defense of User Data Going to IRS

The U.S. crypto exchange filed a brief in a longstanding privacy battle over records the tax agency sought on customers' crypto transactions.

Coinbase appeared again in the U.S. Supreme Court to make a case on arbitration. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Crypto Coalition Tells SEC Staking Is 'Essential Good,' Not a Security

Industry entities led by the Crypto Council for Innovation argued in a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it shouldn't regulate staking.

U.S. SEC headquarters in Washington (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)