Bitcoin Falls Into Gray Area of Disclosure Rules for Congress
- Rules for stock, bond trading silent on digital currencies
- Lawmakers playing catch-up as bitcoin interest spreads
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To guard against insider trading and financial conflicts, members of Congress and federal officials must file regular reports on their assets -- including stocks, bonds and derivatives.
Yet there’s no explicit mention in the disclosure requirements about bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies that are drawing intense interest from investors and confounding regulators worldwide.