The U.S. SEC will hold a roundtable on cryptocurrency privacy issues on December 15.

According to Cryptopolitan, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) Cryptocurrency Special Working Group announced that it will hold a roundtable meeting on December 15 to specifically discuss the increasingly prominent issues of privacy and financial surveillance in the Crypto Assets ecosystem. The meeting will invite industry leaders in the Crypto Assets sector to discuss the challenges faced by the industry and possible solutions with SEC officials.
The background of this meeting is the recent widespread attention on privacy issues in the Crypto Assets industry, including the partial guilty verdict of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, the sentencing of Samourai Wallet developers, and the significant increase in the prices of privacy coins over the past two months.
It is worth noting that Matthew Galeotti, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, issued a statement in August indicating that the practice of prosecuting developers solely for writing open-source code will cease, emphasizing that writing code itself does not constitute a crime in the absence of malicious intent.