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

According to a report from Cryptopolitan on November 21, the U.S. SEC's special cryptocurrency working group announced that it will hold a roundtable on December 15 to specifically discuss the increasingly prominent issues of privacy and financial surveillance in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The meeting will invite leaders from the crypto industry to explore the challenges facing the industry and possible solutions with SEC officials.

The background of this conference is the recent widespread attention on privacy issues in the Crypto Assets industry, including the partial guilty verdict against 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, the Deputy 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.