A legal advisory notice issued by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) on Tuesday declared that the de minimus exemption – which, when applied to a security, would allow the owner of an amount below a certain threshold to work on policy related to that security – doesn’t apply to any cryptocurrency or stablecoin, even if the cryptocurrencies in question “constitute securities for purposes of the Federal or state securities laws.”
Ethics Watchdog Bars US Government Employees From Writing Crypto Policy if Invested
