The FDIC just released 175 documents detailing its previous directives and suppression of banks’ commerce with crypto businesses. This tranche of documents is connected with Congressional investigations into Operation Choke Point 2.0.

Acting FDIC Chair Travis Hill wrote a statement accompanying this release. Hill criticized these anti-crypto initiatives while he was the Vice Chair and has since been promoted.

The FDIC’s War on Crypto

The FDIC has a sordid history with the crypto community, as it directly spearheaded a huge example of regulatory overreach. Under the alleged Operation Choke Point 2.0, banks were directed to cut off cryptocurrencies, and we still don’t know the full extent of this campaign.

However, FDIC Acting Chairman Travis Hill is seeking to change that by releasing 175 relevant documents.

“I have been critical in the past of the FDIC’s approach to crypto assets and blockchain. As I said last March, the FDIC’s approach ‘has contributed to a general perception that the agency was closed for business if institutions are interested in anything related to blockchain or distributed ledger technology,’” Hill claimed in an accompanying press release.

In the past four years, the FDIC severely damaged relationships between crypto and banks, prompting the community to build its own institutions. The winds are finally changing under the current administration.

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Author: Landon Manning