Resources & Links
- FDIC FOIA letters (via Coinbase): Letters showing FDIC's informal pressure campaign on banks to pause/withdraw crypto services (2022)
- House Financial Services hearing materials (Feb 6 2025): Testimony and documents on OCP 2.0 enforcement tactics
- Pirate Wires series by Nic Carter: Parts I–V and postmortems—multi-part investigation into OCP 2.0
- FFIEC “Roadmap to Mitigate Crypto‑Asset Risks” (Jan 2023): Regulatory guidance treating digital-asset services as high risk
- Reuters post‑mortem analysis: In-depth reporting on the March 2023 bank failures
- GAO report on bank failures: Government Accountability Office audit of March 2023 collapses
- NYT: Crypto Firms Forced Abroad: How U.S. regulatory pressure sent crypto companies overseas
- Caitlin Long (Custodia Bank): Industry critique of OCP 2.0 and reputational risk
- Brookings: Operation Choke Point, A Primer: Background and legal context
- Cato Institute: Operation Choke Point Returns—Crypto in the Crosshairs: Think tank analysis
- Mayer Brown: Fed Policy Statement on Crypto Activities: Legal analysis
- Law360: Operation Choke Point 2.0—Crypto’s Newest Threat: Legal news and commentary
- CoinDesk: OCP 2.0 and the SVB Collapse: Industry analysis
- Federal Reserve policy statement (Jan 2023): Statement restricting crypto activities at banks
- White House policy statement (Jan 2023): Administration’s roadmap to mitigate crypto risks
- Coinbase: FOIA process explainer: How to file a FOIA request for regulatory documents
- Cointelegraph: Timeline of OCP 2.0 events: Chronology and media coverage
- Coin Center: Policy advocacy and legal briefs: Nonprofit research and legal advocacy
- SSRN: Academic papers on banking, crypto, and regulation: Peer-reviewed research
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