Expect the Treasury Department to roll out new regulations on cryptocurrencies later this year, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday.

“We are about to roll out some significant new requirements,” Mnuchin told the Senate Finance Committee, according to several media reports. “We want to make sure that technology moves forward; on the other hand, we want to make sure cryptocurrencies aren’t used for the equivalent of old Swiss secret number banking.”

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