Coin Center which is a non profit blockchain advocacy group filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of the Treasury for allegedly provisioning an unconstitutional amendment in the controversial infrastructure bill.
Coin Center revealed the filing of a suit against the Treasury Department in federal district court challenging the enforcement of Section 6050I’s reporting mandate within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The 6050I amendment requires individuals and businesses to report information related to all incoming transactions worth $10,000 or more which includes the sender’s name, date of birth and Social Security number.
Coin Center in its announcement emphasized how the amendment affects the entire crypto community including the NGOs that receive anonymous donations and nonfungible token artists who will have to reveal their client’s personal information to the government.
In the first claim of the lawsuit Coin Center alleged that the 6050I provision is not aimed at collecting information about the third parties but rather focuses on the information about the general public participating in crypto transactions.
The second claim is about our freedom of association the company added as it pointed out a Supreme Court ruling that forbids the government from forcing organizations to keep and report lists of their members.
