Bitcoin for Monetary Providers will host “Bitcoin as Everyday Money,” a stay occasion and livestream, on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 10:00 AM PT at The Venetian’s Satoshi Social Room (Rooms 2002–2004) throughout Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas.
Capped at 100 in-person attendees and streamed globally by way of TFTC, the occasion invitations coverage leaders, business executives, and enterprise house owners round a single goal: “getting a Bitcoin de minimis tax exemption passed in this Congress”, in accordance with a press launch shared with Bitcoin Journal.
The occasion is headlined by Janessa Lopez, Head of Digital Belongings Coverage at Block, and David Zell, President of the Bitcoin Coverage Institute. Lopez and Zell will open with a hearth chat on the state of play in Washington, sharing what they’ve seen behind closed doorways on the Hill and the actual chance of laws passing in 2026.
Lopez will observe with a stay “BTC is Money” demonstration, exhibiting how a small enterprise can settle for Bitcoin on the level of sale via Sq. — and what that have seems to be like for a buyer spending Bitcoin on a cup of espresso or paying a plumber. An viewers Q&A and networking reception will shut this system, which runs from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM PT. The occasion is hosted by Wyatt O’Rourke and Jordan Guess of Bitcoin for Monetary Providers.
De Minimis Tax Framework at Bitcoin 2026
The occasion builds on a January 12, 2026, coalition letter despatched to Senate Finance Chairman Mike Crapo and Home Methods and Means Chairman Jason Smith, co-signed by the Bitcoin Coverage Institute, Block, Bitcoin Voter Venture, Crypto Council for Innovation, The Digital Chamber, MoonPay, and River.
The letter lays out a three-pillar framework for digital asset tax coverage:
- (1) cash-like therapy for GENIUS-compliant fee stablecoins with no transaction or annual limits.
- (2) de minimis reduction prolonged to “qualifying network digital assets” on blockchains with a trailing six-month common market capitalization above $25 billion — a threshold designed to seize Bitcoin whereas excluding thinly traded or speculative property.
- (3) a value-based threshold of $600 per transaction and $20,000 per 12 months, moderately than a gain-based check that might require taxpayers to trace value foundation on each espresso buy.
“That framework responds directly to pending Washington proposals that would limit de minimis relief to stablecoins only” mentioned the press launch — an method the coalition argues would go away the underlying compliance burden “largely unmitigated”, as a result of each stablecoin fee nonetheless requires a taxable Bitcoin or Ethereum payment transaction to maneuver on-chain.
The debate has spilled into public view, most notably in a March 2026 trade between Block CEO Jack Dorsey and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong over whether or not Bitcoin was being actively excluded from de minimis discussions. Dorsey has been clear about what he believes is at stake, telling the Presidio Bitcoin podcast final 12 months: “I think it has to be payments for it to be relevant on the everyday… if it doesn’t transition to payments and find that everyday use case, it just gets increasingly irrelevant. And that’s failure to me.”
“We see it with our clients all the time where they would love to spend their Bitcoin to further a circular Bitcoin economy, but the tax reporting requirements in place make this overburdensome for the masses, and therefore they still tend to only spend dollars,” mentioned Jordan Guess, co-founder of Bitcoin for Monetary Providers. He added that, “We would like to see a free market decide what money they deem best to spend, without having the government favor one currency over another with the burden of self-tracking and reporting transactions on a decentralized Bitcoin ledger.”
The occasion is produced in partnership with Block, the Bitcoin Coverage Institute, and BTC Inc., with sponsorship from Satoshi Pacioli Accounting, Bitcoin Effectively, and Falcon Rappaport & Berkman. TFTC will livestream the total program on its YouTube channel at youtube.com/@TFTC. Attendees will depart with a concrete name to motion — together with a unified script for contacting their representatives and a pointer to btcismoney.xyz because the organizing hub for the broader effort.
Registration for in-person attendance is open at luma.com/sy4ghp9o. Distant viewers can tune in by way of TFTC on YouTube at 10:00 AM PT on April 28. With the 2026 legislative window narrowing and Congress turning its consideration to the midterms, the coalition’s message is pressing: “the path to Bitcoin functioning as everyday money in the United States runs through de minimis tax reform, and it runs through this Congress.”
