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“Bitcoin as Everyday Money” Event to Rally Industry Behind De Minimis Tax Framework at Bitcoin 2026
Bitcoin for Financial Services will host “Bitcoin as Everyday Money,” a live event and livestream, on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 10:00 AM PT at The Venetian’s Satoshi Social Room (Rooms 2002–2004) during Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas.
Capped at 100 in-person attendees and streamed globally via TFTC, the event invites policy leaders, industry executives, and business owners around a single objective: “getting a Bitcoin de minimis tax exemption passed in this Congress”, according to a press release shared with Bitcoin Magazine.
The event is headlined by Janessa Lopez, Head of Digital Assets Policy at Block, and David Zell, President of the Bitcoin Policy Institute. Lopez and Zell will open with a fireside chat on the state of play in Washington, sharing what they’ve seen behind closed doors on the Hill and the real probability of legislation passing in 2026.
Lopez will follow with a live “BTC is Money” demonstration, showing how a small business can accept Bitcoin at the point of sale through Square — and what that experience looks like for a customer spending Bitcoin on a cup of coffee or paying a plumber. An audience Q&A and networking reception will close the program, which runs from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM PT. The event is hosted by Wyatt O’Rourke and Jordan Guess of Bitcoin for Financial Services.
De Minimis Tax Framework at Bitcoin 2026
The event builds on a January 12, 2026, coalition letter sent to Senate Finance Chairman Mike Crapo and House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, co-signed by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, Block, Bitcoin Voter Project, Crypto Council for Innovation, The Digital Chamber, MoonPay, and River.
The letter lays out a three-pillar framework for digital asset tax policy:
(1) cash-like treatment for GENIUS-compliant payment stablecoins with no transaction or annual limits.
(2) de minimis relief extended to “qualifying network digital assets” on blockchains with a trailing six-month average market capitalization above $25 billion — a threshold designed to capture Bitcoin while excluding thinly traded or speculative assets.
(3) a value-based threshold of $600 per transaction and $20,000 per year, rather than a gain-based test that would require taxpayers to track cost basis on every coffee purchase.
“That framework responds directly to pending Washington proposals that would limit de minimis relief to stablecoins only” said the press release — an approach the coalition argues would leave the underlying compliance burden “largely unmitigated”, because every stablecoin payment still requires a taxable Bitcoin or Ethereum fee transaction to move on-chain.
The debate has spilled into public view, most notably in a March 2026 exchange between Block CEO Jack Dorsey and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong over whether Bitcoin was bei
