The Senate Banking committee yesterday held a hearing on Digital Currencies and how they should be regulated. Well hear from witnesses from a Financial Services company, the Congressional Research service, and a law professor. This is about an hour and 25 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Last congress, this Committee Held two hearings examining the Digital Currency ecosystem. In those hearings we heard about some of the development that is have occurred within the Digital Currency marketplace since the creation of bitcoin in 2008. The potential benefits of Digital Currencies and the concerns about the value stability, fraud, and illicit uses, market manipulation, and privacy. Since then, facebook announced its intentions to launch a block chain system, lee bra, that will be comprised of financial and nonfinancial members including facebooks digital wallet service. Facebook including how they interact with u. S. And International Regulatory frameworks, the potential benefits an