Colorado Representative Jared Polis Asks Congress to Draft Bitcoin Disclosure Guidelines

This week, Colorado House Representative Jared Polis sent a letter to the U.S. House Committee on Ethics (HCE) asking the organization to put forth statutes that require government employees to declare their Bitcoin and other digital currency holdings: “A Member or covered employee should report any virtual currency holding as they would report any other commodity, such as gold.”
In a written petition sent to the HCE dated February 5th, Jared Polis — who has