{"id":723033,"date":"2026-04-21T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/code-is-functional-free-speech-under-the-first-amendment-coin-center\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:00:28","slug":"code-is-functional-free-speech-under-the-first-amendment-coin-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/code-is-functional-free-speech-under-the-first-amendment-coin-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Code is \u2018functional\u2019 free speech under the First Amendment: Coin Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDQvMDE5ZGFkNzMtMzJjOS03OGY3LWJjNzAtMTAxMDgxNjhjZWY0LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Code is \u2018functional\u2019 free speech under the First Amendment: Coin Center\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<p>Crypto software developers are concerned about whether they could be held criminally liable for publishing their software, following high-profile convictions last year.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto lobby Coin Center has expanded on its argument that software code is free speech and should be protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution, amid continued uncertainty over whether crypto developers could be liable for how their inventions are used.<\/p>\n<p>In a report published Monday, Coin Center Executive Director Peter Van Valkenburgh and Director of Research Lizandro Pieper <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.coincenter.org\/software-is-speech-why-regulators-cannot-invent-the-missing-middlemen\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coincenter.org\/software-is-speech-why-regulators-cannot-invent-the-missing-middlemen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> writing and publishing crypto software code is the same as writing a book or publishing a recipe.<\/p>\n<p>The pair argued that the First Amendment, which <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/amendment-1\/\" href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/amendment-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">protects<\/a> individuals&#8217; freedom of speech and expression, offers strict constitutional protection for developers who only publish and maintain software.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Crypto lobby Coin Center has expanded on its argument that software code is free speech and should be protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution, amid continued uncertainty over whether crypto&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":723034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2026-04\/019dad73-32c9-78f7-bc70-10108168cef4.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}