Paul Goitia

New Hampshire Just Made It Illegal For Its Own Government To Touch Your Crypto New Hampshire enrolled HB639, formally titled the Blockchain Basic Laws, on July 1, making it the most comprehensive state-level digital asset protection framework in the country, prohibiting any state agency or local government from restricting residents from using digital assets to buy goods and services, from running self-custody wallets, from operating blockchain nodes or staking on any network, and from mining at home as long as standard local noise ordinances are followed, with the added protection that neither miners nor stakers will be classified as securities issuers under state law, stripping the Bureau of Securities of authority it previously held over those activities. The law didn't arrive in a vacuum. New Hampshire was already the first US state to authorize its treasurer to allocate up to 5% of public funds into digital assets including Bitcoin (BTC) in 2025, and HB639 builds directly on that foundation by extending protections beyond state investment into the everyday on-chain activity of its residents, creating a blockchain dispute docket for legal resolution of smart contract and digital asset disagreements, and signaling that the state views regulatory clarity as an economic advantage worth legislating aggressively, even as critics within the Department of State flagged that stripping the securities bureau of oversight authority over mining and staking could leave retail investors with fewer formal protections if something goes wrong.#NHHB639ProtectsDigitalAssetSelfCustody $ETH , $BTC , $SOL