It’s now as much as the governor of Wyoming to place the ultimate stamp of approval on the landmark invoice.
The U.S. state of Wyoming has handed a invoice that protects its residents from having to reveal their non-public keys, with a singular exception. Having now been accepted by the state Senate and Home of Representatives, it now merely must be signed by the Governor with a purpose to take impact.
The invoice states that, “No individual shall be compelled to supply a personal key or make a personal key identified to every other individual in any civil, prison, administrative, legislative or different continuing on this state that pertains to a digital asset, digital identification or different curiosity or proper to which the non-public key supplies entry except a public secret is unavailable or unable to reveal the requisite info with respect to the digital asset, digital identification or different curiosity or proper.”
It doesn’t specify that it might be just for Bitcoin keys, so it might additionally apply the identical to non-public keys utilized as decentralized identities, or every other use instances. Wyoming has been the focal point with reference to Bitcoin adoption within the U.S. for a while, partially due to Senator Cynthia Lummis’ ardent help of Bitcoin and push for regulation throughout the nation.
Christopher Allen, web cryptography pioneer and government director of Blockchain Commons who beforehand wrote for Bitcoin Journal regarding the significance of defending non-public key sovereignty, described why Wyoming has been a groundbreaking state for such a legislature.
“[Wyoming] has an extended custom of ‘good fences make for good neighbors’… and as a small state it has a real ‘citizen’ legislature.… they resonate properly with the idea of “Self-Sovereignty” in bitcoin and digital identification,” Allen advised Bitcoin Journal.
If accepted by the governor, the invoice would take impact on July 1, 2023.