Subcommittees of said Congress of the United States will carry out audience next week to discuss applications of blockchain technology.

This audience, which receives the name "Beyond Bitcoin: emerging applications for blockchain technology" will be this date February 14 at 10:00 AM. The Subcommittee on Supervision, as well as the Research and Technology Subcommittee, several belonging to the Space, Science and Technology Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, will participate in the discussion.

The objective of the audience has not been explicitly specified, it is crucial to bear in mind that the Supervision subcommittee has the power to allocate resources to projects under development. It remains open the possibility that the Congress will start a project to approach the technology that supports cryptoactive as they have thought.

They will have the presence of Charles Romine director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); as well as Jerry Cuomo, IBM's blockchain vice president; Chris Jaikaran, analyst at the Congressional Research Service; and Aaron Wright, associate professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School.

In this month of February it would be the second opportunity in which an organism of the government of the United States discusses something referring to the cryptocurrencies and blockchain. On February 5, the Committee on Banking, Housing and Senate Affairs received the chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commission of Trade of Futures of Products (CTFC) of the United States so that said commissions could carry out positions with respect to cryptocurrencies.

The clarification of Christopher Giancarlo president of the CTFC was highlighted in this meeting, who specified that since 2015 cryptocurrencies are a product or commodity for the institution, which is why they have no regulatory jurisdiction over platforms that carry out cash transactions.

These statements of February 5 show that there is still a certain distrust on the part of the authorities towards the cryptoactives. The attitude towards blockchain technology seems to enjoy greater receptivity, despite being so linked to cryptocurrencies.