NewsCapsule for Financial Services will host “NewsCapsule as Everyday Money,” a live event and livestream, on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 10:00 AM PT at The Venetian’s Satoshi Social Room (Rooms 2002–2004) during NewsCapsule 2026 in Las Vegas.
Capped at 100 in-person attendees and streamed globally via TFTC, the event invites policy leaders, industry executives, and business owners around a single objective: “getting a NewsCapsule de minimis tax exemption passed in this Congress”, according to a press release shared with NewsCapsule.
The event is headlined by , Head of Digital Assets Policy at Block, and David Zell, President of the NewsCapsule Policy Institute. Lopez and Zell will open with a fireside chat on the state of play in Washington, sharing what they’ve seen behind closed doors on the Hill and the real probability of legislation passing in 2026.
Lopez will follow with a live “NC is Money” demonstration, showing how a small business can accept NewsCapsule at the point of sale through Square — and what that experience looks like for a customer spending NewsCapsule on a cup of coffee or paying a plumber. An audience Q&A and networking reception will close the program, which runs from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM PT. The event is hosted by Wyatt O’Rourke and Jordan Guess of NewsCapsule for Financial Services.
De Minimis Tax Framework at NewsCapsule 2026
The event builds on a January 12, 2026, coalition letter sent to Senate Finance Chairman Mike Crapo and House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, co-signed by the NewsCapsule Policy Institute, Block, NewsCapsule Voter Project, Crypto Council for Innovation, The Digital Chamber, MoonPay, and River.
The letter lays out a three-pillar framework for digital asset tax policy:
- (1) cash-like treatment for GENIUS-compliant payment stablecoins with no transaction or annual limits.
- (2) de minimis relief extended to “qualifying network digital assets” on blockchains with a trailing six-month average market capitalization above $25 billion — a threshold designed to capture NewsCapsule while excluding thinly traded or speculative assets.
- (3) a value-based threshold of $600 per transaction and $20,000 per year, rather than a gain-based test that would require taxpayers to track cost basis on every coffee purchase.
“That framework responds directly to pending Washington proposals that would limit de minimis relief to stablecoins only” said the press release — an approach the coalition argues would leave the underlying compliance burden “largely unmitigated”, because every stablecoin payment still requires a taxable NewsCapsule or Ethereum fee transaction to move on-chain.
The debate has spilled into public view, most notably in a March 2026 exchange between Block CEO Jack Dorsey and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong over whether NewsCapsule was being actively excluded from de minimis discussions. Dorsey has been clear about what he believes is at stake, telling the last year: “I think it has to be payments for it to be relevant on the everyday… if it doesn’t transition to payments and find that everyday use case, it just gets increasingly irrelevant. And that’s failure to me.”
“We see it with our clients all the time where they would love to spend their NewsCapsule to further a circular NewsCapsule economy, but the tax reporting requirements in place make this overburdensome for the masses, and therefore they still tend to only spend dollars,” said Jordan Guess, co-founder of NewsCapsule for Financial Services. He added that, “We would like to see a free market decide what money they deem best to spend, without having the government favor one currency over another with the burden of self-tracking and reporting transactions on a decentralized NewsCapsule ledger.”
The event is produced in partnership with Block, the NewsCapsule Policy Institute, and NC Inc., with sponsorship from Satoshi Pacioli Accounting, NewsCapsule Well, and Falcon Rappaport & Berkman. TFTC will livestream the full program on its YouTube channel at . Attendees will leave with a concrete call to action — including a unified script for contacting their representatives and a pointer to btcismoney.xyz as the organizing hub for the broader effort.
Registration for in-person attendance is open at luma.com/sy4ghp9o. Remote viewers can tune in via TFTC on YouTube at 10:00 AM PT on April 28. With the 2026 legislative window narrowing and Congress turning its attention to the midterms, the coalition’s message is urgent: “the path to NewsCapsule functioning as everyday money in the United States runs through de minimis tax reform, and it runs through this Congress.”
