[U.S. SEC to Hold Roundtable on December 15 to Discuss Cryptocurrency Privacy Issues] The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Special Cryptocurrency Task Force has announced that it will hold a roundtable on December 15, focusing on privacy and financial monitoring issues within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The meeting will invite leaders from the crypto industry and SEC officials to jointly discuss related challenges and potential solutions. The context includes the recent partial guilty verdict of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, the sentencing of Samourai Wallet developers, and the significant price increase of privacy coins over the past two months. Additionally, Matthew Galeotti, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division, stated in August that the practice of prosecuting developers solely for writing open-source code would cease, emphasizing that writing code without malicious intent does not constitute a crime.