The Digital Chamber is the current name of the body founded in 2014 as the Chamber of Digital Commerce. Its own history page dates the founding to 2014 and its first Bitcoin Education Day on Capitol Hill to 29 August that year. The rename was announced on 21 March 2024, in a post that says plainly that the Chamber of Digital Commerce officially becomes The Digital Chamber.
Its tax status separates it from the two advocacy organisations it is often grouped with. The IRS lists Chamber Of Digital Commerce as a 501(c)(6) business league, tax-exempt since September 2014, EIN 47-1183361, based in Washington, D.C. Donations to it are not tax deductible. A business league is funded by member dues and exists to improve business conditions for its members, so it may lobby without limit and it represents companies, not a cause. Reading its filings and its positions with that in mind is the honest way to read them.
The organisation is not Bitcoin-only. Its stated mission covers digital assets and blockchain-based technologies generally, and its published timeline claims credit for the Blockchain Alliance in 2015, a role on the Treasury's Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group from 2018, opposition to the 2020 Treasury proposal on self-hosted wallets, amicus filings in the SEC's case against Ripple, and the 2024 passage of H.J. Res. 109. Those are the Chamber's own claims of influence, and lobbying credit is difficult to verify from outside.
Perianne Boring founded it and was its founder and chief executive, a title used on the organisation's own statements for years. The team page now lists Cody Carbone as chief executive officer.