2019-10-16 14:30 |
Bermuda announced Wednesday it will accept payments in the USDC stablecoin "for taxes, fees and other government services." origin »
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Liechtenstein's Prime Minister has said he wants citizens to be able to pay for government services with Bitcoin. The post Liechtenstein Prime Minister Wants Citizens to Pay for Government Services With Bitcoin appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-5-8 19:31 | |
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Ernst and Young (EY), one of the largest professional services firms in the world, has developed a distributed ledger technology (DLT) based public finance management solution named EY OpsChain Public Finance Manager (PFM) to curb misappropriation of funds by government and foster efficiency and transparency, according to a press release on October 16, 2019.
2019-10-16 16:00 | |
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Global financial services company Circle announced that Bermuda became the first government to accept its stablecoin USDC for tax payments
2019-10-16 14:33 | |
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The world is coming to recognize that a VPN is a necessity. It seems every big company is trying to get your personal data (with or without permission), and every government is trying to spy on you or control what you can do online.
2019-10-7 16:23 | |
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Zimbabwe is once again showing the need to take away from politicians the power to control normal people’s money. The government there is now trying to cope with the results of mismanaging the economy by preventing citizens from using their fiat currency as they see fit.
2019-10-3 17:55 | |
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As ShapeShift manged to be the first company to gain the SEC’s permission for offering crypto-based services, the company’s CEO and Founder Erik Voorhees has been open about discussing government’s involvement in this space.
2019-9-27 08:52 | |
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Bitcoin Press Release: October 10th, 2019 will see the Bratislava Castle host the 2019 BLOCKWALKS European Conference. This year the conference looks at the many ways in which blockchain technology will improve Government Administrations, and the lives of its citizens.
2019-9-23 11:35 | |
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The provider of the most used messaging app in Japan, LINE, has been awarded a crypto exchange lincense by the Japanese government. According to CoinDesk, the company which boasts of about 80 million users per month will now be able to provide crypto exchange services to its clients. The crypto trading platform will referred as […]
2019-9-7 02:02 | |
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Indian crypto exchanges are innovating, launching new products and improving services for their users, despite the country’s regulatory uncertainty and unresolved banking restrictions. Meanwhile, the Indian crypto community continues its efforts to convince the government that the draft bill to ban cryptocurrencies is flawed, calling for positive regulation instead.
2019-9-4 11:05 | |
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Bitcoin miners in China already have to deal with a government that wants to stamp out their industry. Add to that natural disasters such as flooding and landslides, and they have a full plate to contend with.
2019-8-21 14:15 | |
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Russia, ruled by Vladimir Putin‘s arguably authoritarian regime, wants to leverage blockchain technology to host Moscow‘s administrative services and boost transparency. Essentially, the government is looking for a contractor to build an Ethereum-based system to host the issuance of property ownership documents, the allocation of slots at farmer markets, and wait for it: a voting platform which enables Moscow residents to have their say on matters such as locations for new bike paths, street decoration, and city events, CoinDesk reports.
2019-8-15 15:03 | |
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Seoul, has taken this love for crypto a step further. The city is launching an S-coin based reward system for citizens using public services.
2019-8-8 23:15 | |
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The Seoul Metropolitan Government will establish its first blockchain-based administrative services in November.
2019-8-7 22:00 | |
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The Indian government has blocked all communication channels including mobile networks, internet, broadband, and landlines since last night in some parts of the northern state of Jammu & Kashmir.
2019-8-5 11:58 | |
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Malta is one of the most crypto-friendly and blockchain-friendly regions in the world, so it should come as no surprise that the national business registry (MBR) is making changes in favor of these industries.
2019-8-2 23:29 | |
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The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), a non-profit trade association made up of firms in India’s information technology and business process outsourcing industry, has kicked against the government’s move to make bitcoin trading as well as transactions involving other blockchain-based digital assets illegal, reports LiveMint on July 30, 2019.
2019-7-31 11:00 | |
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India’s trade association for the information technology sector has criticized a proposal by a government committee to ban cryptocurrencies, Business Standard reports. According to the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), regulations for the cryptocurrency sector are preferable to a ban.
2019-7-30 16:07 | |
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The government of Australia wants to ban cash payments for goods and services exceeding 10,000 AUD ($6,900). Interestingly, it excludes digital currency, such as Bitcoin, from the restrictions, arguing that if the regulations cover crypto assets, they would also limit innovation.
2019-7-30 02:00 | |
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On July 23, U. S. Attorney General William Barr gave a speech demanding big players in the tech industry work with government agencies in providing backdoor entry points for encrypted devices and software.
2019-7-29 02:15 | |
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Even as WhatsApp readies to launch its mobile payment service in India later this year, the government is concerned about its privacy and security ramifications. “Indian authorities are concerned that WhatsApp‘s payment service might share user data with group companies Facebook and Instagram, compromising the security, privacy and non-commercial information of its subscribers,” according to a report from the Economic Times.
2019-7-26 09:40 | |
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Circle announced today that it will be expanding its regulated services to Bermuda, using its new position in the island nation to service its global audience. Circle cited Bermuda’s pro-crypto regulatory environment as a primary motivation for expanding to the island nation.
2019-7-22 22:15 | |
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Coinspeaker Japan to Begin Developing SWIFT-like Network for International Cryptocurrency PaymentsJapanese government to create a network similar to SWIFT, for international cryptocurrency payments.
2019-7-18 16:44 | |
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In what can only be interpreted as a crackdown on the growth of digital assets in the United States, the House Financial Services Committee’s Democratic majority is currently circulating a new proposal for discussion.
2019-7-16 20:08 | |
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The nation of Cuba has formally announced plans to utilize cryptocurrency on an international scale, and one resident couldn’t be happier. John McAfee, who is currently hiding out somewhere in Havana, praised the decision by the Cuban government and offered his help.
2019-7-4 03:30 | |
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The Indian government is reportedly planning to build its own WhatsApp-like chat platform to facilitate secure communications for government agencies, according to news outlet Economic Times. The move is meant to reduce the country’s reliance on US technology companies, and ensure that all communication and data transmitted over the service will be stored locally in the country.
2019-6-27 14:22 | |
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India has been surrounded by a smog of uncertainty, with the status of digital assets being hotly debated in the country. While the government and the Supreme Court’s decision in the ‘Crypto vs.
2019-6-27 09:44 | |
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Georgia’s government has signed an MoU with blockchain technology firm IOHK to implement blockchain-enabled projects across business, education and government services
2019-6-18 16:13 | |
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Blockchain dev company IOHK to collaborate with Georgian government - CryptoNinjas 3rd generation blockchain research and development company, IOHK today has signed an MoU with the Georgian government.
2019-6-17 11:11 | |
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Ten federal officials introduced a draft bill with the Chamber of Deputies in Brazil. If passed, public administrations would have to use emerging technologies to improve public services. As blockchain technology grows in its use cases, governments around the world are making sure to capitalize on it.
2019-6-13 14:00 | |
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While strong opposition from government bodies has crippled cryptocurrency’s adoption in the past, the recent involvement of non-financial companies leveraging crypto has been a differentiator for future users.
2019-6-10 20:30 | |
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Overstock subsidiary Medici Land Governance has signed a memorandum of understanding with Liberia to help the African nation digitize government services
2019-6-11 17:19 | |
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The iconic camera brand that originally entered the cryptosphere with its KODAKCoin has now launched Kodak Services for Business, which will offer storage for sensitive documents for businesses and government agencies and relies on blockchain tech to provide efficiency and security.
2019-6-7 19:18 | |
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By CCN: According to self-declared Bitcoin creator Craig Wright, everyone who runs a Lightning node, uses privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero, or uses mixing services like CashShuffle will be guilty of money laundering and eventually suffer the brutal legal consequences.
2019-6-5 19:15 | |
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The accusation that bitcoin is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is perhaps the oldest, longest-standing criticism of the digital bearer asset. The basic idea is that there is nothing of value here and the entire purpose of bitcoin’s existence is to enrich Satoshi Nakamoto and the speculators who bought in for a few pennies or dollars in the early days by tricking others into buying in at a higher price.
2019-6-4 19:03 | |
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Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the African continent. Through Bitcoin, millions of unbanked Africans will have access to financial services. These and many more such statements exist across the internet.
2019-6-1 21:48 | |
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has published an update on how it intends to regulate crypto-related businesses and initial coin offerings (ICOs).
2019-6-1 19:04 | |
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U. S. citizen Morgan Rockcoons has been sentenced to fines and prison time for running unlicensed money exchange services on LocalBitcoins. Advertising himself on the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network, Rockcoons made more than 1,000 transactions with hundreds of different users.
2019-6-1 18:55 | |
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If you’re living in Germany, you should be careful about what you’re texting. Because according to Spiegel Online, the country’s Federal Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, wants encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp and Telegram to provide chat logs in plain text to the authorities.
2019-5-29 12:19 | |
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Things you can buy with bitcoin: AT&T’s services, airfare, pretty much anything using gift cards through Bitrefill, pizza, drugs (duh) and now, Indigenous Australian art.
2019-5-29 23:15 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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Kaspar Korjus, the Founding Managing Director of Estonia’s e-Residency program, shared his futuristic vision on how to get nation states to digitize with attendees of TNW2019 today. The private sector has set the pace for technological transformation, and Korjus thinks it’s time for nation states to catch up.
2019-5-9 19:35 | |
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Kaspar Korjus, the Founding Managing Director of Estonia’s e-Residency program, shared his futuristic vision on how to get nation states to digitize with attendees of TNW2019 today. The private sector has set the pace for technological transformation, and Korjus thinks it’s time for nation states to catch up.
2019-5-9 19:35 | |
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WeChat, the #1 messaging app in China, is also widely used for cryptocurrency transactions. Recently, WeChat Payment has revised the “WeChat Agreement for Payment Service,” which involves the control and regulation of illegal transactions, including cryptocurrency transactions.
2019-5-9 22:54 | |
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Blockchain investment and implementation continue to increase in financial services but also across multiple other sectors including technology, life sciences, media, telecommunications and government.
2019-5-8 23:12 | |
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Wall Street Market, the second-largest darknet market in the world in recent months, has been shut down by international law enforcement agencies, including Europol as well as U.
2019-5-4 22:03 | |
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Forbes reported that Ethereum and Cardano co-founder, Charles Hoskinson, has announced the launch of an enterprise blockchain framework in collaboration with the government of Ethiopia. Financial Services for Africa’s Unbanked Charles Hoskinson is launching “Atala,” an enterprise blockchain framework that aims to provide financial services to billions living in African countries.
2019-5-2 09:00 | |
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The U.S. government has sued two individuals in connection with a scheme to provide "shadow banking" services to unregulated crypto exchanges.
2019-5-1 22:21 | |
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The latest edition of “Targeting scams,” an annual report released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed that the country saw a 190 percent increase in cryptocurrency scams, with a total of $6.
2019-4-30 20:07 | |
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Andrei Poliakov is the CEO and co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s premier digital currency platforms. His company is the first in Canada to partner with a government municipality.
2019-4-23 17:42 | |
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Circle’s Jeremy Allaire has criticized an SEC rule that he says creates financial disincentives for banks to adopt or hold crypto. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire believes a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule is making it harder for financial institutions…
Swiss AMINA Bank has waived custody fees for USDC holders, offering quarterly rewards and asset protection to boost stablecoin adoption. Crypto-friendly AMINA Bank (formerly SEBA Bank) has removed custody fees for its USD Coin (USDC) Stablecoin Rewards Account clients in…
Brazilian neobank Nubank has launched a fixed 4% annual return for USDC holders, making the feature available to all crypto wallet users. The largest digital bank in Latin America, with more than 85 million customers in Brazil and 6 million…
Bitcoin has faced a rollercoaster of price action over the past few days, hitting an all-time high last Tuesday before succumbing to a sharp 15% correction. The recent volatility has sparked a mix of uncertainty and opportunity among market participants.
Сообщество Polygon оценит предложение об использовании для получения прибыли более $1,3 млрд резервов в DAI, USDC и USDT. Последние заблокированы на связывающем PoS Chain и Ethereum мосту.
Ethena Labs announced the launch of its synthetic USDe stablecoin on Dec. 16, 2024, as the token's market cap reached $5.73 billion, an all-time high.
Binance will adopt USDC into its corporate treasury and make the stablecoin more widely available to its 240 million users Circle will help Binance build relationships across the finance and commerce landscape Circle’s USDC is compliant with stablecoin regulations in Europe and Canada Binance and Circle have entered a partnership designed to boost the adoption […] The post Circle and Binance team up to boost global USDC adoption appeared first on CoinJournal.