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Bitcoin in the Czech central bank’s reserves is uncertain after a senior official flags legal and volatility concerns. A debate over Bitcoin’s (BTC) place in Czech central bank reserves still lingers with board member Jan Kubicek voicing skepticism citing legal… origin »
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German Bundestag member Joana Cotar advocates for Bitcoin's recognition as a legal tender, aiming to balance innovation with regulatory security.
2023-11-18 19:31 | |
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Read this article to know why El Salvador and the Central African Republic (CAR) have adopted Bitcoin as a legal tender.
2022-8-13 17:00 | |
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A slew of guests discuss the historic one-year anniversary of President Nayib Bukele announcing El Salvador’s plan to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
2022-6-16 10:00 | |
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The impoverished country has launched an ambitious crypto project that includes using Bitcoin as legal tender, attracting investment and creating its own metaverse.
2022-6-4 20:30 | |
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The African country has become the second nation in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal currency.
2022-4-27 17:26 | |
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The oldest digital currency in the crypto market by Market Cap – Bitcoin, yet to become a legal tender in many countries. However, with the rising crypto market, smaller countries began to accept The post Bitcoin a legal tender in Arizona? Here's why that will be a tough nut to crack appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-1-29 16:30 | |
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Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Block, has announced plans to form Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization that would offer Bitcoin developers legal protection. Dorsey suggested this idea through an email he sent to the Bitcoin Developer’s mailing list earlier today.
2022-1-14 23:02 | |
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Aureo Ribeiro, a member of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, prepared a bill that recognizes bitcoin as a legal tender, and also toughens the fight against cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes.
2021-10-9 20:46 | |
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On September 7, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make Bitcoin a legal tender, granting the leading cryptocurrency legal currency status. The move made headlines across all prominent media outlets, prompting many to wonder if this would be the start of a trend.
2021-9-14 13:54 | |
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Young adults strongly support the idea of making bitcoin legal tender in the United States at 44%, while baby boomers think it’s a bad idea at 43%.
2021-9-11 19:48 | |
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The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), which has 15 member countries, will help El Salvador implement bitcoin as legal tender. The CABEI president has expressed his support. “We’re very optimistic,” he said.
2021-6-17 04:00 | |
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The International Monetary Fund has faulted El Salvador’s decision to accept Bitcoin (BTC/USD) as a legal tender, explaining that there could be legal implications on the country’s decision.
2021-6-11 12:27 | |
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The dispute over the legal ownership of the Bitcoin whitepaper could make it all the way to the courts as one website owner refuses to back down from Craig Wright's legal threats.
2021-1-22 21:00 | |
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UK bitcoin exchange company CoinCorner, announced today it recently partnered with Quinn Legal, to assist them in becoming the first Isle of Man law firm to offer bitcoin as a payment method for legal fees.
2020-1-21 13:37 | |
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Bitpanda, an Austrian-based bitcoin/crypto exchange company, which last summer expanded operations outside of the EU, announced today Oliver Stauber has joined Bitpanda’s C suite as its new Chief Legal Officer.
2020-1-15 00:54 | |
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On Jan. 6, Wright’s legal team produced a third, confidential Tulip Trust document in a lot of 428 new documents. The Kleiman estate requested a 10-day extension for Wright to provide redactions of the document, which caused Bitcoin SV to jump over 30 percent in one day.
2020-1-11 22:57 | |
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Bitcoin SV, a somewhat controversial hard fork of Bitcoin Cash, has suddenly spiked by as much as 17% intraday following legal developments in the Craig Wright legal battle with the late David Kleiman.
2020-1-10 19:00 | |
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The price of Bitcoin SV (BSV) surged by a massive 28 percent on Friday as traders assessed a key development in the ongoing legal dispute involving founder Craig Wright. The self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator submitted a total of 428 documents to the plaintiffs, one of them allegedly including details of a trust that holds billions of... The post appeared first on NewsBTC.
2020-1-10 18:27 | |
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Craig S. Wright furnished documents on Jan. 6, 2020, citing the existence of a third Tulip Trust, which holds the alleged 1,100,111 Bitcoin. A Garden of Tulip Trusts Along with the document which reveals the existence of yet another Tulip Trust, Wright, and his legal team have supplied Florida courts with over 400 new materials […] The post Craig S.
2020-1-11 16:47 | |
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On a day of largely-stagnant price action in the cryptocurrency market, one major digital asset is moving out of sync with the overall sideways trend. Bitcoin SV traded earlier today at around $116 but, suddenly, pumped to a local high of over $128.
2020-1-10 15:46 | |
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Jake Chervinksy, the General Counsel at Compound Finance has made a number of predictions for the Bitcoin. Although they are pretty generic what with the Bitcoin halving to occur and numbers to go up significantly which could either be before the halving or after, he sees stock-to-flow proponents to “claim victory.” The stock-to-flow model was […]
2020-1-5 23:15 | |
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The high profile billion dollar bitcoin lawsuit, Kleiman v. Wright, has continued into the new year. The Kleiman estate’s legal team filed for a protective order to prevent the deposition of Wright’s ex-wife on January 13, 2020.
2020-1-4 04:45 | |
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This article considers the legal implications of Youtube’s notorious purge of crypto channels on Christmas Eve. What legal context induces Youtube and other social media giants to operate as they do? The article does not explore whether it is morally proper to terminate a contract without cause or explanation and to threaten people’s livelihoods; it […] The post Was Youtube’s Christmas Crypto Purge Illegal? appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-1-3 22:50 | |
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A phenomenon like bitcoin can gain recognition, including regulatory, in many different and often unexpected ways. Governments that hesitate to accept cryptocurrencies as legal tender, sometimes validate their existence indirectly and even acknowledge they can be used for payments.
2019-12-26 12:15 | |
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The legal dispute between bitcoin miner Ebang and Chinese public firm Wholeasy reflects the prolonged magnitude of last year's market sell-off.
2019-12-23 12:00 | |
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The Governor Lael Brainard, of the US Federal Reserve on Wednesday stated Facebook’s digital currency project Libra faces a “core set of legal and regulatory challenges.” Social media giant’s stablecoin that is linked to fiat money and other sound assets to mitigate fluctuations in the price of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, remains unproven with a vague […]
2019-12-18 21:12 | |
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STOKR, a European marketplace for issuing tokenized digital shares, today announced that they will support Blockstream’s Liquid Securities platform. This will enable companies to issue shares on the Liquid Network, a Bitcoin sidechain, under the legal certainty of the EU capital market laws.
2019-12-17 20:24 | |
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Monetary sovereignty is the power of the state to exercise exclusive legal control over its currency but what if a person has this power within a hand's reach? Prominent BTC investor Trace Mayer said,The post Here's what could happen if Bitcoin ran MimbleWimble appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-16 00:30 | |
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned that bitcoin and digital currencies are not legal tenders but Nigerians don’t seem to care. Bitcoin Adoption Rising Despite Apex Bank, Senate Warnings In its December 2019 edition of ‘The Nigerian Banker’, the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) highlighted how bitcoin is booming in Nigeria, despite the central bank’s anti-crypto stance.
2019-12-9 22:33 | |
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On November 29th, the Central Bank of Russia came out against Bitcoin, claiming that their local ruble should be the nation’s only legal tender. While nothing has been set in stone as of yet, the Central Bank is open to banning the ability to buy goods and services with Bitcoin due to the risky nature […] The post Russian Central Bank Comes out Against Bitcoin, Would Support a Ban appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2019-12-2 12:26 | |
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The regulatory constraints that previously prohibited German banks from offering Bitcoin-related services to clients could soon become a thing of the past. New reports are coming in that once the fourth EU Money Laundering Directive comes into effect, financial institutions in Germany will have the legal and regulatory approval to offer and hold cryptocurrencies including […] The post Bitcoin Gets a Big Boost in Germany After Banks Allowed to Offer Cryptocurrencies appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2019-11-30 04:18 | |
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Cryptocurrencies might finally go hand in hand with traditional money services. Starting from 2020, it might be legal for German banks to sell cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and provide custody solutions, local media reports.
2019-11-29 23:49 | |
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A fierce legal battle is currently going on in Greece where apparently even Putin himself has personally lobbied for Aleksandr Vinnik to be extradited to Russia, rather than America or... The post $450 Million Bitcoin Taken By Russia’s FSB Alleged Leak appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-11-28 20:22 | |
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South Korea’s national policy committee has passed an amendment establishing a legal framework for cryptocurrencies. It requires crypto exchanges and service providers to register with the country’s financial regulator and comply with the recommendations set by the Financial Action Task Force.
2019-11-27 09:20 | |
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The U. K. is now the latest jurisdiction to classify cryptocurrencies and virtual assets as property. The Times reports that a legal panel chaired by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor of the High Court reached the decision which presents significant implications for the legality of cryptocurrencies and blockchain assets in the U.
2019-11-19 18:00 | |
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The Attorney General of the U. S. state of Ohio has assessed the state’s crypto program and concluded that it is a legal violation of state law. The state’s former treasurer skirted the law to launch a website that allowed 23 types of tax payments in cryptocurrency ahead of other states.
2019-11-15 19:00 | |
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The Attorney General of the U. S. state of Ohio has assessed the state’s crypto program and concluded that it is a legal violation of state law. The state’s former treasurer skirted the law to launch a website that allowed 23 types of tax payments in cryptocurrency ahead of other states.
2019-11-14 19:00 | |
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A Dutch court has recently ruled that all fraudulent ads involving Bitcoin must be removed from Facebook. The case started when the Dutch millionaire John de Mol sued the social media company. He started the process some months ago after Facebook failed to remove fake ads that used his and other celebrities’ images. According to […]
2019-11-12 02:05 | |
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John de Mol wins a lawsuit against Facebook after taking the social media monolith to court over fake Bitcoin ads
2019-11-12 20:17 | |
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LocalBitcoins, the P2P bitcoin marketplace, announced today that The Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority, FIN-FSA, has registered LocalBitcoins as an official virtual currency provider. Starting from the beginning of November 2019, only registered virtual currency providers that fulfill the legal requirements are allowed to operate in Finland.
2019-11-11 17:49 | |
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The chance to sell BTC for fiat comes with a fully transparent and legal platform.
2019-11-11 13:32 | |
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Tether announced the support of podcaster Peter McCormack in his legal defense against self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright
2019-11-9 14:13 | |
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In the latest salvo in the ongoing saga surrounding Bitmain, ousted co-founder Micree Zhan is threatening to fight back claiming to have been betrayed by his partners. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin mining giant is moving ahead with plans to launch a U.
2019-11-8 18:00 | |
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The key fundamentals of Bitcoin are security, and its characteristics of being borderless and 'un-confiscatable'. Time and again, several influencers and leaders of the crypto-space have emphasized onThe post Russia plans to introduce 'legal mechanism' to confiscate Bitcoin by 2021 appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-7 17:30 | |
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Chinese mining giant Bitmain is in the midst of a power struggle. Co-founder Micree Zhan who was ousted last week has returned with a vengeance asserting that he will use a legal team to regain control of the company.
2019-11-7 07:36 | |
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With Bitmain’s return to the limelight and Craig Wright’s appearances in continuing legal drama, old Bitcoin rivalries have been flaring up again lately: Bitcoin and its forked brethren, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV.
2019-11-6 02:48 | |
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The current legal status of Bitcoin is difficult to gauge in the United Kingdom. A new taxation guidance update shows there is still some confusion to be cleared up. At this time, cryptocurrencies are neither currencies nor securities.
2019-11-5 22:30 | |
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According to court documents, 2 men pleaded guilty in a US federal court to charges of hacking as well as extorting companies that comprised Uber and LinkedIn. This brought an end to a long legal dispute that involved data breaches.
2019-11-2 22:52 | |
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A South Korean presidential committee is pushing for the government to establish legal status for cryptocurrency to stay competitive globally. So far, the government’s policies have been risk-focused to curb speculation, which the committee says must change.
2019-10-31 18:30 | |
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South Korean prosecutors raided the headquarters of crypto exchange Bithumb on March 19 as part of an investigation into whether the company’s former CEO misused corporate funds to purchase an apartment, according to local media reports.
European Central Bank (ECB) Chief Economist Philip Lane has reiterated the need for a digital euro, emphasizing its role in mitigating risks from stablecoins and reducing reliance on US payment firms, Bloomberg News reported on March 20.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has clarified its stance on crypto mining under proof-of-work (PoW) protocols, stating that mining activities do not involve offering and selling securities.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s address at Blockworks’ Digital Assets Summit in New York is a sign of how big crypto has become in the finance space, Dan Greer, co-founder of Defi App, says. According to Greer, the president delivered a…
The launch of CFTC-regulated XRP futures in the US could enhance market integrity and foster innovation in the digital asset sector. The post First-ever CFTC-regulated XRP futures debuts in the US appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Trump's stance on crypto taxation could boost US crypto innovation, positioning the nation as a global leader in digital asset adoption. The post Trump urges Congress to pass stablecoin legislation appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
On Mar. 18, 2025, Reuters reported that various crypto companies seek to become state or national banks, which they see as an avenue for expanding their businesses under the Trump Administration. What can change for crypto companies once they become…