2023-3-17 18:07 |
Laura van Geest said she won’t undercut new EU crypto laws even if that drives business from the country. origin »
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A final vote on the law has been repeatedly pushed back, even though a deal was struck in June.
2022-12-9 17:14 | |
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In the wake of the FTX bankruptcy, many crypto companies have been affected and are looking for better alternatives to handle digital assets. Even jurisdictions are calling for regulators to be more strict on cryptocurrency to avoid a repeat of…
2022-11-18 01:45 | |
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Even though the legality of crypto in India is still a matter of debate, new crypto tax laws are already affecting businesses and individuals.
2022-11-14 17:15 | |
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Morocco has joined a growing list of countries pivoting towards drafting and passing comprehensive cryptocurrency laws, even as the adoption rate of digital assets in the North African country continues to surge.
2022-6-29 21:51 | |
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Western states are embracing digital currencies with some even considering taking tax payments in Bitcoin and other cryptos. India wants to slap a 30% tax on all gains. For the rest of the US, tax is anywhere between 10 – 37% depending on how long you hold your cryptos. The latest report shows a growing […]
2022-2-8 22:21 | |
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Uncertainty continues to derail the seemingly improving rapport between regulators and crypto leaders, even as mainstream adoption of Bitcoin, Ether, USDT, continues to buoy up. Notabene, a firm that helps crypto firms navigate through regulatory complexities recently published a 60-page report showing that uncertainty remains the biggest deterrent to achieving sound crypto laws. The report […]
2022-1-31 20:06 | |
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Pressure is mounting on the United States Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]. Since, not just fintech stakeholders, but even senators call on Congress to clear the muddied waters of crypto laws The post 'Federal agencies should answer questions' about crypto regulations, says U.S. Senator appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-12-4 11:30 | |
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To bolster its fair notice defence in a lawsuit filed by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Ripple (XRP) claims two of their sitting Commissioners have spoken out about the lack of clarity on how securities laws apply to crypto.
2021-7-24 07:00 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is renewing its efforts to impose “long overdue” rules for the registration and regulation of security-based swap execution facilities, including tokenized stocks, said Chair Gary Gensler on Wednesday.
2021-7-23 17:35 | |
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You don’t have to be a crypto novice to fall prey to a crypto scam. They’re all over the market in all kinds – and often dupe even the most experienced crypto investor. While cryptocurrency may be in the regulatory grey areas in most markets, these crypto scams are, by most laws, still illegal.
2021-3-31 17:06 | |
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After revoking licenses for many crypto firms, Estonia’s parliament is considering even stricter cryptocurrency laws.
2021-2-6 13:33 | |
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Crypto businesses in the UK are set to come under even greater scrutiny based on new plans by regulators in the country. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) continues to mandate strict compliance with financial laws for all cryptocurrency activities in the UK.
2020-8-26 23:00 | |
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Creatives have a hard time protecting their work. Writers, musicians, illustrators, and others can bitterly narrate how their masterpieces have been duplicated even with protection from Intellectual Property (IP) laws.
2020-6-5 19:00 | |
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The legal status of digital coins continues to remain doubtful in the U.S, with the country having financial laws with strict regulations in place, while even denying any permission for foreign exchanThe post United States' growing 'trade savvy' in crypto will ensure it's not left behind appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-3-22 18:30 | |
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Australian Detectives known as the ‘E-Crime Squad’ have arrested a man for providing unregistered cryptocurrency services. Authorities charged the man for breaking anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.
2019-11-12 13:20 | |
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At the University of Georgetown, The United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and it's executive Kenneth Blanco gave their views where he clarified that the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws straightforwardly apply to everybody.
2019-10-22 19:10 | |
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A major Japanese news publication has reported that crypto donations to individual politicians are legal and do not need to be reported publicly as donations. Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications verified that even though it is illegal to donate cash or securities directly to a politician or political campaign, crypto donations still fly […] The post Crypto Outpaces Political Donation Laws in Japan appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-10-7 05:30 | |
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Sailing used to be considered as a rather sedate pastime. But in the past few years, the world of yacht racing has been revolutionized by the arrival of hydrofoil-supported catamarans, known as “foilers”.
2019-10-7 00:00 | |
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Everything you assume about the universe, the laws that govern it, and how objective reality works is probably wrong. What goes up doesn’t have to come down, there’s no logical reason why we can’t travel through time, and there’s a pretty good chance that you exist as one of an infinite number of doppelgangers spread across parallel universes.
2019-9-13 23:17 | |
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French President, Emmanuel Macron, has started turning up the heat before this weekend’s G7 summit. At a press meeting yesterday, Macron stuck to France’s policy of upping taxes on big tech, calling the system which provides companies with a “permanent tax haven status” simply “crazy,” The Local reports.
2019-8-22 12:10 | |
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Even if the US pass prohibitive laws to "tame" cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin (BTC) will survive. China and India are trying only publicizing the coin's ability. The post Bitcoin (BTC) Will Survive Even If Exchanges Are Shut Down appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-7-19 17:00 | |
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Today’s Ripple (XRP) News The idea of blockchain and cryptocurrencies in general is to bring about an even play field. That doesn’t sit well with those in power. Besides, given that blockchain, dubbed the fourth industrialization, is not in isolation but must work within jurisdiction where applicable laws must be followed. The likes of China-and […]
2019-7-15 16:22 | |
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There are more than a few countries in the world where cryptocurrency is largely frowned at. China, for example, isn’t the most receptive to crypto as the government not only openly condemns it but also tries to pass laws that ensure that the growth of the cryptocurrency sector is as stifled as possible. Even though […]
2019-6-6 23:33 | |
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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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The popular peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network LocalBitcoins has shut down all trading operations for Iranian users. LocalBitcoins’ website offers a variety of pages for users of different nations and, as of May 24, 2019, the Iranian page displays a message that “LocalBitcoins is currently not available in your selected region,” in English only.
2019-5-25 20:14 | |
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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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The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
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Two Israeli citizens have been apprehended by law enforcement based on suspicions that they developed and ran a darknet marketplace for dealing illegal goods. The Israeli police announced via Twitter that it has collaborated with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to arrest two locals who they believe managed the dark web marketplace, which used bitcoin to facilitate trades.
2019-5-8 18:42 | |
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Two Israeli citizens have been apprehended by law enforcement based on suspicions that they developed and ran a darknet marketplace for dealing illegal goods. The Israeli police announced via Twitter that it has collaborated with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to arrest two locals who they believe managed the dark web marketplace, which used bitcoin to facilitate trades.
2019-5-8 18:42 | |
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Most countries around the world are scrambling to regulate Bitcoin. Some, like Bolivia, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, have even tried to outright ban it. The problem is, no matter what regulators say, there are four major reasons why Bitcoin is unbannable.
2019-4-23 20:00 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.
2019-4-19 04:03 | |
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VIMee is a social network being developed on the Waves high speed blockchain technology that supports community building and social interaction with cryptocurrency rewards. VIMee combines the simplicity of centralized social media, with the security of decentralization, and the flexibility cryptocurrency brings.
2019-4-16 17:03 | |
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Ripple prices stable below 34 cents Security laws relating to blockchain still fuzzy says, David Schwartz Transaction volumes shrinking as prices consolidate David Schwartz, the CTO of Ripple Inc, believes that existing security laws are vague and are therefore a hindrance.
2019-3-18 21:00 | |
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On March 9–10, 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a two-day event, the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019. Put together by the student-organized MIT Bitcoin Club, the conference welcomed more than just Bitcoin voices from every corner of the industry.
2019-3-15 01:08 | |
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A bill proposed by the Texas legislature will require that all receivers of cryptocurrency in regular transactions verify the identity of the cryptocurrency sender before accepting any payment.
2019-3-12 01:04 | |
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A new working group in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts launched by the state’s chief securities regulator is looking to clear up some of the murky regulation for blockchain innovators. The olive branch couldn’t have come too soon as Western U.
2019-3-11 23:45 | |
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Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.
2019-2-18 18:30 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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Given the cumbersome character of the European Union, it’s no surprise that Brussels has been slow to take even tentative steps towards crypto regulation. There is no shortage of new committees to ponder decisions and make recommendations.
2019-1-25 01:20 | |
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Whenever I claim that bitcoin is the only decentralized cryptocurrency, I get one of two arguments:My X coin is also decentralized. Bitcoin isn’t decentralized because of Core and/or miners.
2019-1-21 21:52 | |
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For investors whose first time investing in bitcoin was in 2018 or after late 2017, there is a high likelihood that they have incurred substantial losses for the fiscal year of 2018 if they haven’t sold yet.
2018-12-29 02:01 | |
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The British government has recently released a policy paper clarifying the tax laws on crypto assets. This fairly straightforward document was released on Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs’ (HRMC) website, holding a sundry list of important crypto space terms, the relevant tax codes and points of intersection between the two.
2018-12-21 23:09 | |
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A new e-mail based cryptocurrency scam discovered Community of the popular website Reddit found a new cryptocurrency-related scam that is currently being circulated on the internet. The scammer thought it wasn’t enough to break the average anti-fraud law and instead decided to try his hand at breaking a couple of anti-terrorism laws as well.
2018-12-14 01:16 | |
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For nearly a decade, participants in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space have operated in a regulatory compliance gray zone. Recent developments — at both the federal and international levels — signal that the time for plausible deniability or unregulated freedom is coming to an end and more traditional regulations are moving to the forefront.
2018-12-3 19:20 | |
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On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.
2018-12-1 22:36 | |
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Ripple’s legal team in their ongoing securities suit is attempting a new tack: to have the claim proceed at the federal level. In a move that legal commentator Jake Chervinsky described as “seriously crafty,” Ripple has filed a formal notice-of-removal motion to have their most recent securities suit, Zakinov et al v.
2018-11-14 00:41 | |
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The registration paves the way for the Switzerland and Singapore-based banking group to expand into the European Union and European Economic Area.
The European Banking Authority estimates that 15 technical standards for crypto platforms like stablecoin issuers will become official before the end of 2024.
Stripe has reportedly added support for Bitcoin and crypto purchases for its EU clients. Users can now buy crypto using Stripe-issued credit or debit cards. Stripe’s customers in the European Union can now purchase Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with credit or debit cards, according to a report by the Irish Independent.
Circle Mint France will issue the euro-denominated EURC stablecoin and USDC in the European Union in compliance with MiCA.
Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASP) in Europe would have to implement stringent Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures to combat money laundering following the European Parliament greenlight of new Anti-Money Laundering Regulations (AMLR), according to an April 24 statement.
Three consultations on relevant rules will run until Feb. 8, 2024, the European Banking Authority has said.
The crypto trading platform for EU will start in "coming weeks."