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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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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Bulk Trader is a Blockchain powered Online Marketplace Platform dedicated to B2B sales and services. Bulk Trader is a unique hyperlocal ecommerce platform with creative digital marketing solutions for accredited vendors & buyers for goods in bulk.
2019-4-21 11:03 | |
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U. S. Department of the Treasury, has imposed its first-ever penalty on a peer-to-peer crypto exchange for violating AML regulations, among other violations.
2019-4-20 23:38 | |
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India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has unveiled its framework for a fintech regulatory sandbox. While blockchain and smart contracts are welcomed, the bank stated that cryptocurrency and related services “may not be accepted for testing.
2019-4-19 09:31 | |
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Offering competitive trading conditions and a wide range of services to satisfy the needs of demanding clients as they evolve The Chinese cryptocurrency exchange industry experienced a hard blow in 2017 when the government introduced a blanket ban on cryptocurrencies […] The post Challenging Veteran Chinese Cryptocurrency Exchanges at Utomarket appeared first on CoinMarketCap.
2019-4-18 16:30 | |
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Bittrex, a United States–based cryptocurrency exchange platform, has issued a response to the recent setback in its plans to expand to New York. Yesterday, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) rejected the exchange's BitLicense application, a requirement for offering crypto-based services to New Yorkers.
2019-4-12 19:57 | |
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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.
2019-4-11 02:45 | |
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The Pakistani government will now regulate local cryptocurrency firms under new legislation. Local news outlet The Express Tribune reported that the government of Pakistan will introduce Electronic Money Institutions (EMI) regulations based on the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
2019-4-2 01:33 | |
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As part of their latest investigative efforts, Canadian law enforcement authorities have frozen the assets owned by the founders of blockchain services company Vanbex. These efforts are in line with the probes that have been carried out by the government agency since 2017— when the aforementioned firm was able to raise a whopping $22 million […]
2019-4-1 18:05 | |
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Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.
2019-3-29 18:20 | |
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Binance has partnered with Medici Ventures’ portfolio company IdentityMind, a risk management and regulatory-technology compliance platform, in a bid to enhance its fraud protection and compliance protocols.
2019-3-28 18:08 | |
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Quedex, an exchange offering crypto backed derivatives, futures and options trading, is on the brink of receiving its Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) License from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC).
2019-3-27 23:06 | |
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Bincoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency payment system that was created cryptographically which run on an open source software and it is not being controlled by any entity. The Bincoin cryptocurrency payment system is not govern by any government or bank.
2019-3-22 01:44 | |
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The AVAX treasury company must hold a $1 closing bid and $35 million listed-securities value threshold for at least 10 consecutive business days. The post Nasdaq puts $675 million Avalanche Treasury on the clock over two listing failures appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Most traders assume depegs are slow. They are not. Inside the 30 second window where arbitrage bots, liquidation cascades, and oracle lag collide to turn a minor price slip into a systemic event. The popular explanation of a stablecoin depeg…
Travala launches Travel MCP in order to enable users to search and book 2.2M+ hotels through Claude AI with gasless USDC payments and user-controlled approvals.
The uncollateralized receivable runs to 2028, while an Aug. 6 sensitivity puts market value 24.5% below company-calculated NAV. The post Inside the uncollateralized deal that locked up 6 million SUI until 2028 while SUI Group trades at a 25% NAV discount appeared first on CryptoSlate.
At 10:47 a.m. ET, LRC-USD was still limit-only while 74% of displayed volume sat on four outside venues. The post Coinbase is pulling Loopring trading today – finding a safe place to sell LRC tokens is getting complicated appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Aug. 7 is the final spending day; cardholders should finish withdrawals, rewards claims and wallet-access steps before the later date. The post If you use a Cypher or Osmosis card, your spending dies tonight and unbacked wallets could go with it appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Связанный с сооснователем криптобиржи BitMEX и главой инвестфонда Maelstrom Артуром Хейсом (Arthur Hayes) кошелек приобрел 10,9 млн токенов ENA на $985 000. Сделка прошла на децентрализованной площадке Paraswap, сообщили аналитики блокчейн-сервиса Lookonchain.