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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…
2025-3-19 15:44 | |
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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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Authorities of New Zealand have decided that getting wages in Bitcoin and other crypto is legitimate and should be taxed similar to regular fiat salaries
2019-8-12 15:33 | |
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New Zealand‘s tax authorities have deemed it legal for companies to pay its employees in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Companies will also be able to deduct income taxes using current PAYE (pay as you earn) frameworks under the Income Tax Act 2007.
2019-8-12 14:02 | |
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As per an all-new report released by a media outlet called BlockTV yesterday, an investor (whose identity is not known at this time) has issued a lawsuit against Israeli bank Hapoalim (worth approximately $22.
2019-8-10 18:22 | |
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Yesterday saw the release of ‘What Bitcoin Did’ podcaster, Peter McCormack’s legal defence against Craig Wright. Wright sued McCormack for libel over tweets suggesting that he wasn’t really Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
2019-8-10 13:00 | |
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Bitcoin has been declared legal property in China after a court ruling by the Hangzhou Internet Court. The declaration was made following an injunction on a legal dispute between crypto… The post Chinese Court Says Bitcoin is Legal Property, Regulatory Hurdles Still Exist appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-8-8 16:35 | |
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A new database called the Blockchain Litigation Database is making easier for law firms to provide legal services to crypto-sector clients concerned about compliance issues with the SEC and CFTC.
2019-8-7 23:12 | |
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If you’re trying to launder money, don’t use Bitcoin. Elliptic, a British company providing blockchain monitoring solutions for regulatory compliance, has teamed up with researchers from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab to create a public dataset of legal and illegal Bitcoin transactions.
2019-8-4 18:21 | |
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Craig Wright’s legal campaign continues to experience turbulence, with a UK court dealing a devastating blow to the self-declared Bitcoin creator’s quest to use the strong arm of the law to unsully his less-than-stellar-reputation.
2019-8-1 23:02 | |
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According to an official statement released by Blockstream on July 29, Tether (USDT) will be now issued on Bitcoin’s sidechain Liquid Network under the name Liquid USDt, which is already available to be deposited or withdrawn on the Bitfinex exchange.
2019-7-30 15:00 | |
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Monday’s judgment in the legal tussle between the New York Attorney General (NYAG) and Bitfinex might have some short-term effect on the Bitcoin price. All Eyes on Monday’s Trial Outcome As previously reported by Bitcoinist, the Supreme Court of the State of New York will resume hearing on the case between the NYAG and bitcoin exchange platform Bitfinex on Monday (July 29, 2019).
2019-7-29 17:00 | |
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Ethereum cofounder Joseph Lubin was recently summoned to court in New York when a former employee initiated a lawsuit for more than $13 million. According to the summons stemming from former Token Foundry CEO, Harrison Hines, relief was being sought for alleged unpaid profits, fraud, unjust enrichment, and breach of contract.
2019-7-25 17:00 | |
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Iran’s government has given the green light to a cryptocurrency mining mechanism, thus recognizing the Bitcoin and crypto industry, local media portal TehranTimes reported on Monday, citing news agency Mehr.
2019-7-23 14:00 | |
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Mexican bitcoin exchange Bitso gets Gibraltar DLT license » CryptoNinjas Bitso, a Mexican based and Latin American bitcoin exchange, has announced that coming up on August 1, 2019, the custody, as well as the sending, withdrawal, and trading of cryptocurrencies, will be regulated by the Distributed Ledger Technology Regulatory Framework of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC).
2019-7-23 17:53 | |
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China is not a bitcoin-friendly country as it has taken a slew of measures to kill the flagship cryptocurrency, which include imposing a blanket ban on all initial coin offerings (ICO) and shuttering crypto exchanges.
2019-7-20 13:48 | |
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Bitcoin will remain legal in India while the government works on regulations, a minister has said in new positive comments on the fate of the industry. Finance Minister: Bitcoin Regulations Coming Responding to a request for clarity on the state’s view of cryptocurrency, Anurag Thakur, India’s Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs, firmly denied any token was illegal.
2019-7-19 10:59 | |
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A court in Hangzhou, China, upheld Bitcoin’s status as “virtual property. ” The ruling reaffirms that Bitcoin is legal to own in China and indicates to holders that they will be protected by the country’s legal system in disputes.
2019-7-19 06:26 | |
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Markets are up today with good regulatory vibes following positive reactions from a number of American Senators who successfully distinguished Bitcoin from the much-maligned Libra. Traders witnessed Bitcoin jumping 10% in about an hour, a leap similar to that seen at the beginning of the bull rally back in April of this year.
2019-7-20 02:54 | |
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Markets are up today with good regulatory vibes following positive reactions from a number of American Senators who successfully distinguished Bitcoin from the much-maligned Libra. Traders witnessed Bitcoin jumping 10% in about an hour, a leap similar to that seen at the beginning of the bull rally back in April of this year.
2019-7-19 02:54 | |
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Based on the legal precedence surrounding cryptographic communication, it is highly unlikely that the U. S. government can ban bitcoin. ‘Uncle Sam’ Can’t Shut Down Bitcoin With the storm of attention being paid to Facebook’s Libra project, there has been some talk of whether such attention could spill over to BTC in the form of a government-sanctioned bitcoin ban.
2019-7-17 18:30 | |
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The market for crypto-trading platforms is changing at an incredible speed. Regulators' pressure, changes in the regulatory environment, cyber-attacks, Bitcoin rate fluctuation, unscrupulous attempts to wind up trading volume to attract ICO, and now IEO-projects, all these contribute to changes in the balance of power in the crypto market.
2019-7-16 11:59 | |
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Bitcoin Magazine ING Deutschland Opens Retail Access to Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Products One of Germany’s largest retail banks has started offering retail clients access to bitcoin-linked exchange-traded notes.
Germany’s second-largest bank, DZ Bank, has taken a decisive step into the digital asset market by approving Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading. The approval comes after DZ Bank received authorisation under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, known as MiCAR.
Lawmakers previously proposed a $19 billion Bitcoin reserve. Countries like Germany, Pakistan, and the Philippines are reviewing similar plans. Brazil’s Drex CBDC could support future digital reserve systems.
The AfD party is urging Germany to treat Bitcoin as a strategic national asset. The AfD Bitcoin reserve motion seeks MiCA exemption and clear, favorable tax rules. AfD is pushing Bitcoin as “state-free money” to boost sovereignty.
Arkham’s findings suggest a second, unseized Bitcoin stash from Movie2K may still be under suspect control.
The custody project builds on Deutsche Bank’s past blockchain initiatives.
Global banking institutions are stepping deeper into crypto, and among them, Germany’s Deutsche Bank is laying out timelines for launching its new services. According to a Tuesday Bloomberg report, the Frankfurt-based institution is gearing up to launch its crypto custody…