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| 09.10.2024 | How Crypto Reacted to HBO's Big Satoshi 'Reveal' | The history of Satoshi-sleuthing is filled with wrong turns, cul de sacs, and wild goose chases. But HBO's "MONEY ELECTRIC: THE BITCOIN MYSTERY," which aired in the United States Tuesday night, was supposed to be different. It was... |
| 01.10.2024 | The Crypto Crossroads: Trials, Tribulations, and Transitions | The world of cryptocurrency is a wild ride. It’s a landscape filled with promise and peril. Recently, two significant events have rocked this volatile terrain. A Utah judge has allowed a lawsuit against Green United to proceed, while Coin C... |
| 30.09.2024 | Founding Coin Center Chief Jerry Brito Stepping Down After Decade | The top officials at the crypto think tank Coin Center are leaving as the group celebrates its first decade.
Executive Director Jerry Brito and Senior Policy Counsel Robin Weisman are out at the end of the year, and Peter Van Valkenburgh wi... |
| 26.09.2024 | Utah Judge Rules SEC’s Case Against Alleged Crypto Mining Scam Green United Can Proceed to Trial | An SEC suit against Green United, a firm accused of scamming investors with promises of cloud mining, can proceed to trial.
Claims that crypto mining devices constitute securities are incorrect, and are based on a misinterpretation of court... |
| 26.04.2024 | Consensys, a Target for the SEC’s Assault on ETH, Is Fighting Back | Consensys, one of the main supporters of the Ethereum network, claims the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is attempting a power grab over Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest blockchain by market capitalization. And so, as natur... |
| 25.04.2024 | Samourai Wallet Charges Raise Existential Questions for Privacy Tech | The U.S. government has put to rest any doubts that any involvement in or profiting from privacy tools beyond authoring code for crypto mixers is off limits.
Call it an assault on privacy or attack on free speech, but the reality on the gro... |
| 20.04.2024 | New IRS Form Targets Comprehensive Reporting of Digital Assets | The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is currently seeking public feedback on a proposed new form, 1099-DA, which is designed to report proceeds from digital asset transactions conducted by brokers, set for introduction in 2025.
This initiativ... |
| 20.04.2024 | IRS raises eyebrows in digital assets industry with draft broker form | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The Internal Revenue Service is seeking comment on a draft form for 2025, 1099-DA, to report "digital asset proceeds from broker transactions."
Why it matters: As tax treatment of these asse... |
| 05.10.2023 | Top 10 Crypto Research Firms in 2023 | Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology have transformed the way we think about financial transactions. With the rise of digital currencies and decentralized ledgers, there has been an explosion in research surrounding this new field. As... |
| 30.08.2023 | Tornado Cash Indictments May Prove to Be Just a Localized Storm After All
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Elsewhere: | The Tornado Cash indictments are being viewed by many as another tipping point for crypto. In that view, how the case plays out could define how the federal government can deal with decentralized trading platforms if they’re seen as broad p... |
| 26.08.2023 | Crypto in bold: Binance woes, difficult Bitcoin, legal Tornado, USDC game, friend.tech drama, and more | As bitcoin (BTC) struggled to recover this week, the crypto market was abuzz with its new hyped project, and law enforcement made several announcements as well. Additionally, there were several negative reports impacting the market’s larges... |
| 18.05.2023 | Elizabeth Warren’s Bill Won’t Stop Money Laundering, but It Could Ban Crypto | On Capitol Hill, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS), are pushing legislation that purports to close loopholes bad actors may exploit to launder money through crypto assets. But what the legislation – the so-ca... |
| 11.05.2023 | Tornado Cash Litigation Update | The Treasury Department on May 3 provided its most thorough defense to date of its proclaimed authority to impose sanctions on novel, decentralized finance technologies. As part of a lawsuit challenging the Office of Foreign Assets Control’... |
| 03.04.2023 | RESTRICT Act — новый законопроект поставит под угрозу работу VPN в США | Американский сенат рассматривает законопроект, позволяющий ограничивать работу иностранных социальных сетей и других цифровых сервисов на территории страны. Правозащитники считают его неконституционным и видят в размытых формулировках прост... |
| 28.11.2022 | Crypto Caverns' Statement on NY Governor Hochul Signing of 2-Year Cryptocurrency Mining Moratorium | NEW YORK CITY, USA, November 28, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed Bill A7389C, placing a moratorium on certain kinds of “Behind-The-Meter” mining for 2 years. While Crypto Caverns’ operations are not affe... |
| 29.09.2022 | Tornado Cash Sanctions Are Unduly ‘Creative’ With the First Amendment | In May, Nicholas Weaver suggested in Lawfare that the U.S. Treasury should “creatively” sanction Tornado Cash. In August, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) followed Weaver’s advice. The results were pretty disastrous for civil lib... |
| 28.09.2022 | The Problem Tornado Cash Raises About Base Layer Censorship on Ethereum | On an otherwise quiet day last month, the crypto industry woke up to big news – the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 45 public Ethereum addresses to the sanctions blacklist, including addresses where ... |
| 25.08.2022 | США объявили войну крипто-анонимности: как санкции на Tornado Cash меняют будущее блокчейна | Прямо сейчас происходят события, которые могут стать поворотной точкой для всей криптоиндустрии (а заодно и для всех open-source программистов). Тем более странно, что пока эти события вызывают ажиотаж только в узком кругу настоящих криптан... |
| 09.08.2022 | As Government Takes on the Tornado Mixer, It May Reap a Whirlwind
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Is code speech? | In the late 15th century, in what is now Germany, a monk wrote a book about magic.
It was not actually about magic.
The three-volume “Steganographia,” authored by the Benedictine abbot Johannes Trithemius, described the use of spirits to co... |
| 27.06.2022 | Harmony hackers make moves to transfer $36m in ether | CryptoNewsStartups
Deepti Sri · 2d ago · 2 min readHarmony hackers make moves to transfer $36m in ether
Nearly 30,000 ether (about US$36 million as of writing) of the US$100 million hack of blockchain platform Harmony was transferred to pri... |
| 27.06.2022 | Tax Information Reporting On Digital Assets Steps Into The Spotlight | Digital generated image of purple circular helium balloon with bitcoin sign on it exploding against ... [+] grey background visualising stock market crash. getty |
| 11.06.2022 | Coin Center Sues US Treasury Over 'Unconstitutional' Tax Reporting Rule | AUSTIN, Texas — Crypto think tank Coin Center filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service on Friday, claiming a crypto tax reporting requirement enshrined in last year's infrastructure law is "unco... |
| 22.04.2022 | Binance recovers funds worth $5.8m from Axie hack | BlockchainGamingInvestmentsNewsStartups
Deepti Sri · 22 Apr 2022 · 2 min readBinance recovers funds worth $5.8m from Axie hack
Crypto exchange Binance has recovered funds worth US$5.8 million, stolen in the hack of the Ronin Network, Axie I... |
| 04.04.2022 | Axie hacker makes moves to transfer $7m in ether | BlockchainGamingNews
Miguel Cordon · 4 Apr 2022 · 1 min readAxie hacker makes moves to transfer $7m in ether
At least 2,000 ether (nearly US$7 million as of writing) stolen in the US$620 million hack of Ronin Network, the Ethereum side chai... |
| 31.01.2022 | The $41 billion NFT industry is unleashing lobbyists on D.C. as it tries to avoid big tech’s fate | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
NFTs, or digital assets like art that come with a sort of certificate of ownership, are fetching millions ... |
| 27.01.2022 | How Binance, Coinbase and 22 Other Crypto Exchanges Handle Your Data | Never bother to read the privacy policy when signing up for a cryptocurrency exchange? Maybe you should.
For Privacy Week, CoinDesk reviewed the privacy policies and notices of 24 major crypto exchanges and lending services to see how much ... |
| 14.12.2021 | Some federal lawmakers and their staffers are all in on cryptocurrency speculation as Congress mulls how (or how not) to regulate the coins | Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming has invested in cryptocurrency. Tom Williams/Roll Call At least five lawmakers invested in brokerage firms involved in crypto or other digital assets in 2020 and 2021. At least 21 congressional staffers have a... |
| 14.12.2021 | Some federal lawmakers and their staffers are all in on cryptocurrency speculation as Congress mulls how (or how not) to regulate the coins | Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming has invested in cryptocurrency.Tom Williams/Roll Call
At least five lawmakers invested in brokerage firms involved in crypto or other digital assets in 2020 and 2021.
At least 21 congressional staffers have al... |
| 14.12.2021 | Some federal lawmakers and their staffers are all in on cryptocurrency speculation as Congress mulls how (or how not) to regulate the coins | Advertisement
Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming has invested in cryptocurrency.Tom Williams/Roll Call
At least five lawmakers invested in brokerage firms involved in crypto or other digital assets in 2020 and 2021.
At least 21 congressional st... |
| 27.10.2021 | CFTC Should Be Crypto’s ‘Primary Cop,’ Acting Chairman Says
Brewing turf war? | The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is ready to be the main federal regulator for crypto, its acting head said Wednesday.
Rostin Behnam, the acting chairman of the CFTC, told the Senate Agriculture Committee that the commodities... |
| 01.10.2021 | Is Mozilla Trying to Sabotage Distributed Identity? | Coin Center, the cryptocurrency lobbying group that vaulted into the spotlight during the recent U.S. Senate fight over crypto tax reporting, this week called out the Mozilla Foundation as part of an attempt to “waylay” the development of a... |
| 09.06.2021 | Moving on From Good-Bad Crypto Dialogue | May 2021 was tough for crypto, especially for bitcoin, which dropped 40% since its peak in March. Besides the wild volatility fueled by a crypto friend turned foe (and friend again?), we saw a Nobel laureate claiming that crypto is a Ponzi ... |
| 30.04.2021 | Financial Censorship Is a Thing. Bitcoin Fixes It | The next time someone smugly tells you there is “no legitimate use case” for cryptocurrency, or asserts that it has “no redeeming social value,” shove this story in his or her face:
Meduza, a Russian news outlet, is soliciting donations in ... |
| 12.04.2021 | Square-Led COPA Sues Craig Wright Over Bitcoin White Paper Copyright Claims | If you send out enough cease-and-desist orders, it’s likely you’ll get a lawsuit in return. That appears to be the case with nChain Chief Scientist Craig Wright and his legal crusade to block people within and without the cryptocurrency com... |
| 26.03.2021 | Money Reimagined: NFTs Can Learn From DeFi's Growth | This week, you could be forgiven for thinking bitcoin has ceded ground at the epicenter of the crypto zeitgeist to non-fungible tokens (NFT). Bitcoin’s price dropped to its lowest level since March 8, after failing to consolidate gains made... |
| 25.03.2021 | Crypto Must Apply Safety Lessons of the Existing Financial System | There is a revealing, albeit slightly morbid, maxim that “safety standards are written in blood.” Humans and human-created systems generally tend to be reactive rather than proactive when it comes to developing protective rules. Nevertheles... |
| 20.03.2021 | Coin Center Reminds that Deadline for Comments on FinCEN Rulemaking for Crypto Transactions Is End of March 2021 | Peter Van Valkenburgh, the Director of Research at Coin Center, a leading non-profit entity focused on the latest policy issues facing digital currencies, notes that his organization will be using the additional time provided by FinCEN to s... |
| 01.02.2021 | FinCEN's Wallet Rule Aims to Close Crypto-Cash Reporting Gap, Official Says | Financial institutions report large cash and crypto transactions differently. This gap led to a controversial rule proposed by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) late last year, an official said Monday.
Speaking at a virtual ... |
| 25.01.2021 | Grayscale to Match Any Donation in February to CoinCenter Non-Profit | Contents Grayscale donates $1,000,000, matches every donation in FebruaryCoinCenter helps crypto to tackle policy and legal issues
According to Mr. Neeraj Agrawal of CoinCenter, Grayscale Investments has taken the torch from top-tier exchan... |
| 21.01.2021 | Why Everyone From Square to Facebook Is Now Hosting the Bitcoin White Paper | Some of the Bitcoin community's most prominent voices (and also Facebook subsidiary Novi) are now hosting the Bitcoin white paper.
The move follows legal threats from nChain Chief Scientist Craig Wright levied against the nonprofit that has... |
| 15.01.2021 | Treasury’s Christmas Gift Is Another Flawed AML Rule | WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 10: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin testifies during a ... [+] hearing before the Congressional Oversight Commission at Dirksen Senate Office Building December 10, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, ... |
| 12.01.2021 | FinCEN's Crypto Rules Aren't as Unfair as Jack Dorsey Says | Over the last few weeks, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, has been inundated with 7,477 angry comments about a rule change it proposed just before Christmas. “Impressive ineptitude," says one anonymous commente... |
| 08.01.2021 | Bitcoin advocates revolt against the Trump administration’s frantic crypto regulations | Leigh Cuen Contributor
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| 07.01.2021 | 7K Comments and Counting: Crypto Industry Fights 'Arbitrary' Treasury Rule | The Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a unit of the U.S. Treasury Department wants crypto exchanges to collect a lot more data about individuals transferring more than $3,000 in cryptocurrencies into private wallets. The crypto ... |
| 06.01.2021 | Trump and Mnuchin’s parting sneak attack on financial privacy | This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to get it free in your inbox.
Good morning, and welcome back!
That’s assuming, of course, that you’re among th... |
| 04.01.2021 | Square : Federal Comment Letter Regarding FinCEN's Proposed Rulemaking on Requirements for Certain Transactions Involving Convertible Virtual Currency or Digital Assets | Square, Inc.'s Federal Comment Letter Regarding FinCEN's Proposed Rulemaking on Requirements for Certain Transactions Involving Convertible Virtual Currency or Digital Assets
Jan 04, 2021
To whom it may concern:
Square, Inc. ('Square') is a... |
| 28.12.2020 | Petition Launched To Extend Comment Period On Cryptocurrency/Bitcoin Self-Custody Regulations | KRAKOW, POLAND - 2018/11/13: In this photo illustration, the Bitcoin wallet app is seen displayed ... [+] on an Android mobile phone. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)LightRocket via Getty Images |
| 18.12.2020 | Blockchain Bites: The Fight for Private, Digital Cash | Hey, what a week. Coinbase sent a signal of its intent to go public. Block.one revealed it has more than its purported 140,000 BTC war chest. And bitcoin is still above $20,000 – everyday adding a new notch to its longest streak.
Crypto exp... |
| 17.12.2020 | Nationalizing Stablecoins Won't Improve Financial Access | If you don't have an opinion on stablecoins already, you might have to formulate one soon. Stablecoins – cryptographic tokens that aim to match the performance of sovereign currencies like the U.S. dollar – may well be the next battleground... |
| 11.12.2020 | Women in Tech Say Proposed STABLE Act Harms Those It Claims to Protect | Although the STABLE Act, proposed Dec. 2 by U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), is being portrayed by its supporters as protecting low-income communities, many women from marginalize... |
| 04.12.2020 | Coin Center Donations Top $100K Worth of Dai Following Anti-Stablecoin Bill Proposal | Anti-stablecoin legislation has been a boon for donations to Coin Center, a cryptocurrency think tank and policy advocacy group, with the organization receiving over $100,000 in donations – paid out in stablecoins – two days after the bill ... |
| 27.11.2020 | Industry Pros Weigh In on Rumors of New Crypto Wallet Regulations | Recent rumors about U.S. regulation of private, self-hosted crypto wallets have some compelling context.
For example, the proposal submitted last month by U.S. authorities to lower the anti-money laundering (AML) threshold for cross-border ... |
| 26.11.2020 | Coinbase CEO: Trump Administration May 'Rush Out' Burdensome Crypto Wallet Rules | Brian Armstrong is worried the Trump Administration is about to send the cryptocurrency industry a parting gift.
The Coinbase CEO took to Twitter Wednesday night to blast the U.S. Treasury Department’s rumored plans to attempt to track owne... |
| 21.11.2020 | US Regulator Seeks End to Bank Deplatforming of 'Disfavored' Industries (Like Crypto) | Call it the CPR after Operation Choke Point.
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a national bank regulator led by former Coinbase counsel Brian Books, has proposed a rule that would forbid banks to blacklist legal industries... |
| 16.11.2020 | Why FinCEN Wants Details on All Cross-Border Transactions Over $250 | U.S. regulators are discussing the “why” of a new proposal that has crypto fans concerned.
Speaking Monday at the V20 Virtual Asset Service Providers Summit, Carole House, cyber and emerging tech policy specialist at the Financial Crimes En... |
| 27.10.2020 | How a Decentralized Internet Can Power Latin America's Economy | It's no secret Latin America's economy is not in great shape compared to other regions.
There isn’t any single reason for this. You could point to a dependence on commodity exports and its booms and bust cycles, government corruption, incom... |
| 14.10.2020 | Can digital cash survive contact with its enemies? | This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to get it free in your inbox.
The past few weeks have sparked a wave of worry that, as Bitcoin and other crypt... |
| 22.07.2020 | The Twitter hackers’ Bitcoin shell game | This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to get it free in your inbox.
There’s a scene that recurs in heist films: invariably, a gang of bank robbers d... |
| 02.07.2020 | Bitcoin Startup Zap Is Working With Visa | Lightning developer and Zap, Inc. founder Jack Mallers announced Thursday his startup’s Strike product, which allows people to receive bitcoin as dollars via direct bank deposits, is finally entering public beta.
A Visa card is also in the ... |
| 26.03.2020 | What Happened In Cryptocurrency Tax Space In Q1 2020 | A woman wearing a protective face mask is seen in Krakow, Poland on March 25, 2020. Poland's ... [+] government decided that due to the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, new limitations will be introduced across the country, such as rules... |
| 13.02.2020 | US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer | Larry Harmon was arrested earlier this week for allegedly participating in a money-laundering conspiracy worth more than $300 million in cryptocurrency involving darknet marketplace AlphaBay. However, the family of the Coin Ninja CEO claims... |
| 06.02.2020 | A SEC Safe Harbor For Crypto | SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce proposed a “safe harbor” for crypto projects that raise money before they are sufficiently decentralized.
I am a big fan of “safe harbors”and wrote a bit a few years ago about why I like them so much and why a... |
| 16.01.2020 | US Lawmakers Try Again on Tax Relief for Small Crypto Payments | U.S. lawmakers have resurrected a bipartisan push to exempt gains from small cryptocurrency transactions from being taxed.
On Thursday, Reps. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), Darren Soto (D-Fla.) and Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) ... |
| 20.12.2019 | Crypto Must Embrace the Fringe to Win Over the Mainstream | This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Jeffrey Amico is an attorney at Fluidity, creators of the ethereum-based peer-to-peer trading ne... |
| 20.12.2019 | US Lawmakers Ask IRS to Clarify Crypto Tax Rules Around Airdrops, Forks in New Letter | The U.S. taxman's most recent crypto guidance is sowing confusion, according to a letter from eight congressmen published Friday.
According to a letter penned by Representatives Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Bill Foster (D-Ill.), David Schweikert (R... |
| 15.12.2019 | Dissidents and Activists Have a Lot to Gain From Bitcoin, if Only They Knew It | This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and Vice President of St... |
| 16.10.2019 | Why China Is the Real Winner in the Anti-Libra Cryptocurrency Battle—The Ledger | If it once seemed possible, among crypto-enthusiasts, for a currency to exist outside the reaches of a central government authority, U.S. regulators did their best last week to stamp out such beliefs.
U.S. officials not only succeeded in de... |
| 12.08.2019 | IRS Warnings to Bitcoin Traders Offer Clues to Coming Tax Guidance | The Takeaway:
The IRS' recent warning letters to 10,000 traders offer hints at what its forthcoming guidance on crypto taxes might say.
While the letters are not guidance, the tea leaves indicate the IRS might be changing its required metho... |
| 07.06.2019 | What to Expect When the IRS Alters Its Bitcoin Tax Policy | The Takeaway
Coming guidance from the IRS will address longstanding questions about the tax treatment of cryptocurrency.
The tax collector has identified several specific issues it will discuss, including whether investors owe taxes on free... |
| 13.05.2019 | Blockchain Week NYC | It is that time of year again, when the entire crypto sector comes to NYC. It is called Blockchain Week NYC and there are a dozen or more industry events like the Coin Center Annual Dinner, The Third Annual Token Summit, Consensus, Women On... |
| 26.03.2019 | The Ledger: ‘ICO’ Settlement Learnings, Apple Card, Bitcoin Trading Faked | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been cutting deals in recent months with cryptocurrency projects it has deemed to be in violation of the so-called Howey test, a rule-of-thumb for determining whether an asset qualifies as a s... |
| 12.03.2019 | Jay Clayton Affirms ETH is Not a Security | Chairman of the U.S Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), Jay Clayton has confirmed in a letter that he agrees with earlier comments about the status of Ethereum (ETH) made in June 2018 by SEC Director of Corporation Finance, William H... |
| 16.01.2019 | US Lawmaker Reintroduces Bill Seeking 'Safe Harbor' for Some Crypto Startups | U.S. Representative Tom Emmer wants to boost crypto companies which may be impacted by state-level money transmission laws with a bill aimed at creating exceptions for firms which do not store any coins.
House Resolution 528, which aims &qu... |
| 22.09.2018 | The Ledger: New York’s Power-Trip, XRP Goes on a Run & Crypto Art in Berlin | A long-simmering feud between crypto companies and regulators boiled over in the Empire State this week. The conflict came to a head when the New York Attorney General’s office issued a report accusing digital currency exchanges of shady tr... |
| 15.06.2018 | What Crypto Thinks About the SEC Saying Ether Isn't a Security | "Based on my understanding of the present state of ether, the ethereum network and its decentralized structure, current offers and sales of ether are not securities transactions."
So said William Hinman, director of the division o... |
| 23.05.2018 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Blockchain Takes Over | In our 217th episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, the blockchain and cryptocurrency team takes over the podcast again.
Alan Cohn hosts another of the podcast’s periodic deep dives into all things blockchain and cryptocurrency to discuss recent ... |
| 17.05.2018 | This year’s Consensus, the ‘Super Bowl of blockchain,’ saw attendance surge | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The premier event of the emerging blockchain and ... |
| 17.05.2018 | This year’s Consensus, the ‘Super Bowl of blockchain,’ saw attendance surge | The premier event of the emerging blockchain and crypto community is Consensus, which takes place in New York every May. The event is backed by the powerful and influential Digital Currency Group, of which longtime industry thought-leader a... |
| 24.04.2018 | Fear and HODLing at MIT: Blockchain Experts Weigh Impact of SEC Action | Regulation: It’s good for you, but it’s going to hurt.
That seemed to be the main takeaway for the cryptocurrency industry from Monday’s Business of Blockchain conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
On the one hand, ... |
| 24.03.2018 | Audio Of The Week: | If you are curious what the state of play is in the US regulatory stance towards crypto and blockchain, the best place to turn is Coin Center, the crypto industry’s voice in DC.
And in this podcast, Coin Center’s Director of Research Peter ... |
| 16.03.2018 | 13 Must-Attend Blockchain Conferences In 2018 | With the surge in popularity of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, hundreds of events and conferences are being organized around the world to sensitize top executives and decision makers on the potential of these technologies. |
| 07.03.2018 | Ex-IMF Economist: Bitcoin Could Drop to $100 in the Next Decade | A well-known economist has predicted a steep drop in the price of bitcoin over the long-term.
Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard professor and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, said on CNBC’s Squawk Box program on Tuesday th... |
| 27.02.2018 | Why the blockchain challenges conventional thinking about intellectual property | Logo source: The Ethereum Foundation.
Cryptocurrencies are getting a lot of attention, but finance is only one of many applications of the blockchain technology behind it.
Blockchain technology is poised to revolutionise almost everything f... |
| 09.01.2018 | Bitcoin Mining Wastes Energy? What If That's Good? | Michael J. Casey is chairman of CoinDesk's advisory board and a senior advisor of blockchain research at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative.
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No one seems to know what assumptions to use. Depending on what efficiency rati... |
| 21.12.2017 | Blockchain-obsessed cat lover? CryptoKitties may be for you | With the financial world gripped by bitcoin and whether the market for cryptocurrencies is a bubble, the same technology behind the phenomenon is being used to tap other familiar cultural obsessions: collectibles. And cats. Lots and lots of... |
| 21.12.2017 | Writing the Blockchain Rulebook in 2018 | Josh Garcia is a fintech and blockchain Lawyer at Cooley LLP, where he helps clients with compliance advice, government enforcement actions and inquiry letters.
The following article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk's 2017 in Review... |
| 09.12.2017 | The Hidden Trade-Offs of ICOs for Entrepreneurs | Rob May is the CEO of Talla, which produces the Botchain, a network for managing autonomous agents on a blockchain. He also writes a newsletter on artificial intelligence.
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) seem like a dream come true for entrep... |
| 30.11.2017 | Coinbase Ordered to Hand IRS Data on 14,000 Users | Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has been ordered to disclose details of more than 14,000 customers to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Following a lengthy legal battle between the two entities, the San-Francisco district court rule... |
| 04.10.2017 | Where SAFT Falls Short | Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk's advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative.
In this opinion piece, his latest in a weekly series of columns, Casey offers qualified praise ... |
| 03.09.2017 | Multi-Sig Wallets | A lot of financial processes require multiple signatories, like a wire transfer for example. That adds a level of security and comfort to a process that moves a lot of funds quite quickly.
So it makes sense that blockchain technology would ... |
| 21.08.2017 | A Bitcoin Law for Every State? Interest and Animosity Greet Model US Regulation | A two-year effort to unify cryptocurrency business regulations across the U.S. has concluded – now, the technology's enthusiasts just have to convince legislators to enact it.
Established in 1892, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) is a non-p... |
| 20.08.2017 | The New Pachinko? Exploring the Economics of Initial Coin Offerings | Dr. Avtar Sehra is CEO and chief architect at Nivaura, a startup aiming to bring blockchain and distributed ledger efficiencies to financial services.
In this opinion piece, Sehra explores the emerging markets being built upon cryptocurrenc... |
| 25.07.2017 | SEC to blockchain community: You are now regulated | There are singular moments where you know for a fact that the world will no longer be the same afterwards. While not on par with some far more consequential events in history, today’s SEC ruling, concluding that blockchain tokens sold throu... |
| 04.06.2017 | Business in the age of Ethereum | Deep Patel Contributor
Deep Patel is a serial entrepreneur, marketer and the author of A Paperboy's Fable: The 11 Principles of Success.
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UPS bets on blockchain as the future of the trillion-dollar shipping ind... |
| 27.05.2017 | This was a big week for blockchain | I just spent four days at two of the most important conferences in the emerging blockchain/crypto-currency space.
One was Consensus. The other Token Summit.
I had about 100 conversations with people who are at the epicenter of the blockchai... |
| 20.05.2017 | Securities Laws Aren't the Only Rules Token Sales Have to Consider | Peter Van Valkenburgh is director of research at Coin Center, a Washington, DC-based cryptocurrency think tank, and the author of the new report, "The Bank Secrecy Act, Cryptocurrencies and New Tokens: What is Known and What Remains Am... |
| 22.02.2017 | California Proposes to Ban Bitcoin from Charity Raffles | - |
| 21.02.2017 | QLUE Wants to Unmask Bitcoin Users Committing ‘Financial Crimes’ | - |
| 14.01.2017 | The Two Topics in Law and Blockchain | Josh Stark is a lawyer and head of operations and legal at Ledger Labs, a blockchain consultancy based in Toronto.
In this CoinDesk Op-Ed, Stark argues that the field of "law and blockchain" encompasses two distinct topics: the ap... |
| 12.01.2017 | Just 7 People Complained to the CFPB About Bitcoin in 2016 | New data shows American consumers filed a total of just seven complaints with the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in 2016.
The CFPB was created in the wake of the financial crisis of the late 2000s as part of a bid to more cl... |
