• RUSSIA’S NEW BILL ON DIGITAL ASSETS

    • 4 August 2020
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    • Category: World News
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    Decentralized cryptocurrencies will be considered a type of property, which should be reported for tax purposes and cannot be used to pay for goods and services. This is one of the major aspects of the recent crypto bill signed by the Russian President Vladimir Putin. The new bill will come into force in January 2021

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  • BITCOIN CONSIDERED AS MONEY UNDER NEW D.C. RULING

    • 27 July 2020
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    Bitcoin, originally created by the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2009, is a form of “money” covered under the Washington District of Columbia (D.C.) Money Transmitters Act. This is the result of a federal court ruling which happened last Friday July 24th. The ruling establishes parameters on how the District of Columbia regulates cryptocurrency in

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  • DIGITAL ROCK HOLDING TAKES FURTHER DEVELOPMENT STEPS

    • 24 July 2020
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    • Category: Companies, Cryptovalues News
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    Investments in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are on the rise, in Italy and in the world, despite the COVID-19 emergency. The Rock Trading is one of the longest operating virtual assets service provider in the world and the main Italian platform that offers services to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with euros. Born in 2010, today

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  • THE EU’S PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR A MARKET IN CRYPTO ASSETS

    • 23 July 2020
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    • Category: Central Banks, ECB - Lagarde, EU Law
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    The following article by Lawrence Wintermeyer, Exec Co-Chair of Global Digital Finance, shines a light on the upcoming EU proposed Framework for Crypto-assets. After years of anticipation on December 19, 2019 the European Commission (the Commission) issued a public consultation on crypto assets,  which concluded on March 19, 2020. The consultation paper follows detailed due diligence

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  • U.S. SENATE TALKS CRYPTO & BLOCKCHAIN

    • 6 July 2020
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    On June 30, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee held a hearing that covered a whole host of policy topics on the digitization of #money and #payments. In what was described as a move closer to the U.S. Digital Dollar, the hearing also covered many hot topics related to the crypto and blockchain space. Chairman Mike

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  • CBDC WOULD GIVE FED TOO MUCH POWER

    • 1 July 2020
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    According to the American Bankers Association (ABA), a private consortium of American banks, central bank digital currency (CBDC) puts an uncomfortable amount of power in the hands of the Federal Reserve. A CDBC is a currency that is minted and distributed by a central bank. Some designs for central bank digital currencies could either use

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  • DELOITTE’S 2020 GLOBAL BLOCKCHAIN SURVEY

    • 18 June 2020
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    • Category: Companies, Cryptovalues News, Research & Development, Training
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    Nearly 40% of companies surveyed by Deloitte have already implemented #blockchain technology to improve their processes, but challenges remain for greater adoption. Deloitte surveyed around 1,500 senior #executives across 14 countries and found that more companies have put #money and resources on blockchain this year as compared to last year. In 2019, 23% of respondents

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  • BITCOIN PRIVACY WALLET UNDER EUROPOL’S LENS

    • 8 June 2020
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    Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, has its eyes on the popular #bitcoin #privacy tool Wasabi Wallet, documents verified by CoinDesk show. Marked for “law enforcement only,” a two-part report by Europol’s European #Cybercrime Centre (EC3) analyzed the privacy tool’s impact on using the Bitcoin blockchain to investigate crimes. read more here  source: Coindesk

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  • CANADA: MSB LEGALLY RECOGNIZE CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGES AND PROCESSORS

    • 4 June 2020
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    • Category: Central Banks, World News
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    As Francis Pouliot twitted… Today is my last day as an unregulated dealer in virtual currency. As of June 1st 2020, Bitcoin exchanges and payment processors are officially regulated as Money Services Businesses in Canada. Full circle 7 years after I started my career in Bitcoin lobbying on this very issue. — Frλ͎ncis ☣️ (bullbitcoin.com)

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  • WELCOME ON BOARD, DELOITTE

    • 22 May 2020
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    • Category: Companies, Cryptovalues News, Institutional Relations, Research & Development, Training
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    At Deloitte we believe that Blockchain is the technological game changer for a wide range of industries. It is the digital representation of the concepts of immutability, security, transparency, sharing and decentralization. All these topics are now, more than ever, key targets for a wide array of services in satisfying consumer needs. Deloitte nowadays boasts

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