By CCN: France is pushing the boundaries with its new crypto regulatory framework, which it unveiled a week ago. Now the government plans to pressure other EU states to take the “right” approach to crypto regulation. French officials are acutely aware that the blockchain is an emerging field with proven risks, and they have employed a heavy screening

BILL H.R. 922 – HANDLING PRICE MANIPULATION Representatives Darren Soto and Warren Davidson have introduced two new blockchain-related bills on January 30th. The first one called H.R. 922 – Virtual Currency Consumer Protection Act of 2019,  is aimed at tackling the issue of price manipulation. According to the document, the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

WORLD’S FIRST LIGHTNING-ENABLED BITCOIN ATM ‘WORKED FINE’ On March 31, 2019, Weis publicly demonstrated a transaction via Lightning Network at a bitcoin ATM, during the Lightning Hackday, in Hong Kong, as shown in the video below. Later, Weis described the transaction as: Just a proof of concept ‘top up your existing channel.’ Lots of bugs but two

A HESITANT VOTE 99 members of the National Council, Switzerland’s lower house of the Federal Assembly, have supported a motion to put forward proposed regulations by liberal public representative Giovanni Merlini. 83 people voted against, while 10 refrained from voting at all. The proposed regulations will now have to be considered by the Council of States, which

In light of the splash JPMorgan made recently with its plan for a bank-backed cryptocurrency, it’s worth remembering another big institution first tested a token to connect global payments – back in 2015. Codenamed “Citicoin,” the project out of Citigroup’s innovation lab in Dublin was never formally announced by the bank, even as a proof