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BITS OF BLOCKS
BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, NXT Law
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Mar 25, 20212 min read
Brazilian Bitcoin ETF brings benefits to bourse
Following the three trailblazing Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) being listed in Canada on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Brazil is now...
Mar 18, 20211 min read
Mar 18, 20212 min read
Roll ransacked by rogue hacker
Social token platform Roll, built to be an "infrastructure for social money" has been the subject of a USD$5.7 million attack. The...
Mar 12, 20212 min read
Beeple's $70 million NFT debut
"The First 5000 days" by the American Artist known as Beeple has recently sold for an impressive US$69.4 million, especially considering...
Mar 12, 20212 min read
Non-Fungible Tokens Take Flight
The Australian Financial Review published a piece this week titled "Crypto-art becomes the new cultural currency" which updates the...
Feb 12, 20212 min read
Coinbase to trigger windfall gains for Westpac
Westpac's Reinventure fund is rumoured to be imminently yielding significant dividends for the bank, from an early investment the venture...
Feb 1, 20211 min read
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Craig Wright's cryptocurrency copyright crusade
Dr Craig Wright, the Australian who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto and the inventor of Bitcoin, has had legal letters sent to both...
Jan 29, 20212 min read
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German real estate group uses Stellar blockchain to issue $24M bond
Recently Vonovia, a major European real estate group, issued a EUR20 million (AUD 24 million) bond using the Stellar blockchain. Vonovia...
Jan 22, 20212 min read
Restless creditors offered 90% of remaining Bitcoin tied up in Mt. Gox bankruptcy
Another step forward in the longstanding Mt Gox saga has been taken, with creditors of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange finally being...
Jan 22, 20212 min read
French Central Bank hails first funds transaction using digital euro
The Banque de France has reportedly completed a pilot transaction with a central bank digital currency (CBDC). In The Bank announced the...
Dec 11, 20202 min read
The Mt Gox Saga: Alexander Vinnik to serve 5 years in France
Alexander Vinnik, involved in the notorious BTC-e exchange in the EU, and the subject of a long running expedition battle between France,...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
Suggestion & Surveillance: Talk of Chinese CBDC scares VIPs from Macau
Macau, a special administrative region of China with a gaming industry seven(!) times larger than that of Las Vegas, has been rattled by...
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Libra seizes the ‘day’ with rebranding
The launch of Libra back in June 2019 drew swathes of attention as the Libra Association attempted to create a compliant digital currency...
Dec 2, 20202 min read
Saudi and UAE Central banks sandbox Bilateral CBDC
In ambitions to shape the application of distributed ledger technology to prevail over existing pain points in cross-border transfers,...
Dec 2, 20202 min read
Banks rival for custody of digital asset keys
United Overseas Bank (UOB), Singapore’s third largest bank, appears to be making the move into the cryptocurrency space. After...
Nov 27, 20202 min read
Game on! Regulatory relief granted for gaming token VCOIN by US SEC
The SEC Division of Corporate Finance recently granted a welcome ‘no action position’ for Delaware Corporation IMVU Inc in relation to an...
Nov 19, 20202 min read
Australia better hop to it to keep up with a Digital Euro in the race to CBDCs
In a global race to digitise national currencies, the EU has kept good on its earlier promises to explore implementing the CBDC.
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