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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 9, 20222 min read
Swiss city makes crypto legal tender
Switzerland's eighth largest city, Lugarno, has announced that it will make bitcoin legal tender, allowing its citizens to pay for public...
Jun 10, 20212 min read
Bitcoin got the job! El Salvador promotes Bitcoin to legal tender
A moment of history was made when President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to make Bitcoin legal tender was recently approved by El Salvador's...
May 11, 20211 min read
Feb 19, 20212 min read
Crypto crime concentrated in 270 connected wallets
Reading articles on digital currency in the business press, you would be forgiven for thinking that digital currency is just used by...
Feb 2, 20212 min read
India intending to innovate with digital Rupee
Following on from indications that India was warming up to a Central Bank Digital Currency, the Indian legislature has published an...
Jan 11, 20212 min read
Aussie press muses Bitcoin as a gold replacement...
With Bitcoin's meteoric price rise over Christmas and the New Year, today kicked off with two of Australia's more conservative media...
Nov 19, 20202 min read
Getting paid with bitcoin: BitPay launches a new payroll service
Bitcoin payments provider BitPay recently announced a new service: “BitPay Send”, a neat new way for businesses to pay employees,...
Nov 16, 20203 min read
Uncle Sam seizes a Billion in Bitcoin
Interest rippled through the bitcoin community recently when a digital wallet containing roughly $1 billion in stolen bitcoin — thought...
Oct 29, 20201 min read
JPM Coin goes live with launch of dedicated blockchain division
JPMorgan's digital currency, JPM Coin, has made its first live commercial transaction this week by a large international technology company.
Oct 23, 20203 min read
FinCEN issues first fines for Bitcoin mixing
The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued its first-ever financial penalty against a Bitcoin mixer. FinCEN, the US...
Oct 23, 20202 min read
PayPal promotes payments with digital currency
PayPal announced on 21 October 2020 that it will be offering digital currencies to US customers.
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