Regulation

If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that bitcoin and the crypto industry probably need to up the ante on their privacy protocols. While blockchain is typically more secure than other forms of digital finance technology, we are often hearing stories about exchange hacks and malicious actors that seek to get their fingers on digital funds that just don’t belong to them.Bitcoin Privacy Needs to Be UppedKevin Pan, the CEO of Poolin (one of the top three bitcoin mining pools in the...

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday that Paris, Rome, and Berlin will join together in the effort of blocking Facebook’s new digital currency Libra in Europe.This is not the first time Le Maire is showing his hate towards cryptocurrencies. Last month, when he spoke about Libra, he said that this kind of technology, developed by the social media giant “causes serious concerns and therefore its operation cannot be authorized for use on European soil.”He added that the Libra...

Telegram’s launch of its TON blockchain and GRAMS token has hit yet another brick wall because the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken the issue of the launch of their tokens before a court. In a filing two days ago, the messenger app organization asked the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to deny the SEC the preliminary injunction. Just for reminder, the SEC had asked for it a filing of its own last week requesting Telegram to...

According to a report out of The Logic, the Bank of Canada is preparing to run the gauntlet and potentially launch its own digital currency in the near future. Journalists secured access to a presentation dubbed “Central Bank Money: The Next Generation”. The paper was prepared for the central bank’s board of directors and its governor Stephen Poloz. If launched, the digital currency would work hand in hand with physical cash. The bank, however, plans to eventually scrap physical trading...

It appears that the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has entered a dew deal with the European Union over Brexit. Sources indicate that the deal came on the sidelines of a meeting in Brussels of EU leaders. Although the legal context of the deal isn’t yet clear, the British Prime Minister has already indicated via a tweet that the deal gives control back to the British.We’ve got a great new deal that takes back control — now Parliament should get Brexit done on Saturday so we can move on...

Telegram has informed its investors that the TON blockchain project will be launched later than it was previously planned, six months later, exactly on April 30, 2020.In an email to investors Telegram said it had a lot of problems and ‘run-ins’ with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that came by with the restraining order made to forbid this messenger app company from launching TON and issuing its Gram tokens. SEC decided to treat Grams as unregistered securities.This email...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 730. Heute geht’s um folgende Themen: Steemit startet Testlauf für Smart Media Token, Telegram verschiebt Start von TON auf 2020 & Zentralbänker verlangt weltweite Krypto Regulierung. 1.) Steemit startet Testlauf für Smart Media Tokenhttps://www.btc-echo.de/steemit-startet-testlauf-fuer-smart-media-token/ 2.) Telegram verschiebt Start von TON auf 2020 – Dialog mit den Investoren...

As we reported earlier, the long-awaited issuance of Gram tokens from Telegram on its Telegram Open Network (TON), was hit with a surprising roadblock when the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) deemed it unlawful and filed an emergency action as well as a restraining order against it.Even though the company is not based anywhere in the U.S., the SEC claims that Telegram not only failed to register properly but also was not entirely forthcoming with its investors, most of...

The Central Bank of Ireland has recently granted e-money license to crypto exchange Coinbase. This gives the crypto trading platform a license to expand its financial services throughout Europe.In a blog post last Saturday, October 12, Coinbase CEO Zeeshan Feroz said that this is a major milestone for the trading platform. Besides, Coinbase also begins the first company to get a license from the Irish Central Bank.A year ago Coinbase opened up its office in Dublin. Today’s announcement will...

In an interesting but not entirely surprising turn of events, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked Telegram to halt issuance of its forthcoming GRAM tokens. In a press release dated Oct. 11, the Commission said that it had already “filed an emergency action” and also a restraining order against Telegram Group Inc. as well as TON Issuer Inc., a subsidiary of the former. This came just a few weeks before Telegram promised to officially issue the tokens to...