BTCChicago Day #2 Highlights
Regulators & Bitcoin. New York’s BitLicense was a particular hot topic for the weekend. Bruce Fenton told the audience at TNABC that current regulators aren’t our friends. Some of the specific regulations regarding New York’s BitLicense seem a bit excessive. Lawsky has said that the regulations are to weed out bad actors, but such measures can weed out even good actors. Fenton called Lawsky’s hearing and TV appearances a masquerade. Regulations haven’t really the community’s expectations. Although that may be the case the governors that elect the regulators are so citizens can call them....
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Perianne Boring started the day off with a press release where she announced the Chamber of Digital Commerce. The digital asset industry is expected to grow to an estimated value in the trillion dollar range within the next five to seven years. This figure includes all the businesses associated within the industry, and such businesses need representation in government. The Chamber of Digital Commerce is a trade association based in Washington, DC that will advise public-policy makers in Bitcoin and digital assets. Karl Gray of StartJoin, the crowdfunding platform that aims to fund startups....
For those of you that were not able to view the US Senate hearings on Virtual Currencies [read: Bitcoin] do check out these highlights. Youtube user hromlery has been kind enough to highlight prominent US officials talking about Bitcoin. Even one year ago, nobody could have imagined this.
On February 12, the founder of the now-defunct file-sharing website Megaupload and cryptocurrency proponent, Kim Dotcom tweeted about a new website he created that shows the upside of bitcoin cash. The web portal whybitcoincash.com highlights why people should join the digital money revolution and how “cryptocurrencies stand to transform the way business and individuals exchange value.” Kim Dotcom Launches Whybitcoincash.com In mid-January, news.Bitcoin.com chatted with Kim Dotcom and he discussed how he planned to “accelerate” the mission of peer-to-peer electronic....
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has published the organization’s 12-month review and the research highlights that only 45% of the 128 reporting jurisdictions have complied with AML/CFT policy and FATF recommendations. The annual review stresses that the “lack [of] effective” regulation makes it “challenging for competent authorities to follow the transaction trail, buying more time for criminals to move criminal proceeds.” Less Than Half of the Reporting Jurisdictions Have Met FATF’s Crypto Compliance Standards Over the last few years, the FATF....
Nansen, a cryptocurrency and blockchain statistics and analytics platform, has issued a report on the growth of decentralized finance (defi) in 2021. The document highlights how defi managed to keep growing, opening the field to new participant chains. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) also had a notable year, with many new wallets experiencing growth as a result.
Nansen Puts 2021 in Review
Nansen, a blockchain analytics firm backed by Coinbase Ventures and a16z, has presented a report about the behavior and growth that decentralized finance and NFTs experienced in the last year. The....