There's Now a Bitcoin ATM in Belgium
Some day, bitcoin ATMs are likely to be ubiquitous. Until then, we're having fund counting firsts, and today, we're learning that there's now a bitcoin ATM in Belgium. Located in the Flemish region of the country in the city of Ghent, the ATM is installed at the Gameswap HQ store - and if you haven't already guessed by the name, the store sells video games. Filip Roose of Orillia - a bitcoin services company in the country - says the idea behind the ATM is to bring bitcoin out from obscurity. To bring it out of the obscure world, we're trying something here with a machine so you can....
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The National Bank of Belgium doesn't have any plans to regulate bitcoin further, according to the Belgian Bitcoin Association. Belgium's central bank met with the Association to discuss the digital currency last Monday, describing the meeting as "informal". "There are currently no plans for new regulations in Belgium that would allow the [central bank] to take a more intervening [sic] stance - though future regulations to that effect cannot be excluded," read a statement from the association. Thomas Spaas, a board member who represented the Belgian Bitcoin Association at the meeting, said....
The Belgium Central Bank - aptly named the National Bank of Belgium - reportedly has no plans to regulate bitcoin in the foreseeable future. That's according to the Belgian Bitcoin Association (BBA_, who met with the central bank informally last Monday. In a statement produced by the Association and published by CoinDesk, the BBA said "There are currently no plans for new regulations in Belgium that would allow the [National Bank of Belgium] to take a more intervening stance - though future regulations to that effect cannot be excluded". It should be noted that due to the informal nature....
Last week some of us at Bitcoinist.net got together and did a brainstorm session. Among the many things we discussed was the topic of having a “status quaestionis” series of articles on the “pro” digital currency governments in the world. We will focus in on providing unbiased information, which is the modus operandi of every professional news site like Bitcoinist and others, and give a balanced opinion that will look at both sides of the coin so to speak. How are we going to provide “unbiased information” to our readers you might ask? By analysing official documents ( if any) and talking....
Welkom bij deze Bitcoin Automaat. In case you are wondering the words above are written in Flemish, a language closely related to Dutch and spoken in Belgium. They are important to the Bitcoin community because they are the first words that you will see as you do your transaction at Belgium's first Bitcoin ATM, in the city of Ghent. Oh, and, by the way, the words mean "welcome to this Bitcoin ATM!" Ghent is a port city located in the East Flanders province of Belgium, with a population of about 250,000 inhabitants. It is the second largest city in the country by population and has been....
Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review 13th September 2013 - a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host ... John Law. High hopes from a low country. Like a fledgling revolutionary state, bitcoin is desperate for international recognition. And, as with many such states, the rest of the world is carefully chewing over the implications of any such acknowledgement. So the latest lukewarm-to-positive statement from Belgium's finance minister that BTC looks mostly harmless has....