The Regulators Want to Kill Bitcoin, one ATM at a time
As Bitcoin businesses are forced to become compliant with financial regulations, they're giving up anonymity, Venture Beat reports, and the Bitcoin community is not happy. Bitcoin ATM manufacturer Robocoin announced that all of its ATM operators would have to enable anti-privacy software and hardware as part of a new effort toward compliance with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). "We hoped operators would always get to choose KYC [(Know Your Customer)] vs Non-KYC, but legal requirements have emerged that do not allow the choice. It has become clear that as a registered....
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Ray Dalio, the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, believes that if bitcoin is “really successful,” the regulators will “kill it,” reiterating his previous concerns of governments banning cryptocurrencies. Nonetheless, he sees bitcoin as a good alternative to cash and owns some. Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Ray Dalio Warns of Regulators Killing Bitcoin Ray Dalio warns about regulators coming after bitcoin if the cryptocurrency gains mainstream success at the SALT conference in New York Wednesday. Dalio currently serves as....
L H Li, former president of the state-owned Bank of China (the fifth-largest bank in the world) and a member of the Financial & Economic Committee at China’s People’s Congress, stated in an interview for CCTV, China’s predominant state broadcaster, that it’s impossible to kill bitcoin. According to a translation by Eric Zhao from the Chinese Academy of Science, Li says: “Bitcoin was built on a platform without national boundaries. If you want to kill bitcoin, it will be an impossible task. So, it will continue to exist. What’s important now is that we should properly regulate it.” The....
An Indian parliament member has warned that imposing a 1% tax deducted at source (TDS) on every crypto transaction will kill the nascent asset class. This tax provision is contained in Finance Bill 2022 which Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament, has passed. However, India’s finance minister insists that the TDS on crypto transactions is for tracking purposes.
Parliament Member Raises Concerns Over 1% TDS on Crypto Transactions
Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of parliament, passed Finance Bill 2022 Friday which includes a proposal to tax....
“Bitcoin was built on a platform without national boundaries,” the Former Governor of the Bank of China, L H Li, said on CCTV Tuesday in China. “If you want to kill Bitcoin, it will be an impossible task. So it will continue to exist. What is important now is that we should properly regulate it.” Rumors in China have led bitcoin exchange executives to....
A legislative effort that would have allowed New Hampshire residents to pay their tax bills using bitcoin has been defeated. The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 264 to 74 to kill the bill on 20th January – a move that came just over a year after the measure was first introduced. The bill was introduced by state Representative Eric Schleien last January and proposed letting citizens in New Hampshire pay taxes and fees using the digital currency. If passed, the New Hampshire State Treasurer would have been mandated to select a bitcoin payments firm to process the transactions....