Is The DoJ Taking "Vacations" To Jurisdictions Which Harbor Bitcoin Exchanges?
Roger Ver speaking at LeWeb 2013. Picture via LeWeb13. Bitcoin investor Roger Ver divulged details regarding the arrest of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles which had not yet come to light for the Coin Congress 2015 crowd in San Francisco's Hilton Union Square. The Bitcoin entrepreneur suspects that the US government is visiting jurisdictions in which Bitcoin exchanges operate, having visited not only Tokyo where Mark Karpeles of Mt. Gox resides, but also Slovenia, home of Bitcoin exchange BitStamp. "I think people should know the federal prosecutor Kathryn Haun flew out to Tokyo a few weeks....
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US Congressman Tom Emmer is pushing for safe harbor legislation to protect taxpayers with forked coins. A bill entitled “Safe Harbor for Taxpayers with Forked Assets Act of 2021” has been introduced to prohibit “penalties against taxpayers attempting to report certain gains or losses on ‘forked assets’ until the IRS issues sufficient guidance on how to do so.” Bill Aimed at Protecting Crypto Investors Introduced The office of Congressman Tom Emmer announced this week that the congressman has introduced the bill entitled “Safe Harbor for Taxpayers....
The European Court of Justice declared the Safe Harbor agreement between the EU and the US invalid on October 6, 2015. This ruling will affect U.S. companies like Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and thousands of others. According to this judgment, these companies may now be ordered to suspend the transfer of data from Europe to servers in the....
To be clear right from the start: You won't find a definite answer in this article. There are many theories why the price is going down, and it is interesting and insightful to look at them. There might be one that you really like, and there might be one you think is true, but we can't be sure. Some good theories can be found below. Possible reasons for why the Bitcoin price is going down: Dell is selling their first bitcoins. The whales (big Bitcoin holders) are selling. Investors think Bitcoin is still in Bubble territory. There is no real reason to go up, and crypto in general doesn't....
The “Clarity for Digital Tokens Act of 2021” bill seemingly builds on an initiative from SEC commissioner Hester Peirce, who has called for creating a safe harbor for projects that raise funds to build decentralized networks. North Carolina House Representative Patrick McHenry has proposed a bill which would amend one of the laws governing the Securities and Exchange Commission to provide a safe harbor for certain token projects.In a draft of the “Clarity for Digital Tokens Act of 2021” provided by the House Committee on Financial Services, McHenry suggested amending the Securities Act of....
The total number of jurisdictions with an absolute ban or severe restrictions on crypto has more than doubled over the past three years, and there are few signs that this trend is slowing down. Although 2021 was a good year for the cryptocurrency industry in terms of market performance, the number of jurisdictions banning crypto has more than doubled since 2018.A report by the Library of Congress (LOC) details the nine jurisdictions that have now applied an absolute ban on crypto and the 42 with an implicit ban. This is up from eight and 15 respectively in 2018 when the report was first....