Polish Finance Ministry: EU Should Create Bitcoin Regulation
Poland's Ministry of Finance has said regulating bitcoin should form "part of initiatives at the EU level, due to the transborder character of cryptocurrency transactions". The ministry provided this statement in a written response to a request for information filed by two Polish Members of Parliament (MPs), Jan Warzecha and Bogdan Rzońca. In their request for information, the MPs said "piracy, cybercrime, phishing, thefts and hacking online accounts and attacks on the users of cryptocurrencies are increasingly often taking place". More specifically, they said that, between 2004 and 2014,....
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