Bitcoin Startup Cleared of Breaching Securities Law
The Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority (FCAA) of Saskatchewan, Canada, has cleared a bitcoin startup of breaching securities law. A decision from the FCAA panel, announced on 22nd October, found that Dominion Bitcoin Mining Company Ltd did not solicit investors, nor offer shares illegally. Its statement reads: "It is the determination of that Panel that, notwithstanding the initially apparent validity of the allegations of the FCAA staff, an offering of shares did not at material times exist, and the parties did not engage ... in any breach of the provisions of the Act [The....
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