Taiwan Declares Bitcoin an Illegal Asset
This Monday, the Taiwanese Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) declared Bitcoin an illegal asset. Last year the Taiwanese central bank issued a warning stating that bitcoin was a highly speculative virtual asset and lacked a mechanism to protect its transactions. Now, claims of illegal activities being conducted with aid of the virtual currency were taken to court by the Taiwanese Financial Supervisory Commission. It all began when a Hong Kong tycoon was kidnapped and held hostage for more than a month by a gang in Taiwan. The gang was demanding a ransom to be paid in bitcoin. Today,....
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The Chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has declared Bitcoin to be illegal in Taiwan, following a recent high-profile kidnapping accident involving ransom demands made in Bitcoin. Despite the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin by a largely tech-savvy population in Taiwan wherein citizens have the means to buy bitcoin in popular convenience store chains, the Taiwanese FSC has today declared Bitcoin to be illegal in the country. FSC Chairman Tseng Ming-Chung. The announcement came after a recent high-profile incident wherein a prominent Hong Kong business tycoon was kidnapped....
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Just days after a Hong Kong tycoon was kidnapped, beaten, and held for millions of dollars in Bitcoin in ransom by criminals, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Chairman of Taiwan, Tseng Ming-chung, has made a ruling. Bitcoin is now illegal within Taiwan. In many developed countries, a separate government body, like a Parliament or Congress, would create laws after a vetting process of checks and balances, with a somewhat legitimate voting process. The banking interests are presumed to control the action from behind closed doors. Not in Taiwan apparently, where the FSC, similar to....
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