North Carolina Bitcoin Legislation Is Decent But Not Perfect
It is important to note this Bitcoin legislation is not all negative, though. Chamber of Digital Commerce president Perianne Boring is a public supporter of this new law. Bitcoin and regulation are two topics that will hardly ever go hand-in-hand these days. North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has been signing a lot of legislative proposals as of late. Among these guidelines is a new set of Bitcoin legislation, allowing banks to “better regulate” the cryptocurrency in the state. So far, regulatory efforts for the Bitcoin space have not been overwhelmingly positive. BitLicense in New York....
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Digital currencies and lawmakers are formally crossing paths ever more frequently. In the US, it is North Carolina which most recently took on the challenge of marrying them together with local legislation – more pragmatically, it would seem, than in New York. While furor about the BitLicense scheme rages on further up the coast, NC’s primary financial regulator The North Carolina Commission of Banks (NCCOB) is mulling a refreshingly moderate approach for policy within state borders, coinfinance.com notes. The organization said yesterday: This “keeping pace” is set to occur in the form of....
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Following a majority vote of the North Carolina Senate, the General Assembly of the state has now approved the amendment of a statutory article – the North Carolina Money Transmitters Act. The move will see the term “virtual currency” added to the existing law. Bitcoin exchanges and other industry companies in North Carolina will now be mandated to obtain a money transmitter license following a vote by members of the North Carolina Senate. In May 2016, North Carolina state’s House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted in a 117-to-1 vote, seeking the update before the recent approval from....