Will Bitcoin Soon Be Legal in Vietnam?
Vietnam has had a particularly rocky relationship with bitcoin. Just a few months ago, the country was shattered by an alleged Ponzi scheme surrounding bitcoin activity. Promises were made that ultimately weren’t kept, and several people lost money that could have otherwise gone to much smarter and loftier purposes. There have been several warnings about bitcoin in Vietnam since it first arrived on the scene. Like Russia, the nation has sought to keep a safe distance, believing it likely stirs up trouble and related criminal activity, though remittance systems via bitcoin are present all....
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Vietnam is creating a legal framework for cryptocurrency. The country’s deputy prime minister has instructed the Ministries of Finance, Justice, and Information & Communications to work with the central bank, the State Bank of Vietnam, on the framework.
Vietnam Creating Legal Framework for Crypto
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai reportedly notified three ministries last week instructing them to work with the central bank, the State Bank of Vietnam, and other relevant bodies to build a legal framework for cryptocurrencies. The three ministries are....
Despite repeated statements from central bank representatives that bitcoin remains illegal in Vietnam, the country has a flourishing bitcoin ecosystem including exchanges, miners, and a few merchants. Now one of Vietnam's state-owned TV networks, VTV1, has broadcast an informative report on bitcoin and interviewed some of its main local identities. In the report, the co-founders of the Bitcoin Vietnam and VBTC exchanges, husband and wife team Dominik Weil and Nguyen Tran Bao Phuong, demonstrated how people could go online to buy bitcoins with local currency, the dong. The programme also....
Vietnam is set to join the growing list of nations that have legitimized Bitcoin. In the latest move, the government of the South East Asian country hinted at sanctioning virtual currencies, including Bitcoin. Absence of legal framework an obstacle for Bitcoin’s adoption. In a proposal, the Vietnamese authorities revealed that the lack of a legal framework regulating virtual currencies is robbing the country of investments. More so, just like the unfounded fear of many other governments that Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are a conduit for money laundering, smuggling, terrorism and....
Vietnam has had quite a love and hate relationship with the crypto market, where it has authorized and banned Bitcoin use on numerous occasions in the past. Le Minh Khai, the deputy prime minister of Vietnam has issued a notification to the finance ministry, asking them to explore and amend laws to build a legal framework for the digital asset market.In a notice dated March 23, the Deputy PM has instructed the Ministry of Finance to assume the prime responsibility for developing the legal framework for the crypto market. The reported list of instructions includes identifying specific legal....