EU Imposes Banking Rules on Cryptocurrencies Without Granting Banking Rights: Expert
The Bitcoin community has reacted to the European Union's announcement that digital currency control will be on its list of priorities in 2017. Matthias Klees, a founding member of LocalCrypto and the CEO of EuropeCoin, has called on the cryptocurrency community not to contribute to confusion caused by incorrect wording. Impossible to regulate. Klees states: "The barrier to understanding cryptocurrency, for an average person, is high enough. Wrong wordings are preventing the public from understanding what is going on. The European Union is trying to regulate cryptocurrency businesses,....
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