Colombia, Estonia Upload the Bitcoin White Paper to Their Governmental Websites

During the last few days, the cryptocurrency community has been discussing the recent action taken by Craig Wright’s lawyers against web portals that host the original Bitcoin white paper. Recently letters were sent to a number of websites requesting the removal of the paper due to alleged copyright infringement. **Editor’s Update 1/21/21 @1:15 p.m. (EST): At some point during the day, the owner of the web portal bitcoin.org, Cobra, deleted his tweet (quoted below) concerning the locked white paper removal conversation on Github. The conversation was locked for being “too....

Back in January, the notorious Craig Wright who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto had his lawyers send letters to a number of websites like bitcoin.org telling them to remove the Bitcoin white paper hosted on their web portals. On January 31, bitcoin.org’s owner Cobra claimed he was threatened by a Bitcoinsv supporter after the person discovered the anonymous owner’s phone number. Moreover, the organization Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) has sent a letter to Wright’s legal team seeking more information regarding the claims of copyright ownership. Cobra Refuses to Stop....

Colombia may ban Bitcoin transactions next week. El Tiempo is reporting that Colombia is planning to ban all Bitcoin-related transactions next week. This news comes as quite a shock because the fact of the matter is Colombia is not exactly the first country that people think about when it comes to hotspots of cryptocurrency. The Finance Superintendent of Colombia has claimed that virtual currencies are not safe because they have no backing from government. He claims that Colombia already has a safe and useful currency and there's no reason for people to use bitcoins. The El Tiempo article....

Thomson Reuters has published a white paper detailing the challenge for law enforcement with digital currencies and how they can be used for money laundering. The paper is mainly an educational article and serves as an introduction to the problem of money laundering and digital currencies. The paper starts by quoting the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which is an international group involving 36 countries that money laundering is at the level of between two and five percent of global GDP, i.e. $1.38 trillion to $3.45 trillion. This is a rough estimate as, by the definition of the....

Trammell was one of the first to recognize Bitcoin’s potential and offers unique perspective for Bitcoiners celebrating White Paper Day 2022.