In this opinion piece, technology lawyer Cameron-Huff discusses why he believes it's too early for regulators to craft rules for blockchain tech.
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The answer to questions about whether financial regulators will help propel blockchain technology may come sooner rather than later. 
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The “central banker’s central bank” is backing blockchain technology. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), an organization whose membership consists of the central banks of 60 nations.
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A Georgetown University professor thinks that the US Government should issue its own crypto currency.
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As Bitcoin businesses become compliant with financial regulation, they're eschewing anonymity -- and the Bitcoin community is not happy. Bitcoin ATM Robocoin stated yesterday that all of its ATM op...
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Retailers worldwide increasingly see Bitcoin as just another payment method but governments are suspicious it is a rival to currency.
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Napster, a revolutionary peer-to-peer service, aimed to change music before its fall. Could bitcoin face the same fate? (Wrong example @danielcawrey Napster was a company, #Bitcoin is a technology.
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New York’s proposed bitcoin regulations have been the subject of increasing criticism in recent weeks, with a wide variety of industry leaders coming forward to criticize the laws for their lack of clarity and for putting up unnecessary obstacles to the ecosysem’s future growth.
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In addition to Blocksign’s Bitcoin-based electric signature launch on Tuesday, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne is signaling that the UK wants to regulate Bitcoin, or virtual currency systems like it, as legal, digital cash, reports the Daily Mail.
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Now that consumers can use digital currencies such as Bitcoin to buy rugs from Overstock.com, pay for Peruvian pork sandwiches from a food truck in ... (Digital Currency debate making the local papers in Pittsburgh via @triblive.
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Chancellor George Osborne said the review would look into the potential of "alternative payment systems" to boost UK growth and would include an assessment of the need to regulate the use of virtual currencies in transactions.
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Scandals keep occurring, even after the financial crisis, raising the uncomfortable possibility that the industry is fundamentally flawed. (Why are the ethical breaches at megabanks so routine that it is hard to keep them straight?
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According to the proposed 17th July bitcoin regulation from New York State, the public now has 45 days to comment and then a 45-day grace period prior to full adoption. But what’s after 17th October? More importantly, what’s after New York?
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A community without dollars is not a community without wealth – this basic insight lies at the heart of the community resilience movement. With income and wealth inequality still on the rise in our “post-recession” economy, communities are finding creative ways to meet their needs and maintain social ties through community-created forms of exchange, or complementary currencies. And, as with most social innovations, existing legal and regulatory systems take some time to catch up.
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I've warned people repeatedly about the fact that regulators are not our friends -- so the onerous proposal came as no surprise. Many Bitcoiners seemed shocked and caught off guard that the proposal could be so unrealistically strict. Some examples include Bitcoin companies being unable to retain profits in Bitcoin, requirements that small startups hire expensive compliance personnel, requirements that inventors and programmers obtain a license before creating new alt coins, rules which would essentially end mining etc. The regulations are at the core a thinly veiled ban of Bitcoin in New York.
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Bitcoin allows people to build financial technology without asking for permission, but if New York state has its way, this won't be the case for long.
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CoinDesk TNABC Day 1: Bitcoin Industry Seeks Plan of Attack for US Regulation CoinDesk Day one of the North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago kicked off with the surprise debut of the Chamber of Digital Commerce plus a new bitcoin-focused...
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On Thursday, Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent for New York’s Department of Financial Services, proposednew rules for virtual currency businesses. The “BitLicense” plan, which if approved would apply to all companies that store, control, buy, sell, transfer, or exchange Bitcoins (or other cryptocurrency), makes New York the first state to attempt virtual currency regulation.
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A couple of weeks ago California officially killed a law prohibiting the use of any currency that's not the “lawful money of the United States,” like community currencies, frequent customer points, or bitcoin.
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Three Italian institutions have issued new bitcoin warnings in recent days, calling for new legislation to eliminate loopholes and regulatory ambiguity.
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