BITS OF BLOCKS
BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, Travers Thorp Alberga
PayPal launches 'Checkout with Crypto'
Major payments businesses are racing to launch digital currency services, with PayPal announcing that their customers in the US "will be...
Greenback Goes Digital: US CDBC coming soon?
Mixed messages in the US concerning Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) have made it difficult to predict whether the US Federal...
BTC Markets ISO 27001 certified
The ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems Standard sets the bar for the best practice information security management. BTC...
Ripple - built for a CBDC?
Research shows that 80% of central banks worldwide are engaging in central bank digital currency (CBDC) related research, with banks...
China makes it rain centralised digital currency
Winners of a government lottery to test the eCNY are singing their praises (paywalled) for the new national digital currency. As an...
Canada's VersaBank's very innovative commercial digital money released
Not only has Canada listed one of the first Bitcoin and Ether exchange traded funds the Toronto Stock Exchange, Canadian bank VersaBank...
Mastercard, Visa and Bahama's CBDC
Digital currencies are entering to the Mastercard network and will soon be available globally to card holders. Mastercard recently...
Crypto crime concentrated in 270 connected wallets
Reading articles on digital currency in the business press, you would be forgiven for thinking that digital currency is just used by...
Digital currencies valuable to Visa's vision
During a recent Q1 Earnings Call, Visa's Chairman and CEO Alfred Kelly took the opportunity to clarify Visa's approach to digital...
Digital currencies cruise into the Davos World Economic Forum discussion
Since 1971 the World Economic Forum has considered a broad range of matters impacting the global public interest. It does this by...
Aussie press muses Bitcoin as a gold replacement...
With Bitcoin's meteoric price rise over Christmas and the New Year, today kicked off with two of Australia's more conservative media...
Libra seizes the ‘day’ with rebranding
The launch of Libra back in June 2019 drew swathes of attention as the Libra Association attempted to create a compliant digital currency...
China challenges G20 to charge on with CBDC co-operation
Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping urged G20 meeting attendees to support digital currency and advised that member countries should...
Getting paid with bitcoin: BitPay launches a new payroll service
Bitcoin payments provider BitPay recently announced a new service: “BitPay Send”, a neat new way for businesses to pay employees,...
Demand for digital currencies offered by PayPal to be significantly bolstered
PayPal reinforces importance of digital currencies and the inevitability of CBDCs in recent earnings call.