BITS OF BLOCKS
BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina
Liberal Party of Korea to Liberate ICOs/IEOs (if they win)
The Liberal Party of Korea has reportedly announced a plan to push regulation and use of Blockchain with a focus on fraud prevention.
France Frees Profits on Crypto-to-Crypto trading
Last week France announced it would not be taxing crypto-to-crypto transactions, which seems a sensible solution to the cost and effort...
Tokenisation of Real Estate - Harbor steams ahead
CoinDesk reports that Harbor, Inc. has announced they have tokenised the shares of 4 real estate funds worth US$100M on the Ethereum...
OpenSC Offering Overwhelmed
Congratulations to Dermot O'Gorman and Reece Proudfoot and Markus Mutz for the announcement that OpenSC, a collaboration between WWF and...
OECD Blockchain Summit
The Australian Financial Review published an interesting summary on some of the comments from the OECD - OCDE gathering in Paris, where...
Sovereign vs Digital Currency
The Australian published an interesting opinion piece from Niall Ferguson of the The Hoover Institution, Stanford University on the rise...
Switzerland issues Stablecoin Guidance
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA, has announced supplemental guidance for stablecoins (FINMA adopts the term stable...
Amazon Advances towards decentralised future
Interesting products coming soon from Amazon: 1) Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) - spoiler alert - the reference to Quantum is more...