BITS OF BLOCKS
BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, Travers Thorp Alberga
Swiss city makes crypto legal tender
Switzerland's eighth largest city, Lugarno, has announced that it will make bitcoin legal tender, allowing its citizens to pay for public...
Bitcoin got the job! El Salvador promotes Bitcoin to legal tender
A moment of history was made when President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to make Bitcoin legal tender was recently approved by El Salvador's...
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...
India intending to innovate with digital Rupee
Following on from indications that India was warming up to a Central Bank Digital Currency, the Indian legislature has published an...
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...
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,...
Uncle Sam seizes a Billion in Bitcoin
Interest rippled through the bitcoin community recently when a digital wallet containing roughly $1 billion in stolen bitcoin — thought...
JPM Coin goes live with launch of dedicated blockchain division
JPMorgan's digital currency, JPM Coin, has made its first live commercial transaction this week by a large international technology company.
FinCEN issues first fines for Bitcoin mixing
The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued its first-ever financial penalty against a Bitcoin mixer. FinCEN, the US...
PayPal promotes payments with digital currency
PayPal announced on 21 October 2020 that it will be offering digital currencies to US customers.