A Texas state legislator and a French National Assembly deputy have both called for legal bans on anonymous cryptocurrencies recently.
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EU will focus on crypto regulation in 2019
A pair of reports issued this month call for expanded and unified banking and securities rules for crypto-assets
The European Union began the new year with a new focus on the regulation of cryptocurrencies, with a pair of reports finding that neither EU banking nor securities laws are currently up to the task of overseeing these new financial assets.
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Representatives of seven Southern European countries after signing a joint declaration promoting the use of blockchain technology in providing government services. Representatives from Italy, Portugal, and Spain are inexplicably shielding themselves (photo by Ray Attard via Prime Minister Silvio Schembri's Twitter account).Southern Europe stakes a claim to blockchain leadership
Seven EU members including France, Spain, and Italy commit to advancing blockchain law and technology
Seven European Union member states including France, Spain, and Italy have signed a joint declaration committing them to promoting the use of blockchain technology in providing government services. Led by Malta, which has been positioning itself as the EU’s “Blockchain Island,” the seven Mediterranean nations on Dec. 4 announced their “forward-looking vision to make Southern Europe a leader on emerging technologies, such as Distributed Ledger Technologies,” another name for the blockchain technology underlying cryptocurrencies. “We believe that Distributed Ledger Technologies could be one of the instruments that can help our countries transform their economies and society into truly digital ones and become a leading region in this sector,” the declaration…
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Two things the Reserve Bank of India says shouldn't go together: crypto and rupees (via Shutterstock)As India bans cryptocurrencies, Thailand, South Korea, Switzerland, and the EU embrace them
India’s Supreme Court upholds Reserve Bank of India’s crypto ban
India is thought of as a tech giant but there’s one technology it doesn’t like, even while other parts of the world do: crypto. India’s Supreme Court has decided to keep in place a cryptocurrency ban on regulated financial institutions announced by the country’s central bank three months ago. This basically dries up a large portion of the crypto market in the second-most populous nation in the world. On April 5, the Reserve Bank of India issued at statement saying, among other things: “In view of the associated risks, it has been decided that, with immediate effect, entities regulated by RBI shall not deal with or provide services to any…
