• Coinbase IRS contract
    Brian Armstrong didn't think deals with the Secret Service and IRS were "particularly newsworthy." Readers disagreed. (Photo: Techcrunch)
    Cryptocurrencies,  Regulation

    First the feds, now the taxman: Coinbase inks $125K deal with IRS

    The latest contract has the potential to alienate Coinbase’s exchange users—as some are concerned data about their transactions could be passed on to government agencies

    July 17, 2020 /

    Fresh from infuriating some customers after offering blockchain analytics software to the U.S. Secret Service, Coinbase has inked an even more lucrative deal… with the taxman. Records uploaded to a government website show the crypto company signed a contract with the Internal Revenue Service on July 14 that’s worth at least $125,000.

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  • Mural "tankman" in memory of the Tiananmen massacre of 1989. Vogelsanger Straße 283, 50825 Köln-Ehrenfeld (via Wiki Commons).
    Asia & Australia,  Opinion,  Technology

    30 Years Later, Tiananmen Square a reminder of Chinese threat to innovation

    China may be able to add another arrow to its quiver of intellectual theft: cryptocurrencies

    June 4, 2019 /

    The most promising aspects of digital assets—transactional speed and freedom, financial inclusion, and most of all anonymity—are antithetical to Chinese Communist values. And yet, in many respects, China has taken the lead on investing in this burgeoning technology.

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