It is not uncommon to see regulatory requests for cryptocurrency-focused businesses to split activities into 2 parts: regulated and non-regulated. For example, the licensed (e.g. regulated) entity may be dedicated to operations with fiat funds and fiat deposits, and non-regulated entity would be facilitating transactions with cryptocurrencies or managing cryptocurrency wallets. Read more…
My biggest takeaway from reading the Liechtenstein Blockchain (they named it “TT” for “trustworthy technology” – to ensure that the law is technology-neutral) Act draft version is that many of its provisions make a lot of sense. I really liked how a token is defined as a representation of any Read more…
Courtesy of Pavel Afanasiev Entirely aside from the fact that Dublin is a phenomenal city that unifies greenery, industrialism and (post-?) modernity in a successful marriage, it was a great place to host this year’s MoneyConf! On top of being the obvious entry gate into Europe for foreign tech firms Read more…
People ask me these questions over and over again, and it’s visibly (or digitally) clear how furious and annoyed they are. Their main complaint is that crypto is supposed to be the most democratizing and omni-accessible service, this is why it was created in the first place, which is why Read more…
This was a conference very much focused on content quality and, perhaps, less on self-marketing: A relatively tight group of academic researchers, regulators, lawyers, technologists, government officials and entrepreneurs came together for a couple of days to discuss various aspects of P2P financials and of blockchain. Frankly, from the learning Read more…