Justice entities in Brazil propose to build a research methodology to deal with money laundering cases with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
The discussion on the subject will take place in an institutional association, known in Brazil as the National Strategy...
With BitPay, companies can avoid worrying about "chargeback fraud and identity theft". Customers can pay without delivering confidential personal information, and reimbursements are made through the merchant with no chargebacks.
This Monday, the famous bitcoin payment processor, BitPay, informed that...
The Asian crypto-world was shocked this Wednesday when it was revealed that the exchange platform Zaif suffered a hacking attack that reported losses of 6.7 billion yen, or the equivalent of $59.67 million, according to Reuters. Zaif belongs...
The Justice Department of the Chinese city, Zhongshan, recently developed a blockchain-based system with the capability of tracking the movements of ex-convicts on condition of conditional freedom in the city, in order to improve the "community correction”....
Many people seem to think that cryptocurrency is a legitimate response to the “evils” visited upon the world by banks, Wall Street and other intermediaries. They see the mainstream world of finance as corrupt and predatory. Many...
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded the blockchain project Factom with $193,380 to support the testing of a platform that aims to secure information from border police cameras and sensors, the Department announced last Friday.
This project...
After the cryptocurrency “boom” of the past few months, many states in the US have found themselves in the need to update their legislatures, in order to make sure any new concepts are properly treated within the...
The Venezuelan government recently banned the import of cryptocurrency mining equipment.
Venezuela has been highlighted by crypto-specialized media in recent months, kicked off by the announcement of the Petro, as a new national, petroleum based, “cryptocurrency” and the increasing...
United Kingdom authorities have opened a 24 investigation into cryptocurrency businesses over financial regulatory compliance issues.
As the local media outlet, CityWire, reported on May 25th, responding to a freedom of information request, UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...
This week Quebec´s Chief Scientist, Rémi Quirion, published an article “Fact Check on Bitcoin”, examining the belief that Bitcoin is an “index of money laundering,” as BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink said in the last weeks.
Investigations concluded that there...
