At 17 years old, Louison Dumont is the youngest-ever entrepreneur to be accepted into Boost VC, the California incubator that has so far nurtured five batches of mostly bitcoin startups, but he’s not short on experience. Having started mining bitcoin at the age of 13, Dumont boasts more maturity than many in the still-nascent industry […]

Jared Marx is an attorney at Washington, DC law firm Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis. He advises companies about bitcoin-related regulatory law and represents companies and individuals in civil and criminal proceedings. Here, he discusses why securities law is problematic for bitcoin 2.0 companies operating in the US. It is now almost commonplace to see a crypto 2.0 company raise development […]

Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly look at global bitcoin news, analysing media coverage and its impact. The UK Treasury set the tone for a positive, if quiet, bitcoin news cycle this week with the publication of a lengthy report that promised the industry will soon be regulated domestically. Continue reading at CoinDesk Powered by WPeMatico

The Ukrainian government is planning to block bitcoin accounts used by separatists operating in the Eastern regions of Lugansk and Donetsk, reports suggest. Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, the chairman of Ukraine’s security service (SBU) told iPress that the crackdown would also focus on card and bank accounts. Nalyvaychenko noted: Continue reading at CoinDesk Powered by WPeMatico

This week’s news that the UK government will seek to regulate digital currencies made waves in the local startup community. The UK Treasury report, revealed on Wednesday as part of chancellor George Osborne’s annual budget, outlined plans to curb criminal activity via AML (anti-money laundering) regulation and allow digital currency companies to opt-in to standardised consumer protections […]