Dec 4, 2019UK: The New Anti-Money Laundering Rules for Crypto Asset Firms..And what UK crypto businesses need to do now. New Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) rules are coming into force for crypto firms in the UK from 10 January 2020, and I will briefly explain them here. The UK already has detailed laws and regulations to prevent money laundering. Many businesses (such…Bitcoin4 min read
Aug 8, 2018Bitcoin ETF Status: The Basics (Aug 2018)So, the crypto market is falling through the floor today. Again. It appears that the market is spooked by the SEC’s decision to postpone a decision on approval for a Bitcoin ETF to be listed on the CBOE. I keep answering the same questions about this, so I thought I’d…Investing5 min read
Apr 5, 2018India Bitcoin Crackdown: Myth and RealityThe Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”), India’s central bank has just announced a crackdown on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies today. There are rumours flying about what exactly they’ve done and what the implications are, so I thought I would write a short explainer. …Bitcoin5 min read
Mar 28, 2018Child Abuse Content on the Blockchain: Some Legal IssuesSo, another day, another crypto controversy. News broke a few days ago that some German researchers from RWTH Aachen University and Goethe University have found objectionable data stored on the Bitcoin blockchain. …Bitcoin19 min read
Feb 9, 2018MyEtherWallet & MyCrypto — the litigation story between Kosala “kvhnuke” Hemachandra and Taylor “tayvano” MonahanSo here I am, reading my daily news update, and I see tayvano’s post announcing she has left MEW (which apparently remains in kvhnuke’s control) and set up what appears to be a competing forked Ether wallet called MyCrypto. Kvhnuke has just responded with a statement on Reddit. Neither of…Blockchain5 min read
