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Virtual Currency (aka Digital Currency or Digital Money) is a type of currency or medium of exchange that is not issued by any government nor guaranteed by a government currency. Despite lacking legal tender status, Virtual Currency is still traded and exchanged in some environments, typically online environments or communities. Bitcoin is the most well-known form of Virtual Currency. less -

The North Korean Crypto Threat

K2 Integrity on 10/17/2022

Executive Summary - The North Korean threat to the crypto ecosystem is the highest form of immediate risk to the crypto-economy driven by a regime that seeks to profit from its misuse to reinforce its regime and fuel all its...more

What You Need to Know About Virtual Assets Law in the UAE?

Awatif Mohammad Shoqi Advocates & Legal... on 5/9/2022

Virtual asset is an innovative technology representing value which could be stored, traded, transferred or used as a payment tool in a digital form. Bitcoin, crypto assets, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are all virtual assets. ...more

Gold Is The New Bitcoin

Goodwin on 8/11/2020

In 2020, the price of gold has jumped over 30 percent from $1,517 per ounce on January 3, 2020 to over $2,000 per ounce on August 6, 2020. The spike in the price of gold isn’t yet at the level reached in the 2017 Bitcoin boom...more

BitBlog Weekly Summary

Polsinelli on 9/18/2019

This week’s summary includes updates on anti-money laundering in the crypto-friendly nation of Malta and a proposal to regulate cryptocurrency miners in the United States to help stop human trafficking....more

FinCEN Releases Advisory for Banks, MSBs on Potentially Illicit Transactions with Iran

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/23/2018

• On October 11, 2018, FinCEN released an advisory to help U.S. financial institutions better detect potentially illicit transactions related to Iran. • The advisory describes how Iran attempts to access the international...more

Bitcoin - Big Bounce Back - Part Six

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 1/23/2014

The nature and prospects of “virtual currencies”, and bitcoin in particular, have been keenly debated. In early December 2013, Chinese government authorities took the first steps towards defining and regulating virtual...more

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