“The most telling thing about the entrapment prosecution is the sentencing memo, which blatantly lays out the feds’ fear and contempt for any attempt to keep a financial transaction private, whether or not anything inherently illegal is happening.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/17/entrapment-prosecution-of-bitcoin-exchan
“At the intersection of programming, economics, cryptography, distributed systems, information theory, and math, you will find Vitalik Buterin, who has managed to synthesize insights across those fields into successful, real-world applications like Ethereum, which aims to decentralize the Internet.”
“That the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, BIS, JPMorganChase, and IMF refuse to answer the questions spelled out here shows that they fear that exposure can beat them.”
Read more: http://www.gata.org/node/18368
“No research was done and no panel formed by the banking regulator before coming down heavily on the exchanges.”
Read more: https://qz.com/1321076/bitcoin-ban-how-rbi-choked-indias-cryptocurrency-ecosystem/
“In a formal address to Congress, the U.S. Secret Service issued a stern warning regarding the illicit use of digital currencies that could have severe implications for possible future legislation.”
Read more: https://bitsonline.com/u-s-secret-service-to-congress-address-criminal-use-of-cryptocurrency-now/
“Private polls—and a timely ‘concession’ from the face of Leave—allowed the funds to make millions off the pound’s collapse.”
“There were two big temptations to the American Republic of the 1950s; subsequent generations gave in to both of them.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/ike-was-right/
“A panel formed by the government to look into crypto-currency does not seem to be in favour of banning it. Instead, it may suggest allowing crypto-currency with riders, ETNow reported quoting Cogencis. ”
“The Bank for International Settlements just told the cryptocurrency world it’s not ready for prime time — and as far as mainstream financial services go, may never be.”
“The collapse of the peso comes despite an endless series of measures to halt it.”