Laws

The Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) has recently affirmed that cryptocurrencies, specifically bitcoin and several of its hard forks, are considered legal property and Chinese citizens have a right to own and transfer them.

The law offices of Pomerantz LLP in New York have filed a series of civil suits against MGT Capital Investment and its executive officers on behalf of several of the trading firm’s past or present customers.

The bills-turned-law detail the regulation of ICOs and cryptocurrencies and the process for setting up crypto-based businesses in Malta. The developments make Malta the first country to enact such laws.

Darknet marketplace Hansa was seized in a multi-agency investigation led by the FBI and the DEA with the support of Europol.

As Bitcoin is adopted by more users every day, the need to determine how it can integrate into mainstream society becomes even more pressing....

On April 7, attorneys and tech luminaries gathered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, for “Blockchain and the Law,” a conference dedicated to the...

Tokenization is the process of converting rights to an asset into a digital token on a blockchain. There is great interest by financial intermediaries...

It appears that the Venezuelan authorities have had enough of Bitcoin. Over the past two weeks, police in the Latin American country arrested eight...

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) initiated meetings this week with leading bitcoin exchanges in both Beijing and Shanghai. PBOC representatives in Beijing met...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has advised that the European Commission establish a regulatory regime specific to virtual currencies such as bitcoin. Commenting on the commission’s proposal...