India needs crypto rules to resolve regulatory uncertainty, protect investors and boost the sector, CoinSwitch CEO Ashish Singhal said on Sunday, as reported by Reuters. “Users don’t know what will happen with their holdings — is government going to ban, not ban,” Singhal, who co-founded CoinSwitch, told Reuters at the World Economic Forum in Davos. […]
A court of appeals in Russia has overturned a ruling by a regional court which allowed the blocking of the Tor Project’s website in the country. Due to violations during the initial proceedings, the case has been returned to the court of the first instance for another review. Roskomsvoboda Helps Cancel the Blocking of Tor […]
It’s rulemaking season over at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Which means lobbying groups and think tanks focused on cryptocurrency are on high alert. Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group Coin Center is directing attention to the SEC’s proposed redefinition of the term «exchange» within the Securities Exchange Act to «include systems that offer the use […]
A new rule proposed by the SEC to expand its definition of “exchange” will unfairly subject developers and publishers to registration requirements and violates the US Constitution, nonprofit research group Coin Center said Thursday. The SEC revealed a proposed rule, in March, that would classify as exchanges entities that bring “buyers and sellers” together and […]
The ongoing matter of the circulation of digital currencies and the mining of such assets in Russia has been a talking point for some time now. The draft legislation on regulating the circulation of digital currencies in Russia, finalized by the Ministry of Finance, provides a rigorous regulatory framework and, for the first time, addresses […]