Tag Archive: Bitcoin EU

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  EU’s Bitcoin Database Could Make Privacy a Thing of the Past

  The EU may set up a Bitcoin database to keep track of crypto users’ identities and wallet addresses in its bid to combat terrorist financing and money laundering. Bitcoin has had its fair share of controversy, previously being seen as the preferred medium of exchange for criminals on the black market. In addition, its high level of anonymity has raised concerns that it could be used to finance terrorism, as well as to aid in

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  Nikita Blows · December 19, 2017 · 8:30 am
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  Crypto No More? EU Plans Database Linking Users to Wallets

  Bitcoin will lose all anonymity in the European Union if governments accept proposals to make exchanges store user IDs and wallet addresses in a central database. Crypto Becomes Fiat In Sheep’s Clothing The concept, put forward by the European Commission allegedly as an anti-terrorism measure, means transactions and wallets will be directly linked to people’s identities. The EU Commission delivered the idea despite Interpol previously highlighting that terrorists actually use cryptocurrencies very little to carry

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  William Suberg · January 7, 2017 · 10:00 am
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  The Vanbex Report: Bitcoin’s Battlefronts

  April 5, 2016 — Trying to decide if Bitcoin is a currency or an investment is not unlike trying to discern whether light is a particle or a wave. The correct answer of course is, it’s both. Bitcoin faces a multitude of battlefronts that may obstruct it from further pushing into the mainstream, as a universally accepted currency. The Vanbex Report is a periodic summary of the blockchain industry’s top news stories from the biggest companies,

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  Bitcoinist.net · April 5, 2016 · 12:00 pm