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MARCH 19, 2018

It is the purpose of this Local Law to facilitate the adoption of land use and zoning and/or municipal lighting department regulations to protect and enhance the City’s natural, historic, cultural and electrical resources,” Plattsburgh said after holding a public hearing on the matter last week, according to Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

Stop ISIS, bring peace to the Middle East, clean up the economy, create more jobs, fix the education system, lower taxes, etc., Promoting bitcoin. Of course, when the former commissioner, Bart Chilton, says bitcoin, he’s talking blockchain and all digital currencies. So, why digital currencies? Oh, please.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

However, recently the People’s Bank of China pointed to irregularities in the operations of bitcoin exchanges BTCC, Huobi and OKCoin as the cause of the recent rollercoaster ride in bitcoin’s price, said Reuters. The developments are still ongoing, so PYMNTS’ Bitcoin Tracker will keep watch for new details in the coming weeks.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Who knew that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, known for their early involvement in Facebook, were in love with bitcoin? You might, when you find out that they were the first to file for a bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). And do you care?

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MARCH 30, 2018

Bitcoin fell below $7,000 on Thursday (March 29) – and analysts expect sales of bitcoin and other cryptos to increase as the April U.S. tax deadline approaches, CNBC reported. The price of bitcoin was $6,826.68 Youbit’s operating company, Yapian Corp., as of 11:13 p.m., according to CoinDesk.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The head of the country’s only licensed and publicly traded cryptocurrency broker says tighter regulation and exponentially higher yields are causing corporate treasury and cash management accounts to seriously consider this alternative asset class. This in the wake of the OCC’s Sept. This in the wake of the OCC’s Sept. The Pandemic Pop.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

BlockFi said it was “able to confirm that no funds, passwords, social security numbers, tax identification numbers, passports, licenses, bank account information, nor similar non-public identification information was exposed as a result of this incident.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

The financial center operates with its own legal, regulatory and tax infrastructure and traces its roots back to 2005. As reported by the Gulf Times , the Qatar Central Bank adopted new regulations in December that focus on combating money laundering and terrorist financing. Time will tell, of course.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

While our industry is accustomed to cryptocurrencies operating 24/7/365 (like email), fiat currencies have for the most part remained shackled to ‘banking hours’ or ‘business hours.’ If a voluntary fund cannot be established, a transactional tax should be imposed to fund the initiative.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin have been exploited to support billions of dollars of illicit activity like cyber crime, tax evasion, extortion, ransomware, illicit drugs and human trafficking,” Mnuchin said, adding that he is “not comfortable today” with the social media giant’s planned launch.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

After all, the regulatory clime has been getting a bit heated for all things crypto based – and as has been seen elsewhere in the world, such as in South Korea , all sort of stakeholders in the bitcoin/Ethereum/etc. game have been drawing increased scrutiny from regulators … everyone from exchange operators to miners.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Milan, Italy was the host of a formal bitcoin conference to address scaling and a protest conference that addressed, well, everything that the formal conference didn’t. Scaling of bitcoin is a thorny issue and one that caused some dissension at the Scaling Bitcoin conference that took place on October 8 and 9.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Just like the volatility of bitcoin, the world of blockchain is no stable place. Hype over distributed ledger technology (DLT) has certainly led to a bump in shares for companies operating in the space — and even for some companies with seemingly no connection to the tool. But it’s not all smooth sailing. million as part of the shift.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Ether, for instance, seems to have dropped in value, just as many organizations that had previously raised funds in Ether via ICO “cash out” so as to finance their operations and pay for expenses, Bloomberg said. This week, U.S. It’s another gap in the market giving rise to FinTech firms addressing this issue.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Cryptocurrency has come a long way since bitcoin’s emergence as an unregulated, anonymous payment technology. which the institution plans to deploy in its corporate payments operation. BitRail doesn’t yet operate in the B2B payments space. “I think the future of B2B payments is cryptocurrency,” he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Governments may not be too keen on bitcoin, but blockchain is another story. Financial regulators may want to begin looking at not only regulating blockchain, but how blockchain can help in their own regulatory efforts — in this case, to ensure proper safeguards and controls in the banking sector.

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JULY 24, 2018

In just one of the latest, a suit filed earlier this month in California has said the token was born to fund Ripple operations, and the token sales have had “all the traditional hallmarks” of securities – all except the registration as such. Might we assume that people are jumping off here, and oh, bidding up bitcoin ?

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JANUARY 29, 2018

Headlines swirl around the price of bitcoin and its cryptocurrency cousins, around psychological barriers tied to $10,000 thresholds, around raids on suspect operators, around tax rates in South Korea and hacks of crypto exchanges. Operating as a U.S. May there be an opportunity to play on existing and regulated rails?

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MyBankTracker

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Some investors feel that sin stocks are uniquely positioned to maintain their value and continue to grow while others prefer to avoid sin stocks because of the way they operate. Typically, companies that operate in industries considered immoral or unethical are grouped together as sin stocks. Subject to additional taxes.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

On the global stage, bitcoin fell below $7,000 to just above $6,800, and Ripple slipped to its lowest price since the end of 2017. Here in the United States, tax season looms, of course, which may put additional pressure on cryptos. As of the end of the week, at least one firm, Mattervest, said it had shuttered operations.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 9, 2015

While there are dozens of bitcoin trading platforms available to people looking to buy and sell bitcoin, itBit easily differentiates itself from the masses. This is what sets the New York-based company apart from its numerous competitors– it is the only regulated bitcoin trading platform open to all U.S.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

In his brand new book, “ The Curse of Cash ,” Rogoff also devotes a fair number of his pages to Central Banks’ inability to regulate monetary policy because, among other things, there’s too much cash being hoarded by people who are, by and large, engaging in bad behavior with it. Reality Check: Bitcoin Is For Criminals. Why bitcoin?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Payments for goods between suppliers, wholesalers and retail distributors are in cash; payments to employees are in cash; tax payments are in cash; even paying the power company and water bill are contingent on cash. The exchange we are working on building will be up and launched by Jan.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Through blockchain, companies could fundraise without stocks, operate without bank accounts, or pay employees without even knowing their names. Conventional wisdom dictates that startups should incorporate with taxes and stock options in mind. Bitcoin miners, for example, incur costs for electricity and computing rigs.

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Banking 2020

DECEMBER 3, 2015

It also noted that banks have found it challenging to develop new propositions to meet these demands – partly because of their reliance on legacy systems and partly because they are more constrained by regulations. The final key driver of hidden payments is virtual currencies, with Bitcoin the most famous of these.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

you get paid some market-clearing interest rate to loan out assets like Bitcoin, which someone is borrowing for a trading or hedging purpose. This financial commitment also performs the function of securing the historic accuracy of the data on the chain itself, like electricity-consuming mining does in Bitcoin.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Like taxes. Targeting banks and money services businesses allows for jurisdiction and regulation of the choke points (i.e., Assets at the giant, federally regulated banks like Citi and JP Morgan, are ballooning. This is the way.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Like taxes. Targeting banks and money services businesses allows for jurisdiction and regulation of the choke points (i.e., Assets at the giant, federally regulated banks like Citi and JP Morgan, are ballooning. This is the way.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

To get a bit more granular, in an interpretive letter , the OCC said that regulated financial institutions (FIs) can participate in independent node verification networks (INVN for short – namely, a blockchain network).

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 8, 2017

I believe that we are in this era of weak growth, now eight years old, for the long haul unless changes are made to regulation and we stop adding debt at break-neck speed. Recently, we have seen ransomware virtually cripple company’s networks and Internet access, as criminals exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

It’s well-known that cryptocurrencies — which of course come in a myriad of flavors, to entice any number of investors (OK, yes, speculators too) to put up their hard-earned fiat — are moving from the Wild West to the ever-watchful eyes of regulators. The idea of an altcoin is that it serves as an alternative to bitcoin.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. The regulator and media pressure on overdraft fees has been a constant challenge to overdraft revenue. We aren’t talking just Bitcoin or Ethereum. regulated financial institutions! Has to be M-O-E.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Blockchain and crypto companies may be operating with cutting-edge technology, but in the back-office, accounting and bookkeeping strategies are stuck in the stone age. He added that accounting solutions have to be able to connect directly into the dozens of cryptocurrency exchanges in operation today where crypto-trading occurs.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In the early 70s, See’s was able to produce about $2M a year (after tax) on just $8M in net tangible assets (including all accounts receivable.) Berkshire Hathaway bought See’s, and by 1982, it was up to producing $13M after taxes on just $20M in net tangible assets. That premium is the company’s “economic goodwill.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

A startup in Singapore offering bitcoin exchange and cryptocurrency services just secured another major round of funding. According to reports, Quoine is the largest bitcoin exchange that operates in a major bitcoin market, Japan, as it has $50 million bitcoins transacted over its exchange per day.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

On July 9, 2016, just eight days away, the bitcoin market is going to change. As for the impact of that change, it’s all speculation for now, but just the chatter around bitcoin’s halving event has sent its prices fluctuating a bit more than normal. bitcoins instead of 25 bitcoins. We’ll find out July 9.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

Avalara will detail the Weird and Wacky World of Sales Tax. Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S. There are over 12,000 taxing jurisdictions covering millions of taxability rule combinations. Blockcypher will explain how Bitcoin and block chains enable programmable money. It embraced Bitcoin and Ripple two years ago.

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