Crypto and Laws

• The Bitcoin Game # 20 - Transforming to Digital Currency

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 281

  Hello, welcome to episode 20 of The Bitcoin Game , I'm Rob Mitchell. On April 18th, 2015, Los Angeles Bitcoiners were treated to our city?'?s...

• The Bitcoin Game #18 - Jeremy Gardner & Adam Hayes

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 297

  Hello, welcome to episode 18 of The Bitcoin Game , I'm Rob Mitchell. In today's show we start with a presentation by Jeremy Gardner, who...

• The Bitcoin Game #14 - Cryptocurrency Regulation Talk from the Texas Bitcoin Conference

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 261

  Welcome to episode 14 of The Bitcoin Game , I'm Rob Mitchell. I recently attended the Texas Bitcoin Conference, and had a great time. I got to...

• A Chinese Lawyer's Thoughts on Crypto

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 250

  China has recently surpassed the US as the world's biggest economy, and although China has had problems with its shadow banking system,...

• Bitcoin in Middle Earth: A Trip to Queenstown, NZ

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 269

  In November, I went all over the world?'”Vegas to Melbourne, then Sydney to Queenstown. I haven't posted everything from this trip yet,...

• Erik Voorhees Explains Why Some Bitcoin Companies Are Blocking American Users

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 299

  Although Americans generally believe that they live in the home of free markets , the United States' role as a leader of economic freedom has been...

• Independence Bancshares Studying Virtual Currencies

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 263

  Independence Bancshares - a publicly traded (albeit thinly on the OTC:QX), FDIC-insured, community-based bank in Greenville, South Carolina -...

• United States to Monitor Canadian Border for Illicit Drug-Related Bitcoin Transactions

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 271

  Recent publications by the US federal government indicate that Bitcoin will likely be used in illicit cross-border transactions, and that the...

• Long-Arm Lawsky, Part II: Interstate Commerce

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 245

  The BitLicense is getting a lot of attention these days because it is the first significant regulatory attempt by a US authority to proscribe...

• Long-Arm Lawsky, Part I: Statutory Authority

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 265

  There are a lot of reasons to dislike the BitLicense regulations proposed by Ben Lawsky and his New York Department of Financial Services (DFS)....

• DEA Seizes Bitcoin: Seizure Points to Earlier Mistaken Identity

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 268

  The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) appears to be involved in a case of mistaken identity over last year's seizure of 11.02 BTC. The DEA...

• The Blockchain, the BitLicense, and the High Costs of Compliance

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 256

  Since the release of the proposed New York Department of Financial Services' (DFS) BitLicense regulations on July 23, 2014, the crypto community...

• Death and Bitcoin

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 441

  What happens to your bitcoins when you die? For some of us outliers in the US cryptocurrency community, those of us old enough to have grown up...

• International Monetary Fund Asserts Bitcoin Not a Currency in Draft Report

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 280

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is currently drafting a "Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual & Compilation." The document has a "Draft"...

• Banks Issue Bitcoin Report: Bitcoin Community Absent

  8-9-2016 Crypto and Laws Lets Talk Bitcoin 236

  Recently I took out Twitter to note my surprise that only a handful of folks have bothered to watch the " Conference of State Bank Supervisors...