2024-3-22 16:00 |
The majority of the EU Parliament’s lead committees approved a new legislative move to ban anonymous crypto payments has ignited a firestorm of debate, marking a pivotal moment in the regulation of digital currencies within the bloc. origin »
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The taxes will be lowered to 7% from the current taxation sliding scale of either 19% or 25%. Also, cryptocurrency payments of up to 2400 euros will not be taxed. Slovakia is one of the 27 member states of the European Union that recently adopted MiCA.
2023-6-29 14:39 | |
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The Bank of England plans on releasing a consultation proposal by the end of the year, Jon Cunliffe said at Innovate Finance’s annual global summit.
2023-4-18 19:17 | |
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The lower house of the parliament voted in favor of adding crypto assets to the scope of activities to be regulated via the proposed Financial Services and Markets Bill – which already seeks to extend payments rules to stablecoins.
2022-10-26 18:31 | |
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Russia’s Parliament is also considering two other bills related to digital assets: regulating miners’ activities, and requirements for firms handling crypto transactions.
2022-7-16 20:00 | |
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The European Parliament also wants to curb payments to tax havens and check people’s identity even for payments between unhosted wallets, internal papers reveal.
2022-3-26 21:32 | |
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A senator in the Uruguayan parliament, Senator Juan Satori has joined the league of politicians supporting Bitcoin as he recently introduced a draft bill that proposes the regulation and enablement of the adoption of crypto payments by businesses.
2021-8-6 13:00 | |
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A bill drafted by the Iranian Parliament’s Economic Commission is to set out a framework for regulating cryptos that includes plans to develop a national cryptocurrency. The bill titled “support...
2021-7-2 18:25 | |
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The Parliament of the Republic adopted a law providing for the creation of infrastructure for accepting cryptocurrency payments in the country on an official basis. In the near future, the document of the law will be signed by the President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele.
2021-6-9 13:48 | |
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The members of the lower house of Russia’s parliament, Duma, are working amending on crypto laws in the country. These amendments seek to allow the use of cryptocurrencies in settling contracts.
2021-5-25 21:42 | |
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On Friday, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, signed one of the two digital assets bills into law, Russian media outlet RIA reports. The new law was passed by Russia’s parliament, Duma, last week and states that firms can provide virtual securities on blockchain platforms provided they are well registered with the country’s central bank, Bank of […]
2020-7-31 22:04 | |
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The Russian parliament adopted a bill on digital financial assets, which contains a clause prohibiting payments for goods and services in cryptocurrencies. However, it is officially allowed to own and buy cryptocurrency and blockchain tokens.
2020-7-26 00:08 | |
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Pundi X, a cryptocurrency payment technology ecosystem, announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cyprus-based artificial intelligence firm Borghese Ventures to explore the implementation of blockchain technology for private and public sectors based in Cyprus The signing on November 9th was witnessed by H.
2019-11-11 14:40 | |
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Sweden’s central bank has its parliament to form a committee to review what constitutes legal tender in the country. Originally reported by Bloomberg’s Amanda Billner, the new committee will give a definitive answer on the definition of legal tender as Sweden increasingly moves away from cash to credit and debit cards for paying for goods and services.
2019-5-3 12:00 | |
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The Finland-based, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform LocalBitcoins released a statement on March 25, 2019, responding to a new act approved by the Finnish Parliament that will require users to verify their identities.
2019-3-28 18:00 | |
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UK Member of Parliament, Eddie Hughes, has called for local authorities to take a lead, and accept Bitcoin payments. The Conservative politician also believes that a lack of reliable information is holding back wider adoption.
2018-12-12 01:00 | |
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A conservative member (MP) of the United Kingdom’s Parliament has said that making payments to local authorities and utility providers with Bitcoin (BTC) should be possible, local news outlet Express reported on December 10.
2018-12-11 09:44 | |
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Featured The parliament of Antigua and Barbuda has amended the country’s Citizenship by Investment Programme Act to accept payments in the form of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. With Antigua and Barbuda’s citizenship by way of investment into its National Development Fund having been reduced to a cost of $100,000 USD last year, the price of
2018-7-28 23:24 | |
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The parliament of Antigua and Barbuda has amended the country’s Citizenship by Investment Programme Act to accept payments in the form of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. With Antigua and Barbuda’s citizenship by way of investment into its National Development Fund having been reduced to a cost of $100,000 USD last year, the price of citizenship […] The post You Can Become a Citizen of Antigua and Barbuda for Less Than 13 BTC appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-7-27 19:15 | |
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Becoming a citizen of the Eastern Caribbean jewel, Antigua and Barbuda is now made very comfortable to be, with the new parliamentary act that allows fulfilling Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP) Act, by payments of Bitcoin Cash BCH and other cryptocurrencies.
2018-7-25 19:45 | |
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AlphaTON Capital Corp. (Nasdaq: ATON) has announced a strategic partnership with SingularityNET, CUDO Compute, and Vertical Data to accelerate the development and deployment of Telegram’s Cocoon AI network.
Sky is the latest cryptocurrency to have an exchange-traded product in Europe, thanks to Valour Inc., a subsidiary of publicly traded DeFi Technologies. Valour announced the launch of its new exchange-traded product tracking the governance token of decentralized finance protocol…
Boerse Stuttgart Group has launched Seturion, a blockchain-based settlement platform designed to handle cross-border tokenized asset trades in Europe. Seturion is being touted as the “first digital pan-European settlement platform,” which hopes to unify Europe’s fragmented post-trade infrastructure and eliminate…
While Europe's Bitcoin treasuries are trailing behind the U.S., several companies hope to catch up.
Bitpanda has launched the Bitpanda DeFi Wallet, supporting over 5,000 tokens across major blockchains, just over a week after reporting record financial performance. In a press release shared with crypto.
U.K.-listed BTC treasury firm The Smarter Web Company has made yet another multi-million-dollar purchase to boost its portfolio. On August 12, 2025, the firm announced the purchase of an additional 295 Bitcoin (BTC). The latest buy was made at an…
Binance’s integration with Mastercard turns debit and credit cards into near-instant fiat endpoints, giving European users a convenient bridge between digital assets and real-world spending. According to a blog post on August 7, Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by…