Ledgers are the foundation of accounting. They were based on wooden, clay, and stone tablets and were used commonly, but then computers got invented in the 1980s and 1990s, and paper records were digitized, often by entering data manually.
Growing cryptographic crime has led organizations to join forces in order to counter fraudsters together. Do they have a chance to win against hackers?
The Dutch central bank has announced that institutions that provide any cryptocurrency services must prepare for new legal regulations from January 2020.Date of changesJanuary 10, 2020 - it is then that the new regulations prepared by De Nederlandsche Bank are to go into effect. Institutions conducting operations related to cryptocurrencies will have to register relevant documents in the bank in order to continue operating them.In the official statement of the central bank we can read:“In concrete terms, firms offering services for the exchange between cryptos and regular money, and crypto wallet providers, must register with De Nederlandsche Bank.”In July ministers of the Netherlands have attached a condition that cryptocurrencies have to be regulated; the reason is that not so long ago people have been concerned about increasing threat of money laundering, as cryptocurrencies are used for scams pretty frequently.Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra received a note in January from the Dutch tax office and the central bank. It suggested the implementation of appropriate licenses that should be required from companies providing cryptocurrency services. The Netherlands is a country that does not officially recognize cryptocurrencies as a means of payment, but in 2018 one court ruled that Bitcoin is a "transferable value". In 2018, a survey was conducted on the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges used by the Dutch. Coinbase is the leader here, indicated by 23% of respondents. 12% of respondents said that they do not use any exchanges.
Not so long ago, information saying that the Chinese central bank plans to launch a national cryptocurrency has appeared in November this year. The bank took the floor in the whole case.
Anti-government protests have been ongoing in Hong Kong for many weeks. As it turns out, one of their elements is to be Bitcoin, and more precisely - its wider introduction.
On Friday, a 25-year-old man was accused of operating a cryptocurrency exchange without the required license in Los Angeles. The Westwood resident pleaded guilty.
Employees of the Ukrainian atomic power plant were detained by security service agents. By using the plant's resources to mine cryptocurrencies they disclosed top-secret state data.
For several days now there has been a state of emergency due to numerous fires in the Amazon rainforest. Any financial help, including cryptocurrencies, is worth its weight in gold.
South Korean blockchain companies are withdrawing their projects from the country as a result of problems with regulations regarding cryptocurrencies and blockchains.
Coinbase is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States. Moreover, its reliability was unwavering until a certain abuse caused the exchange to go to court. The case is still ongoing, there's no end in sight, and the result is still unpredictable.
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