Three years ago, Nabilla’s Snapchat statements about bitcoin had inflamed the media, causing the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) to react. On July 28, 2021, the epilogue of this case was announced in a statement from the Directorate General for … Read More
The first part of this article is available here. II – The “police”… and Bitcoin The relationship between police officers, gendarmes, customs officers (“gendarmes”) and Bitcoin is not well known. Yet they exist. An analysis of press releases shows that … Read More
Faced with the headlines of some newspapers that associate the word bitcoin with “sulphurous”, “scam” or “danger”, many people, uninformed, still have the reflex to associate bitcoin with the darknet. What is the reality? Are we in the “Wild West”? … Read More
III – The decree on minibonds or the challenges of the French government (Read : first part – second part) “The decree on minibonds will be published during 2017,” Ms. Minister Axelle Lemaire, Secretary of State for Digital and Innovation, … Read More
Accusations that Bitcoin is being used to fund terrorism have just been invalidated by a January 2016 Europol report. Let’s remember: after the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris in January and November 2015, many voices were raised against Bitcoin, accusing it … Read More
Following the collapse of MtGox, a Tokyo-based currency exchange platform, in which thousands of users lost their Bitcoins, Japan was the first country to be forced to establish regulations for Bitcoin. The country’s lawyers were then faced with the legal … Read More
Less than a year ago, most banks had lost interest in bitcoin and its technology, the blockchain. Today, they are suddenly confronted with a new reality: blockchain is becoming the future of the financial sector. Not everyone is unanimous on … Read More
On 6 October, the Governors of some 30 Commonwealth central banks, meeting in Lima (Peru), expressed serious concerns about the negative effect of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism regulations on remittances and discussed the use of new money technologies, such as … Read More
The Spanish website “sobrebitcoin.com” reported on 2 September a Tokyo District Court ruling published by Kyodo in “The Japan Times” on 6 August 2015 that bitcoins do not confer a property right. The case was that a Tokyo resident (not … Read More