Steve Bannon, the former aide to President Donald Trump and a firebrand of right-wing populist movements, is now touting the liberating potential of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Bannon alluded to both the financial and nonfinancial applications of blockchain, such as for managing personal data, on Tuesday at an event in Zurich sponsored by the Swiss newspaper Die Weltwoche.

During his lecture, part of a European speaking tour, he described cryptocurrency and blockchain technology as the "very heart" of a populist movement in Switzerland.

The former head of right-wing media outlet Breitbart, who helped Trump win the presidency in 2016 as the campaign's chief strategist, lauded the importance of decentralization when he said:

      "Central banks are in the business of debasing your currency. Central governments are in the business of debasing your citizenship. The central technology conglomerates are in the business of debasing your own personal sovereignty and your own personal data."

Bannon, a former member of the National Security Council, was dismissed from the White House in August 2017. During his brief tenure often criticized "financial elites," including those in Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

Now the former media mogul is calling cryptocurrency a perfect tool to escape the control of such elites. Bannon said:

     "We take control of the central banks away. That will give us the power again...Once you take control of your currency, once you take control of your data, once you take control of your citizenship, that's when you're going to have true freedom."

However, he went on to say the best way to "break" what he described as the globalized culture of economic oppression is with populist, nationalist movements like the one he popularized in the U.S.

His political rallying cries about cryptocurrency inspired resounding applause from the European audience.

https://www.coindesk.com/steve-bannon-crypto-revolution/

The only lesson i`ve learned from the recent month`s, invest into chosen ICO only on presale stage. If the market drops, most fresh new projects are looses in value, up to their presale level.

You looks like a smart man, what makes you to invest on highs, and only after that you starts internal investigations? No need to hurry, stay cool, like a robot.

For the first time, a federal judge has upheld that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are commodities and thus subject to regulation by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

U.S. Federal Judge from the Eastern District of New York, Jack Weinstein, ruled on Tuesday that cryptocurrencies should be treated as commodities, reports CNBC.

The ruling is a landmark as this is the first time that a court upheld the CFTC’s jurisdictional assertion over cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Previously, the CFTC had stated that cryptocurrencies should come under the scope of the commodities regulator.

“CFTC holds that bitcoin and other virtual currencies are a commodity covered by the commodity exchange act,” the agency said in a statement back in September 2015.

Now, the ruling adds some much-needed clarity to cryptocurrency, as well as its related futures and derivatives markets, which launched at the end of last year.

Learn more: http://bitcoinist.com/judge-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-commodities/

Уже несколько месяцев не было приличных скачков по большинству валют, а так чтобы в четыре раза монета скаконула, нужно чтобы весь рынок поднялся с колен, приток капитала и интереса на уровни конца 2017-го. Учитывая двойную просадку от вложенного в Utrust, действительно, остается только ждать.

That`s good to hear, but what does this mean for the end investor? Etereum Allience binds over 400 companies, this is not the reason why PPP prices has to grow. Concerning the market price, i`m more rely on scheduled Beta version, which may be launched anytime before the end of April 2018.

Кстати Гаткоин планируется как мастернодная монет, они как раз сейчас работают над мастернодой и будущим "мастер аир дропом" для холдеров, после запуска основной платформы. Новостей по реалным наработкам пока нет, видно из-за этого и просел курс в 2 раза.

В ближайший месяц будет ICO основного конкурента ГатКоин на европейском рынке: Momentum, те же купоны лояльности для ретейла, но ГатКоин пока еще опережает.

Neufund вводят усиленную проверку личности и валидации “Know Your Customer (KYC)”, для полного соответствия немецкому законодательству. Он прямо акцентируют на том, что для них это приоритет №1. Лично мне эта идея не по душе. Этапы KYC:

- Определить личность клиента
- Понять природу заработков клиента ( что его средства полностью чисты и законны).
- Контроль в сфере отмывания денег и мониторинг.

В общем все для налоговых служб.

Please, don`t judge about Kazakhstan by "Borat" movie. Actually, this film was shot in poor romanian villages. Kazakhstan is a large, industrially developed country, with a growing IT sector, solid trade relations with Russia and China, transport corridor between Asia and Europe. A lot of kazakh students are choosing to study in Europe and USA prestigious universities.

Concerns from Russian traders that they may be unable to access Bittrex once the exchange’s new terms of service come into effect this month appear to have been alleviated. Starting March 9th, the exchange will formally block residents of North Korea, Iran, the Crimean region, Syria, and Cuba from accessing its trading services.

Last month, Las Vegas-based cryptocurrency exchange, Bittrex, published its new terms of service, which are expected to come into effect on the 9th of March.

The new terms of service will prohibit “citizens or residents of any state, country, territory or other jurisdiction that is embargoed by the United States” from accessing Bittrex’s trading services.

It was reported that the new terms of service resulted in concern among Russian traders that the sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation since 2014 may render them unable to access Bittrex. Several traders, however, appear to have since made contact with the exchange’s support staff, and received confirmation that the new terms of service will not prohibit the citizens of nations under “economic sanctions”.

Bittrex’s new terms of service will specifically exclude residents of nations under U.S. embargo – “North Korea, Iran, the Crimean region, Syria, and Cuba.” Additionally, any individual for whom there is “an economic sanction levied by the U.S. government” will also be barred from accessing the trading platform.


The new list of restricted locations in Bittrex’s updated terms of service appears to comprise a formalization of a crackdown initiated last year.

In 2017, news.Bitcoin.com was informed by Yasser Ahmadi or Lioncomputer.ir that Bittrex had “started closing Iranian accounts without any heads up or announcements from Oct 12.” Mr. Ahmadi accused the exchange of failing to respond to support requests from Iranian citizens, asserting that Iranians had been left with no means through which to repatriate the funds held in their accounts.

Mr. Ahmadi lamented the increasing projection of U.S. imperial objectives manifesting as a consequence greater regulation of the cryptocurrency industry. “They’re using the fluidity of bitcoin to control the needs of people around the world and reach their own political interests,” Mr. Ahmadi stated. “That is not what bitcoin and blockchain is about, it’s against the spirit of this system.”

https://news.bitcoin.com/bittrex-blocks-residents-north-korea-iran-crimea-syria-and-cuba/

A study by Yandex, a multinational corporation for Internet services, showed that Kazakhstanis have been searching for a variety cryptocurrency-related terms in frequency and amount several times higher this year as compared to 2017, local news outlet zakon.kz reported March 2.

The study shows that the increase in interest began in June of last year and rose in September, with Kazakhstanis asking Yandex more questions like “what is Bitcoin/Blockchain/ICO/mining?” The study notes that “what is Bitcoin” was asked the most in December 2017, when Bitcoin’s price hit $20,000.

Other search queries popular in Kazakhstan include, “can students work with Bitcoin?” “Bitcoin printing,” “what is Blockchain in simple words for dummies?” and “which mining services really pay?”

Yandex users in Kazakhstan used the word “cryptocurrency” in searches 15 times more than in 2018 than in 2017, and searched for “graphics cards for mining” 10 times more than the year before.

Kazakh users also searched for just “Bitcoin” 7 times more than in the beginning of last year, and are 4 times more likely to search “ICO” this year along with various modifiers.

In November of last year, Kazakhstan’s Astana International Finance Center announced that they were interested in releasing a fiat-based cryptocurrency, the CryptoTenge, after signing a deal with a Maltese financial broker. Also in November, it was reported that Kazakhstan is considering licensing a cryptocurrency and Blockchain lobby group to promote the new technology.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/yandex-study-shows-rising-interest-in-crypto-by-kazakhstanis

Last week, Malaysia’s new Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) policy guidelines specifically addressing cryptocurrencies came into effect. The new regulations compel Malaysian virtual currency exchanges to mandate KYC adherence, including the collection of ID documentation.


Bank Negara Malaysia’s stated policy objective is to “ensure that effective measures are in place against money laundering and terrorism financing risks associated with the use of digital currencies,” in addition to “increas[ing] the transparency of digital currency activities in Malaysia.”

The new policy guidelines assert that “Promoting greater transparency in the use of digital currencies serves to protect the integrity of the financial system and strengthen incentives to prevent their abuse for illegal activities”

The legislation came into effect on February 27th, with Bank Negara Malaysia stating that it “[took] into account feedback received during the public consultation period on the exposure draft released on 14 December 2017.” The bank added that the feedback it received “mainly focused on the obligations imposed on digital currency exchangers, including businesses providing intermediary services involving cryptocurrencies.”

The policy document states that Malaysian cryptocurrency exchanges “are required to conduct customer due diligence on all customers and the persons conducting the transaction when the reporting institution establishes business relationship with customer and when the reporting institutions have any suspicion of money laundering or terrorism financing.”

The regulations mandate that Malaysian virtual currency exchanges collect the full name, address, and date of birth of all customers, in addition to ID documentation. The policy document also states that “any person offering services to exchange digital currencies either from or to fiat money, or from or to another digital currency is subject to obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001″.

Bank Negara Malaysia reaffirmed that virtual currencies are not recognized as legal tender in Malaysia. As such, the bank stated that “digital currency businesses are not covered by prudential and market conduct standards […] applicable to financial institutions regulated by” Bank Negara Malaysia.

https://news.bitcoin.com/new-malaysian-cryptocurrency-regulation-come-into-effect/

Хорошие новости для всех баунти участников. Начались выплаты наград. Проверяйте почту, туда должно прийти уведомление о начислении его награды.

Основная продажа токенов начнется через 40 дней, эта дата может быть изменена. Для отслеживания новостей  о начале PreICO присоединяйтесь к каналу телеграмм и регистрируйтесь на сайте.

https://t.me/opencollectorsnetwork

https://opencollectors.network/register

Israel's government confirmed Monday that it would treat bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a kind of property for tax purposes.

The notice confirms past indications that the Tax Authority will regard cryptocurrencies as "a property, not a currency", making it therefore taxable as such. The Authority's position was first detailed in a draft circular issued in January of this year.

The circular explains that profits from cryptocurrencies will be subject to capital gains tax at rates between twenty percent and twenty-five percent, while individuals mining or trading cryptocurrencies in connection with businesses must pay a seventeen percent value-added tax (VAT) in addition to capital gains tax.

That latter aspect - excluding broad swaths of investors from potential VAT charges - is in line with a trend seen in recent years since the issue gained prominence. The Israeli government started exploring the taxation of cryptocurrencies as early as 2013.

And while today's announcement was largely expected (given the previous draft release from the Tax Authority), officials there are still working on initiatives that could continue to impact the industry at-large.

The Authority's Monday announcement follows another draft circular published in late January, which outlined potential ways in which the government could tax ICOs. Possible steps include setting a minimum token sale revenue threshold at which a tax would be triggered.

https://www.coindesk.com/israel-confirms-will-tax-bitcoin-property/

A South Korean cryptocurrency regulator in charge of “devising measures against cryptocurrency speculation” was found dead in his home from an apparent heart attack on Monday, semiofficial government news agency Yonhap News reports. A government spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal they weren’t “sure about the cause of death.”

South Korean police are investigating the death of Jung Ki-joon, 52, who led economic policy at the Office for Government Policy Coordination. His job involved developing rules for regulating cryptocurrency in a largely unregulated, fast-growing market the South Korean government seeks to manage.

Ki-joon was in charge of organizing weekly meetings, which began in November of last year, on regulating cryptocurrency transactions. Hong Nam-ki, the minister of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, headed up the meetings.

Yonhap News reports his colleagues said he had been “under heavy stress” since taking the job late last year.


South Korea is a hot spot for trading Bitcoin. According to the government, the country’s 30 cryptocurrency exchanges saw 87.5 times more income in 2017 than the previous year, Yonhap News reports. The prices of Bitcoin have traded higher in South Korea than in other markets, at times by more than 50 percent.

The South Korean won, its currency, is the fourth most popular currency for exchanging Bitcoin after the U.S. dollar, Japanese yen and the euro. Roughly 5 percent of cryptocurrency transactions in 2017 were exchanged for won.

Ki-joon said in a briefing last month that cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, weren’t a legal currency and the government “would strongly respond to excessive cryptocurrency speculation and illegal activity,” according to WSJ.


South Korea continues to grapple with how to regulate the rapidly growing cryptocurrency market. The country’s finance minister, Kim Dong-yeon, said in late January that “there is no intention to ban or suppress cryptocurrency.”

When the country legalized cryptocurrency exchanges, they also issued a ban on anonymous exchanges, undermining the reason people use the currency to protect their privacy.

South Korea is also considering a Bitcoin licensing scheme for exchanges, with Business Korea quoting a government official saying: “We are positively considering the adoption of an exchange approval system as the additional regulation on cryptocurrencies.”

The country appears to be, at the very least, on the path to a more robust regulation system.

http://bitcoinist.com/south-korea-investigating-cryptocurrency-regulators-sudden-death/

Не известна причина почему решили удалить баунти раздел и Ann английскую ветку, ведь у сообщества периодически возникают вопросы по теме проекта. Будем надеятся англоязычная тема оживет, вместе с развитием самого Copytrack.

Хорошее фото, команда открыта и очень многонациональна. Более 45 000 вкладчиков помогли реализовать задуманное о лучшей реализации авторского права онлайн.

Neufund оффициально заявил о будущей поддержке аппаратного кошелька Ledger на своей платформе, как самый безопасный способ сохранить свои сбережения в крипте. Поддержку остальных кошельков типа Trezor обещают делать, но постепенно.

As cryptocurrency regulations start to pile up in India, a new trend is emerging for Indians to acquire cryptocurrencies from abroad, such as from relatives or friends with overseas accounts.


The Indian government has recently intensified its efforts to strengthen the country’s regulations on cryptocurrencies, promising that a regulatory framework for them will be announced soon. Earlier this month, the Indian tax authority issued notices to 100,000 crypto traders asking them to pay taxes.

The Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee (BACC), an industry group whose members include 7 cryptocurrency exchanges, is considering several initiatives, such as creating a database of crypto users and transactions, to comply with the government’s mandates. The Times of India elaborated:

"With Indian exchanges like Unocoin, Zebpay, Coinsecure, keen on increasing regulation and scrutiny into transactions, bitcoin aficionados say buying from US exchanges is a more popular alternative for purchases."

As regulations tighten in India, bitcoin “enthusiasts are now tapping into their own NRI [non-resident Indian] network of friends and family members,” the news outlet added.

L R Dinesh is a bitcoiner who buys expensive items using bitcoin on overseas online sites. He told the publication, “For the online tech community, there are some who receive bitcoins as payment for gadget and video game reviews. But for regular purchases, one has to get a relative or friend with an overseas account to send over bitcoins.”

https://news.bitcoin.com/indians-buy-bitcoin-overseas-regulations-tighten/

Bitcoin cash (BCH) is now available for trading in dozens of new physical locations across the US. The American ATM network Athena Bitcoin has added support for buying and selling the cryptocurrency for fiat cash on all its machines.

Midwest US-based cryptocurrency ATM network Athena Bitcoin has recently announced that bitcoin cash (BCH) has been made available on all of its machines. This is only the third cryptocurrency now supported by the ATM network following bitcoin (BTC) and litecoin (LTC).

Athena machines offer both the buying and selling of cryptocurrency, which means American BCH holders have gained not only a new convenient method to increase their stockpile of the cryptocurrency but also the ability to easily exchange it for fiat in case they need to pay in shops that don’t accept credit or crypto.

The company explains to clients that bitcoin cash is a fully independent currency that features a different price, development team, and community compared with BTC, and that they will therefore need to use a BCH supporting wallet for buying the cryptocurency. The Athena Bitcoin wallet does not support BCH yet, but the company promises that it will be soon after an upcoming update.

https://news.bitcoin.com/american-atm-network-athena-bitcoin-adds-bitcoin-cash-support/

Сейчас хорошо идем по дорожной карте, уже выпустили демо версию приложения, как и заявлено в Январе. В Июне ожидается выход GatCoin биржи, полный запуск платформы в Декабре 2018.

Демо: https://www.gatcoin.io/gatcoin-mobile-demo/