Europe's Bitcoin-Busting Mistake
The E.U.'s new virtual currency regulations will endanger privacy and trigger an exodus of tech talent from Europe, hobbling its role in the future of finance.
The E.U.'s new virtual currency regulations will endanger privacy and trigger an exodus of tech talent from Europe, hobbling its role in the future of finance.
The FTX meltdown, "Operation Chokepoint 2.0," and a "crypto winter" have only strengthened the resolve of the enthusiasts Reason spoke with at the annual National Bitcoin Conference in Miami.
The SEC is suing Coinbase, alleging that it's an unregistered securities broker, after targeting Binance the day before.
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"If you don't trust central authority, then you should see this immediately as something that is very problematic," says the Florida governor.
The SEC seems to believe that all crypto exchanges are unregistered security dealers and inherently breaking the law.
The bipartisan RESTRICT Act is an infringement on a host of civil and economic rights that will strangle free speech and cryptocurrencies.
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The economic historian and Magatte Wade, Alex Gladstein, Mohamad Machine-Chian, Tony Woodlief, and Tom Palmer are challenging authoritarians everywhere.
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Coinbase says the agency's assault will "only drive innovation, jobs, and the entire industry overseas."
SEC agents cannot explain to a federal judge what its policies and attitudes regarding virtual currencies are—or how they are going to impact the industry.
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"It's not clear that FTX would have existed, at least at its scale, if we had domestic guidelines for American companies," the former senator tells Reason.
Meet the SEC commissioner who hates regulation and the bitcoin booster who says the crypto industry needs to police itself better.
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Thousands of local, state, and federal law-enforcers have access to sensitive financial data.
Freeman, an early adopter of the virtual currency, gets slammed by a state that can't tolerate any use of money without its permission and knowledge.
After two terms in the Senate as a champion for free markets and limited government, Pennsylvania's Republican senator is heading into retirement.
Senator Warren wants to extend the financial surveillance state cooked up by drug warriors and anti-terrorism fearmongers to cryptocurrencies.
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Most dangerously of all, they're starting to make their own central bank digital currencies.
Ironically, the FTX meltdown is the best illustration yet of why the world needs bitcoin.
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
The mainstream coverage of SBF and FTX is more than a little blasé.
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The co-founder of the crypto exchange Kraken will join Reason's livestream Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern to discuss the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried and his company, FTX.
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This is bad news for any virtual currency that was pre-mined, including ethereum.
The Network State author and serial entrepreneur on the future of freedom, online and offline.
The Network State author and serial entrepreneur on the future of freedom, online and offline.
Any new rules for the crypto market should protect entrepreneurs and investors from overzealous intervention, not subject them to it.
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For the first time ever, the Treasury Department has sanctioned not a person or a group but a digital tool and all who would use it.
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Monetary Metals CEO Keith Weiner defends the future of gold against bitcoin podcaster Pierre Rochard.
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