Regulations in the Realm of Digital Assets
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Legal status of #bitcoin by country as on 4-Mar-2019 (source)“What we don’t understand, we fear. What we fear, we judge as evil. What we judge as evil, we attempt to control. And what we cannot control…we attack” — UnknownCryptocurrencies offer the promise of a financial system free from centralized authority and third-party control. The idea of cryptographically secure transactions that put the control of your assets in your hands is not a recent one, but it was fairly unexplored before the advent of bitcoin in 2009 (and even less popularly before e-cash in 1983). However, the meteoric rise of #crypto prices towards the end of 2017, followed by a sharp fall next year, has renewed the global focus on these digital assets. Governments and financial authorities that were earlier dismissive of (...)