środa, 5 marca 2014

Japan may tax bitcoin deals, stop banks, brokerages from handling

Some of Bitcoin enthusiast Mike Caldwell's coins and paper vouchers often called "paper wallets" are pictured at his office in Sandy, Utah By Noriyuki Hirata and Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will this week set out rules on how to handle bitcoins, the first sign that the government is taking action on regulating the virtual currency after the collapse last week of Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, once the world's dominant bitcoin exchange. Japan has struggled to define its approach to bitcoin since the collapse of Mt. Gox, which filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo on Friday, saying it had lost bitcoins and cash worth some half a billion dollars due to hacker attacks on what it said was its lax computer system security.








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