At any time a sovereign state like the United States may ban or
prohibit cryptocurrency use and trading and thus render all contracts immediately worthless.
Not exact matches
The Central Bank of Iran has not
prohibited the
use of
cryptocurrencies by law and only sought to warn people of the potential risks inherent in them, as the regulator has yet to announce its official stance.
After appreciating their business, the receiver of
Cryptocurrency Warning was scolded: «While reviewing your account, we noticed that your activity involves the trading or transfer of crypto currency which is
prohibited under our Acceptable
Use Policy.
The company's acceptable
use policy was updated on March 29th to include the following line which appears in the
prohibited content section: ``... we can not allow businesses involved in any aspect of the sale, transaction, exchange, storage, marketing or production of
cryptocurrencies, virtual currencies, and any digital assets related to an Initial Coin Offering, to
use...
The country
prohibited local companies from conducting initial coin offerings (ICOs) in September and required
cryptocurrency investors to
use bank accounts linked to their real names in January.
Vietnam's central bank is
prohibiting the
use of bitcoin and other
cryptocurrencies in payments.
While Nigerian banks are
prohibited from handling virtual currencies, the central bank is working on a white paper which will draft its official stance on
use of
cryptocurrencies as a payment method.
However a former official from the Finance Ministry of the country has insisted hard to
prohibit the
use of these
cryptocurrencies.
While the option of banning
cryptocurrency exchanges has not been fully ruled out, Hong explained in the video that South Korea's prime minister had recently indicated that
prohibiting the
use of
cryptocurrency exchange is just one of many possibilities, and the government currently is currently not considering the most serious scenario.
Several major banks, including JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, and Bank of America,
prohibited the
use of credit cards for purchasing digital currencies, while South Korea recently banned unknown
cryptocurrency trading accounts.
According to the central bank, the issuance and
use of Bitcoin and other
cryptocurrencies for payment purposes was
prohibited.
The statement was reinforced by Russia's Federal Tax Service declaring in November that the
use of
cryptocurrencies was in no way
prohibited by Russian legislation and from the fiscal point of view was the same as foreign currency transactions.
Ray emphasized that the statement of India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was misinterpreted by the media which reported it as a ban on
cryptocurrencies when Jaitley simply noted that the
use of
cryptocurrencies in illegal activities will be
prohibited and restricted.
In January South Korea
prohibited using anonymous accounts for
cryptocurrency exchange customers to prevent digital assets from being
used for money - laundering purposes.
With Danske bank not
prohibiting buying the virtual currencies
using credit cards, do you think at some point they will resume offering full services in the
cryptocurrency market?