Not exact matches
Late last year, the FBI's Phoenix office warned of an
increase in people reporting email threats, demanding that they pay a sum in
virtual currency or prepaid cards — or else.
«Greater clarity can now emerge in the debate about how to regulate
virtual currencies, leading to
increased credibility and consumer confidence; in turn,
virtual currencies will have a much greater critical mass in the financial services system.»
A bill in the Senate of the Philippines would
increase the penalty for crimes that involve
virtual currency.
The IBM and Kaspersky reports on the
increase in cryptocurrency mining malware detections come after a string of incidents during the past few months that involved
virtual currency miners.
For a state that has been a thriving location for
virtual currency mining, the rate
increase will likely have a chilling effect on innovation.
I agree that the regulation will have a positive overall effect on
virtual currency markets, giving
currencies like Bitcoin an
increased air of legitimacy and likely boosting its market.
The regulatory chiefs questioned how their respective agencies would fund
increased scrutiny of the rapidly growing
virtual currency market, with Clayton saying he needed more people to staff the trading and markets division.
While most of the foregoing bills are at an early stage, and do not comprehensively regulate
virtual currency or blockchain technology, it is encouraging that legislators on both sides of the aisle are
increasing their focus on issues relating to this technology.
By getting information about how exchanges operate out into the open, the Office of the Attorney General «seeks to
increase transparency and accountability in the
virtual currency marketplace — and better inform the actions of enforcement agencies, investors, and consumers in this space.»
This
increases the possibility of
virtual currencies being used for suspicious activities.
The
increasing interest around Blockchain technologies in 2017 led the CTFC to release a Primer on
Virtual Currencies which acknowledged that Blockchain technologies can be used by governments, financial institutions and cross-industries to optimize everyday operations via a Blockchain system.
The article elaborates that the rise of social networking and distrust of the current financial system
increase the acceptance of
virtual currencies.
Ultimately the goal of any regulatory regime should be to
increase efficiency using technology, and this is what innovators are hoping regulators keep in mind when addressing
virtual currency regulation.
While bitcoin's price has been on a rapid
increase since the start of the new year, the public at large is still learning about
virtual currency and blockhain technologoy.
Since FinCEN issued this guidance, dozens of
virtual currency exchangers and administrators have registered with FinCEN, and FinCEN is receiving an
increasing number of suspicious activity reports (SARs) from these entities.
Prices for many of the top
virtual currencies have dipped, which — as they say, is a great time to buy «buy in a dip» and get more coins for your money, ready for the price to
increase in August.
Bitcoin binary options is the latest medium through which average users, who have welcomed the
virtual currency in their lives, can
increase their earnings.
To put it simply, an asset or assets, in the case of binary options trading, are the
virtual items which you have purchased, may it be in the form of stocks, or through calls and acquiring them later on as you succeed in making profits and
increase the amount of stocks or binary options trading items that you have — regardless of the dynamic, might it be an item, food, fuel, or foreign
currency «betting».
The transaction volume of
virtual currencies in Japan has rapidly
increased since the amendment to the Payment Services Act [1] was enacted in May 2016.
To put it simply, an asset or assets, in the case of binary options trading, are the
virtual items which you have purchased, may it be in the form of stocks, or through calls and acquiring them later on as you succeed in making profits and
increase the amount of stocks or binary options trading items that you have — regardless of the dynamic, might it be an item, food, fuel, or foreign
currency «betting».
Recurrent consumer spending (including add - on content, microtransactions and online play)
increased to 40.3 % of net revenue from digital online channels for the three months ended December 31, 2015 as compared to 39.5 % of net revenue from digital online channels for the three months ended December 31, 2014, due primarily to the recognition of previously - deferred revenue related to
virtual currency for Grand Theft Auto Online and NBA 2K.
Recurrent consumer spending (including add - on content, microtransactions and online play)
increased to 55.1 % of net revenue from digital online channels for the nine months ended December 31, 2015, as compared to 44.8 % of net revenue from digital online channels for the nine months ended December 31, 2014, due primarily to the recognition of previously - deferred revenue related to
virtual currency for Grand Theft Auto Online and NBA 2K.
After the Coincheck incident, consultation of those who can not move the
virtual currency from the Coincheck has
increased sharply.
SegWit is traditionally considered «complicated» compared to merely
increasing the Bitcoin block size, despite the latter requiring a hard fork of the
virtual currency.
That's what the social network did last year when they decided that everyone on their service had to use their
virtual currency, which also happened to
increase Facebook's cut.
Falcon Private Bank will soon allow customers to buy and hold Bitcoin, paving the way forward for the
increased adoption of
virtual currency — but potentially removing anonymity.
South Korea's financial regulator revealed earlier this week it was jointly carrying out inspections on six local banks that offer
virtual currency accounts to institutions amid concerns their
increased use could lead to a surge in crime.
According to Wiseapp's data from October 30 to January 14, «
Virtual currency app users
increased 14 times in the last 11 weeks,» the company wrote.
Speaking specifically about Bitcoin regulations in the United States, Boring said that laws on anti-money laundering (AML), know - your - customer (KYC) and the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) are hampering the growth of
virtual currency startups by
increasing compliance costs.
Their decision to support litecoin marks
increasing interest in
virtual currencies.
With
increased difficulty associated with legal campaign funding, the state sponsored actors of North Korea are taking the illegal route to steal
virtual currencies.
Increase in demand and confidence of investors raised the prices of the
virtual currency as well.
«As security threats such as
virtual currency speculation and hacking on handling sites are
increasing, the actual situation of personal information protection of major
virtual currency exchanges has been found to be very weak,» Korea Communications Commission chairman Lee Hyo - Sung said.
Need less to say bitcoin also
increased interest of cybercriminals to the
virtual currency.
The whole crypto community and some media companies were talking about the exponential
increase in the
virtual currency's fees that was seen over the course of 2017.
Long - term future pricing options could be seen as a vote of confidence for the
virtual currency, potentially paving the way for less market volatility and further
increased investment over time.
Long - term future pricing has been heralded by some investors as a considerable vote of confidence for
virtual currencies, potentially paving the way for less market volatility and further
increased investment over time.
This variety of
virtual currencies, and their drastic price
increases in 2017, has opened up the market to anyone who can afford to invest, novice or not.
As noted by ZDNet, «The Blue House, Korea's equivalent to the US White House, said the country will seek to
increase transparency in cryptocurrency trading by stamping out illegal activities» — meaning it «will prioritize transparency in trading of
virtual currency within the boundaries of the current law, and block illegal and unfair activities.»
Virtual reality is grabbing as much attention as digital
currencies are receiving, although digital coins are drawing more interest these days, especially with predicted value
increases and crypto investment craze.
Since the beginning of this year, the crypto market has experienced
increased pressure from regulators around the globe with crackdowns focused on cryptocurrency trading and initial coin offerings and this has played a major role on the performance of the
virtual currencies.
«that
virtual currencies will be used to make reservations and payments for domestic and international travelers, which will be of great help in
increasing convenience.»
«While the security threats such as
virtual currency speculation and hacking of handling sites are
increasing, the actual situation of personal information protection of major
virtual currency exchanges is very weak,» warned the chairman of the Korea Communications Commission in announcing the fines.
The brief slide could be due to the so - called scaling issues confronted by the
virtual currency as its developers want to
increase transaction sizes in the Blockchain network.
While media headlines tout the number of millionaires Bitcoin has created, the rise of the
virtual currency also has another important effect:
increasing the number of cryptocurrency jobs.
Trading of
virtual currencies has
increased globally and have given extraordinary returns.
The
increasing demand for the
virtual currencies has complicated the work of the exchanges resulting in the limitations in the mandate of the firms.
Enterprising
virtual currency businesses are already developing ways to help stabilize prices and
increase certainty in
virtual currency markets.
In the last 24 hours, the
virtual currency has
increased 5.53 percent at press time.
This year, the
virtual currency market has been
increasing exponentially and calling the attention of big investors.