Het jaar is bijna klaar maar de wereld lijkt elke week dichterbij de volledige bitcoinization te komen. De war on cash, plofkraken, Regelgeving, AMLD5 zijn afgelopen week in het nieuws geweest. Aaron, Jan en Boris zitten klaar om dat uitgebreid te bespreken! 

1. The War on Cash

Greeks set to face heavy fines if they don't spend 30 per cent of their income electronically: https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/greeks-set-to-face-heavy-fines-if-they-don-t-spend-30-per-cent-of-their-income-electronically-20191209-p53i14.html

Geldautomaten voortaan s’nachts dicht tegen plofkraken: https://fd.nl/beurs/1328371/geldautomaten-per-direct-dicht-tegen-plofkraken

Waarom zijn plofkraken zo populair? https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/11/29/waarom-zijn-plofkraken-zo-populair-a3982172

https://twitter.com/provoost/status/1206505560889348096

2. AMLD5

Bottlepay shuts down https://bottlepay.helpscoutdocs.com/article/40-official-announcement-on-the-shutdown-of-bottle-pay

Simon Lelieveldt thread: https://twitter.com/finhstamsterdam/status/1206344611872083969

Advies Hart Advocaten: https://bitcoin.nl/img/posts/408/Advies%20't%20Hart%20advocaten%20-%2004112019-%20implementatiewet%20witwassen%20-%20niet%20beleidsarm.pdf

3. Quadriga CX https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/14/business/lawyers-exhumation-gerald-cotten-intl-scli/index.html

5. Cryptocurrency is most useful for breaking laws and social constructs https://www.coindesk.com/cryptocurrency-is-most-useful-for-breaking-laws-and-social-constructs

6. The Decentralization of Revolutions https://rhythmofbitcoin.substack.com/p/the-decentralization-of-revolutions

7. Alex Gladstein

Dissidents and Activists Have a Lot to Gain from Bitcoin, if Only They Knew It: https://www.coindesk.com/dissidents-and-activists-have-a-lot-to-gain-from-bitcoin-if-only-they-knew-it

How Bitcoin Can Protect Speech in the Digital Age: https://quillette.com/2019/12/17/how-bitcoin-can-protect-free-speech-in-the-digital-age/

8. PlusToken Scammers Didn’t Just Steal $2+ Billion Worth of Cryptocurrency. They May Also Be Driving Down the Price of Bitcoin: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/plustoken-scam-bitcoin-price