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Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs

“Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) will not allow the installation of Bitcoin ATMs in the country because it believes Bitcoins are not a currency and should therefore not be accepted by individuals or banks as payment, said FSC chairman Tseng Ming-chung. U.S.-based company Robocoin planned to bring its Bitcoin ATMs to Taiwan and Hong Kong as part of its global expansion plans. Government attitudes toward Bitcoin differ widely throughout Asia, but the FSC’s decision is yet another sign that the cryptocurrency’s increasing mainstream acceptance also means it will come under scrutiny by more financial regulators.” Continue reading →

Americans are free — Really? — Do you own your home or are you renting it from the government?

It is a sad commentary on our existence as a free and prosperous country that we have our former enemy have a sincere wonderment of how our apathetic attitude toward acceptance of our own demise we are willing to accept. We have allowed the political elite to erode our liberties and freedoms that in a […]

Radiation Alert Pay attention America

ALL AMERICANS TAKE HEED TO THIS ‘WARNING’ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2013/12/whens-it-time-to-leave-west-coast-andor-the-northern-hemisphere-due-to-fukushima-radiation-2517376.html FUKUSHIMA RADIATION ALERT: When It’s Time To Leave West Coast And/Or The Northern Hemisphere Tuesday, December 31, 2013 13:46 According to several recently released stories, within the next few days a toxic cloud of radiation could be arriving upon the West Coast of America, necessitating that […]

ED officials raided two bitcoin trading firm in Ahmedabad

“Days after the RBI issued a cautionary note regarding the use of popular virtual currency Bitcoin, Enforcement Directorate officials here raided two companies running Bitcoin transactions in India. ED officials told ET that on Thursday raids were conducted on the offices of rBitco.in and buysellbitco.in. This is India’s first bitcoin raid and second globally after FBI conducted the raid in October, they said. As per the sources, the owners of the both the bitcoin trading firm would be booked under FEMA Act initially. However, after detail investigation of the data collected, if any havala transaction or criminal nature transaction is detected then they would be booked under the appropriate Act.” Continue reading →

Gov. Fallin Banishes E-cigs, Promotes Dangerous Drugs Instead

How does banishing a product like electronic cigarettes that have no indication of significant adverse effects and instead promoting a drug like Chantix protect the public’s health? Continue reading →

FinCEN: Bitcoin Miners Need Not Register as Money Transmitters

“According to the letter, miners are still free to purchase goods or trade with exchanges with the bitcoins they produce whether operating as individuals or businesses. The news should come as a relief for smaller-scale mining operations. Jerry Brito, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, indicated that FinCEN wrotein a private letter last July that all miners would have to register as MSBs, and uncertainty had remained since then. This could have put many individuals out of the mining business with its range of compliance regulations, such as having an auditor on staff. The exact wording of the letter still leaves some room for interpretation, though.” Continue reading →

Bitcoin exchanges shut shop in India

“BuySellBitCo.in CEO Mahin Gupta refused to comment on what would happen to the investment that went into BuySellBitCo.in. However, the exchange’s website pointed out that it was suspending operations until a clearer operating framework could be found. ‘Post the RBI circular, we are suspending buy and sell operations. This is being done to protect the interests of our customers and in no way is a reflection of Bitcoin’s true potential or price,’ the trading platform said. Another trading platform, INBRTC, claimed that the ‘only option now was to suspend services until further arrangements could be made.'” Continue reading →

Nobel Winner: “No Reason To Fear Deflation”

“‘Historically, there is no reason to fear deflation,’ Nobel Laureate Thomas Sargent explains to Germany’s Wiwo.de, ‘we all benefit from lower prices.’ That central banks pursue an inflation rate of around 2%, Sargent blasts, is because they consider it their job to ‘make bad debt good debt,’ adding that inflation is ‘a major redistribution machine – reducing the real debt burden for the benefit of creditors and devaluing the assets of the creditors.’ A return to a gold standard,he concludes, to prevent governments and central banks from limitless money-printing ‘would not be foolish.'” Continue reading →