Topic: Belgium’s finance minister has no objection to bitcoin (Read 482 times)
Hope other European leaders will follow
inb4 he bans Bitcoin in less than 6 months and claims that he didn't say that Bitcoin was ok
True, fear of money laundering will win
inb4 he bans Bitcoin in less than 6 months and claims that he didn't say that Bitcoin was ok
now hope in near future European Union clearing this bitcoin for using and its going in good way
As a young teenage, my dad used to work in a coal mine in Belgium before becoming a tailor then making gold plated electrical connectors for the SR-71 and Saturn V.
That's cool. At least there are some countries that don't hate btc.
http://thebitcoinnews.co.uk/2013/09/11/belgiums-finance-minister-has-no-objection-to-bitcoin/
Quote
Belgium’s finance minister has no problem with bitcoin, he said last week, although he pointed out that there are few people there using it.
Minister of finance Koen Geens responded to a parliamentary question about bitcoin, commenting that he wouldn’t see the Belgian National bank having any objection to bitcoin, and stating that for the moment its use is limited to a handful of traders.
The nation’s anti-money laundering organization – the Cellule de Traitement des Informations Financières – hasn’t received any guidance on the cryptocurrency.
Geens reportedly added that although privacy and anonymity were a big part of bitcoin, there was no indication that the cryptocurrency is used on
Minister of finance Koen Geens responded to a parliamentary question about bitcoin, commenting that he wouldn’t see the Belgian National bank having any objection to bitcoin, and stating that for the moment its use is limited to a handful of traders.
The nation’s anti-money laundering organization – the Cellule de Traitement des Informations Financières – hasn’t received any guidance on the cryptocurrency.
Geens reportedly added that although privacy and anonymity were a big part of bitcoin, there was no indication that the cryptocurrency is used on
Jump to: