Topic: Belgium’s finance minister has no objection to bitcoin (Read 487 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/
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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
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