Law

Intellectual ownership rights registration through the blockchain - is it of any actual legal force?

The creators of the WannaCry ransomware virus have withdrawn all the money, $140,000 in Bitcoin.

The members of the governmental interdepartmental working group assessing the risks of cryptocurrency turnover in Russia have begun to discuss the possibility of introducing amendments to the civil law that will allow ICOs to be held in the Russian Federation.

The AML4 (Directive 2015/859 UE) was introduced in Italy with its publication in the Italian Official Journal of the Legislative Decree 25th  May 2017, n. 90 (G.U. n. 140 of 19th June 2017) with the total reform of the legislative decree 231/2007.

The Russian authorities are still exploring ways to regulate cryptocurrency transactions before making a draft of the new law for digital currency circulation. The latest proposal from the Russian Ministry of Finance states that digital currencies could be recognized as a commodity with the appropriate taxes and face obligatory customer identification.

The Financial Committee of the Ukrainian government has published a draft law that suggests changing the regulation of money transfers, including cryptocurrencies.

A recent report from Google states that the possibility of getting infected with Android ransomware is close to zero.

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