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The Risks of Segregated Witness: Problems under Evidence Laws

The Risks of Segregated Witness: Problems under Evidence LawsBy Jimmy Nguyen Chief IP, Communications & Legal Officer – nChain Group The bitcoin community still debates whether Segregated Witness will help the network’s scalability or will instead create more problems.  As I have previously written, SegWit raises legal questions because it would enable full digital signature (witness) data to be dropped from the transaction […]

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September 12, 2017 0

IRS May not Get as Much Customer Data From Coinbase as Requested

DataThe IRS intends to lessen the amount of customer data it originally wanted to siphon from Coinbase. Ongoing negotiations between Coinbase and the IRS have yielded concessions on part of the IRS legal team. A trial attorney for the Department of Justice, Amy Matchison, recently said the IRS would narrow their specific data request from Coinbase.  Also

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July 1, 2017 0