Estonia

After Craig Wright demanded that two sites remove the Bitcoin (BTC) whitepaper, the backlash has been massive. Several governments, including Estonia and Colombia, are now hosting the whitepaper document on their websites. Major Controversy In The Crypto Space Regarding Bitcoin’s Whitepaper Last week, Craig Wright, with his lawyers' help, demanded that Bitcoin.org and Bitcoincore.org stop hosting the Bitcoin whitepaper on their sites. Wright, one of the earliest Bitcoin pioneers, claims to be the infamous founder of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto without…

In Europe, the focus has turned to cryptocurrency companies due to the discovery of the continent’s biggest-ever dirty-money ($220 billion) scandal in Estonia. Estonia has been clamping down on the companies towards the prevention of financial crime. This is due to allegations that billions of dollars of illegal cash flowed through the local unit of Denmark’s largest lender Danske Bank A/S. One of the steps taken by the government of Estonia is the withdrawal of permits from several cryptocurrency firms. The government focuses on firms that exchange…