## General Updates

- nov 2018 [Edward Snowden Explains Blockchain to His Lawyer — and the Rest of Us](https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/edward-snowden-explains-blockchain-his-lawyer-and-rest-us)

- april 2018 - attached. Diverse views among different regulators, different countries, etc. One of the main questions is how the central banks will propose and develop their digital currencies.

- June 2018 [Digital Asset Transactions: When Howey Met Gary (Plastic)](https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-hinman-061418)

[Analogies, the Big Picture, and Considerations for Regulating Crypto](https://a16z.com/2018/05/04/considerations-for-regulating-cryptonetworks/)

### Practicalities

[Easy Money? What we learned about regulation when we sold our small Bitcoin fortune](https://medium.com/@avivzohar/bitcoins-regulation-why-is-it-so-difficult-6b135c259d43)
By Tamar Berenblum and Aviv Zohar.


### Taxation
* [Israel Confirms It Will Tax Bitcoin as Property](https://www.coindesk.com/israel-confirms-will-tax-bitcoin-property/)
* For tax purposes in the U.S., cryptocurrency is treated as property (a capital asset like stocks, bonds, and other investment properties). It is not treated as a currency; it is treated like real estate or gold. (https://cryptocurrencyfacts.com/2017/12/30/the-tax-rules-for-crypto-in-the-u-s-simplified/)
* [Turbotax guidance](https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/tax-payments/tax-tips-for-bitcoin-and-virtual-currency/L1ZOgU00q) 
* [Coinbase sending to IRS information on users with trading volume of over USD 20,000 from 2013 to 2015.](https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-tells-13000-users-its-sending-their-data-to-the-irs/)

### Immutability

[The Blockchain Immutability Myth](https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-immutability-myth/)

### Regulations versus Economics

[Collaborative Economy: Market Design and Basic Regulatory Principles](https://archive.intereconomics.eu/year/2017/6/collaborative-economy-market-design-and-basic-regulatory-principles/#abb1-rueck) by Georgios Petropoulos

### Exchanges

[Kraken’s Position on Regulation](https://blog.kraken.com/post/1561/krakens-position-on-regulation/) interesting insights from the conversations between regulators and cryptoexchanges



### Specific countries' regulations

* South Korea is requiring that anonymous transactions involving cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin be made traceable and that exchanges for digital currencies be subject to a 24.2 percent tax. (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/23/579880053/whos-trading-bitcoin-south-korea-wants-to-know)

* Министерство финансов РФ опубликовало законопроект о регулировании цифровых активов, в котором, среди прочего, даны определения криптовалютам, включая биткоин, токены, майнинг и ICO. (https://forklog.com/bitkoin-i-kriptovalyuty-v-rossii-opublikovan-zakonoproekt-o-regulirovanii-tsifrovyh-aktivov/)