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Virtual Currency (aka Digital Currency or Digital Money) is a type of currency or medium of exchange that is not issued by any government nor guaranteed by a government currency. Despite lacking legal tender status, Virtual Currency is still traded and exchanged in some environments, typically online environments or communities. Bitcoin is the most well-known form of Virtual Currency. less -

Blockchain Analysis and Related Expert Testimony Admissible In Criminal Trial

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/19/2024

It is challenging for law enforcement to track down and trace illicit activities conducted through digital currencies. The process can be very time- and resource-intensive. Further, securing charges and arrests, and...more

What to Know About the DOJ’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team

The Volkov Law Group on 11/12/2021

In early October, U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the creation of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (“NCET”). The NCET will handle the Department’s investigations...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 9/19/2018

China is answering the White House’s latest tariff announcement with another $60 billion in levies on US goods of its own....more

US creates task force to help with crypto investigations

Hogan Lovells on 7/30/2018

What has happened? US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order, establishing a task force that will develop guidance for the investigation and prosecution of fraud, including "digital currency fraud"....more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2018 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/19/2018

Think Tank Says Nuclear Missiles Can be Inadvertently Launched Through Cyber-Attacks - Just before the false alarm in Hawaii last weekend when residents were erroneously warned of an impending missile attack, think tank...more

IRS Files Petition to Enforce Summons Issued to Virtual Currency Company

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/27/2017

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) obtained authorization from a California federal court last November to serve a John Doe summons on the virtual currency firm Coinbase in order to obtain customer information to determine...more

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