Japanese regulator to ease taxation norms to rejuvenate crypto-avenues

Dec 12, 2018 06:00 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views

The Japanese government, back in October,insinuated its intentionsto ease the taxation procedures in crypto investments to abstain from unviable and irrational taxation frameworks from destructively upsetting the domestic...

US SEC seems constructive on ICOs yet again

Dec 11, 2018 05:41 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views Commentary

The SECs regulation facilitates capital formation, which assists entrepreneurs launch businesses and companies prosperity. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cites that all Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) should be...

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How low will Bitcoin now go? The history of price bubbles provides some clues

Dec 10, 2018 23:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Digital Currency

Nearly 170 years before the invention of Bitcoin, the journalist Charles Mackay noted the way whole communities could fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit. Millions of people, he wrote, become...

The John Birch Society is still influencing American politics, 60 years after its founding

Dec 10, 2018 02:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The retired candy entrepreneur Robert Welch founded the John Birch Society 60 years ago to push back against what he perceived as a growing American welfare state modeled on communism and the federal governments push to...

The web really isn't worldwide – every country has different access

Dec 10, 2018 02:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

What the internet looks like to users in the U.S. can be quite different from the online experience of people in other countries. Some of those variations are due to government censorship of online services, which is a...

Why a 14th-century mystic appeals to today's 'spiritual but not religious' Americans

Dec 08, 2018 18:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views

The percentage of Americans who do not identify with any religious tradition continues to rise annually. Not all of them, however, are atheists or agnostics. Many of these people believe in a higher power, if not organized...

Syria may be using chemical weapons against its citizens again – here's how international law has changed to help countries intervene

Dec 08, 2018 18:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views

New reports have emerged from the Syrian civil war that banned chemical weapons are being used in Aleppo, a city on the edge of the last remaining rebel stronghold, Idlib province. Since 2011, the war has been the...