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The central bank of the Philippines is weighing new restrictions on money services in the country, including bitcoin exchanges.

The head of a unit at the Russian central bank focused in part on FinTech sees a potential role for blockchain use in finance and other industries.

ESMA has released a new paper on blockchains and distributed ledgers as part of a fact-finding effort into the technology.

Abu Dhabi's newest financial free zone is seeking to promote the development of blockchain startups, according to a new proposal.

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has released the results of a survey on blockchain technology.

Ernst & Young has announced it will auction $12.9m worth of bitcoin confiscated from a former Silk Road user.

More than 15 members of Congress met with representatives of the blockchain technology industry this week in Washington, DC.

The European Parliament has voted to recommend that the bloc’s government create a task force dedicated to digital currencies and blockchain.

Spanish police have seized and destroyed six bitcoin mines as part of an investigation into the illegal distribution of television content.

Japan’s national legislature approved a bill on Wednesday to regulate domestic digital currency exchanges.

A bill that would ban so-called money surrogates such as bitcoin in Russia has an uncertain future.

An economic development bill in Vermont includes language that makes blockchain data a form of admissible court evidence.

Gatecoin has claimed that it lost as much as 185,000 ethers and 250 bitcoins, an amount worth roughly $2.14m at press time.

Local authorities in Taiwan are said to have arrested a man believed to have orchestrated a bitcoin trading platform scam.

The New York Police Department winning an award from the Financial Crimes Enforcement network after tracing a series of bitcoin transactions.

A Bank of Japan official said this week that central banks should watch developments surrounding bitcoin and blockchain "closely".

As Silvergate Bank prepares to give its 16th bitcoin account its CEO talks about how he got in the business of working with digital currency startups.

The Obama administration should move quickly to embrace bitcoin and blockchain technology, a former government regulator has argued in a new op-ed.

The Australian government has officially responded to a Senate report that offered regulatory recommendations for digital currencies.

The founder of Liberty Reserve, a private digital currency system that was a predecessor of bitcoin, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The Austrian and German governments are funding a research effort focused on the use of digital currencies in organized crime.

The Australian government has proposed several ways to address issues related to the application of goods-and-services tax to digital currencies.

Delaware is looking to use blockchain technology in a bid to streamline the cost and paperwork burden of registering new companies in the state.

Tech giant Microsoft and military-focused banking and insurance firm USAA are among the newest members of the Chamber of Digital Commerce.

Epiphyte co-founder and general counsel Gabrielle Patrick weighs in on the major factors that shaped a recent EU Parliament event on blockchain.