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Banks are also getting tougher with bitcoin investors. In America three big banks including JPMorgan Chase are no longer permitting the use of credit cards for the purchase of cryptocurrencies. Lloyds Bank has taken a similar step in Britain. The restrictions are understandable given the exposure of any such borrowers to massive losses. Moreover, there is a greater awareness of another risk in dabbling in cryptocurrencies, that of outright theft as despite the vaunted cryptographic features hackers exploit security weaknesses.
The most recent episode was a raid on Coincheck, a cryptocurrency exchange in Japan. The auspices for bitcoin now look unfavourable as regulators sound the alarm and plot countermoves. Regulatory measures will be discussed when G20 finance ministers meet in Buenos Aires in March.
Yet once a bubble has burst it rarely reflates. Yet as the regulatory environment becomes more hostile, bitcoin investors will be hard-pressed to retain their faith in the cryptocurrency.
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Bitcoinica was hacked twice in , which led to allegations that the venue neglected the safety of customers' money and cheated them out of withdrawal requests. Securities and Exchange Commission had reportedly started an investigation on the case.
As a result, Bitfloor suspended operations. As a result, Instawallet suspended operations. On 11 August , the Bitcoin Foundation announced that a bug in a pseudorandom number generator within the Android operating system had been exploited to steal from wallets generated by Android apps; fixes were provided 13 August In October , Inputs. The service was run by the operator TradeFortress. Coinchat, the associated bitcoin chat room, was taken over by a new admin.
The CEO was eventually arrested and charged with embezzlement. On 3 March , Flexcoin announced it was closing its doors because of a hack attack that took place the day before.
In December , hackers stole 4, bitcoins from NiceHash a platform that allowed users to sell hashing power. On 19 December , Yapian, a company that owns the Youbit cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea, filed for bankruptcy following a hack, the second in eight months. In , the Cryptocurrency Legal Advocacy Group CLAG stressed the importance for taxpayers to determine whether taxes are due on a bitcoin-related transaction based on whether one has experienced a " realization event": when a taxpayer has provided a service in exchange for bitcoins, a realization event has probably occurred and any gain or loss would likely be calculated using fair market values for the service provided.
In August , the German Finance Ministry characterized bitcoin as a unit of account , [77] [] usable in multilateral clearing circles and subject to capital gains tax if held less than one year. On 5 December , the People's Bank of China announced in a press release regarding bitcoin regulation that whilst individuals in China are permitted to freely trade and exchange bitcoins as a commodity, it is prohibited for Chinese financial banks to operate using bitcoins or for bitcoins to be used as legal tender currency, and that entities dealing with bitcoins must track and report suspicious activity to prevent money laundering.
Bitcoin's blockchain can be loaded with arbitrary data. In researchers from RWTH Aachen University and Goethe University identified 1, files added to the blockchain, 59 of which included links to unlawful images of child exploitation, politically sensitive content, or privacy violations. Interpol also sent out an alert in saying that "the design of the blockchain means there is the possibility of malware being injected and permanently hosted with no methods currently available to wipe this data".
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