The advent of Bitcoin suggested a disintermediated economy in which Internet users can
take part directly. The conceptual disruption brought about by this Internet of Money (IoM) …

This research project focuses on the impacts exerted by the tech schemes behind virtual
currencies on the EU framework to prevent the misuse of the financial system and it aims to …

This research paper focuses on the interconnections between traditional and cutting edge
technological features of virtual currencies and the EU legal framework to prevent the …

Proponents of bitcoin have long asserted transnational decentralised structures cannot be
regulated by centralised state-based actors. The recent legislative activities of dominant …

This article is an attempt to reconcile the requirements of the EU General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) and anti-money laundering and combat terrorist financing (AML/CFT) …

Fuelled by the success (and hype) around cryptocurrencies, distributed ledger technologies
(DLT), particularly blockchains, have gained a lot of attention from a wide spectrum of …

Distributed ledger technology especially in the form of publicly coordinated validation
networks such as Ethereum and Bitcoin with their own monetary circles provide for a …

Within the cryptocurrency space, two separate ecosystems are evolving. This will likely
require strategies from financial authorities looking to counter illicit finance threats. One …

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) such as Blockchain appear to have disruptive
economic potential to traditional finance-sector and non-financial markets as the success of …

When Bitcoin was in the news earlier this year, little attention was paid to the blockchain
technology that underpins it. This is unfortunate as blockchain's emergence has important …