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Bitcoin shopping aggregator Spendabit announced this week the launch of Region Support for the European Union, giving users the ability to search for more than one hundred merchants with more to come. This support follows Spendabit’s region-specific search capabilities for...

A European Union committee has agreed that for the moment the EU should rein in plans to regulate blockchain, reported Reuters. “We don’t want pre-emptive regulation, but we do want precautionary monitoring,” said Jakob Von Weizsäcker, a German center-left member of the European...

The Luxembourg government approved Monday a national payment institution license for Bitstamp, making the company the first fully licensed and regulated bitcoin exchange in Europe. According to a press release sent to CoinReport, the license goes into effect on July 1, 2016, and...

Bitcoin anonymity may be a thing of the past in the European Union. Yesterday, the European Commission released a press release that outlines an Action Plan to strengthen the fight against terrorism financing. The plan will focus on disrupting sources of revenue used by terrorist...

There’s been a lot of worldwide news over the past week regarding policies toward Bitcoin. Last week, the European Court of Justice ruled the cryptocurrency was exempt from value-added tax (VAT), a decision that all EU nations must now follow. While this is a great hurdle...