Many in the Australian digital currency ecosystem were pleasantly surprised when in this year’s Budget the Australian Treasurer announced an effective date for the removal of ‘double GST’ on digital currency transactions. Effective 1 July 2017, the purchase of digital currency will no longer be subject to Australian GST.
If you’ve been reading the 2016 pundit predictions in the digital currency and blockchain space you’ll notice a strong trend. Bitcoin is back! A number of articles (I’ve included some below) are calling this the comeback year for Bitcoin.So what has changed? Bitcoin still is… well
I recently had a chat with Tommy from the awesome Future Sandwich podcast. Enjoy and subscribe to it on Soundcloud or iTunes to keep up with this great new show.
This week two Spanish-born residents of London, Edurne and Mayel, sealed their union on a blockchain. What makes this interesting is that they were the first to use the recently announced public notary service being offered to Estonia e-residents via Bitnation’s platform.You may have heard of Bitnation before.
This week the Australian Senate Economics References Committee released its report in to digital currency - ‘Digital currency—game changer or bit player’ (yes, I kid you not, that’s the name of the report).Most media commentary regarding the report has centred around the committee’s recommendation to modify