SEC Approves Exchange-Traded Bitcoin ETFs – Is This Also Possible in Germany?
A Bitcoin Spot ETF as approved in the USA cannot be launched in this form in Germany. Can Bitcoin be used as a reference value for other financial products?
Bitcoin as Legal Tender in El Salvador – Massive Implications for German Crypto Regulation?
Most probably the German legislator did not expect the following when introducing crypto assets as financial instruments: On the 9th of June 2021, the small Latin American country of El Salvador passed a new legislation that will declare Bitcoin its unrestricted, domestic legal tender. As of the new legislation will come into effect, payments made […]
Scaling Bitcoin via the Lightning Network – What Must be Considered by Crypto Businesses?
The Lightning Network promises to solve one of Bitcoin´s biggest problems: The Scalability. Due to its decentralized operation mode, the Bitcoin network itself can process and settle between seven and twelve transactions per second. In part this is due to the relatively small block size of just one Megabyte per block in comparison to other […]
