The European Parliament continued to maintain crypto customers and advocates on the fringe of their seats final week as one more piece of doubtless dangerous laws — this time, a set of demanding information disclosure necessities for digital asset service suppliers — was rushed to a vote mere days after a close to miss on banning proof-of-work-based cryptocurrencies.

In contrast to the comparatively glad decision of the Markets in Crypto Property framework state of affairs, the EU’s new Anti-Cash Laundering guidelines retained all of the crypto-hostile language as they’re going into the following spherical of consideration, the so-called trialogue negotiations. If the foundations are enacted as they’re, compliant crypto exchanges may very well be compelled to halt transactions involving “unhosted” or self-custodied crypto wallets.

Self-hosted doesn’t imply “unhosted”

A digital greenback with out surveillance?

All quiet on the BTC ETF entrance