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Arizona, Colorado, & Wyoming Push Legislation Supporting Cryptocurrency | Zero Hedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-14/arizona-colorado-wyoming-push-legislation-supporting-cryptocurrency
Authored by Brendan Weber via TruthInMedia.com,
Lawmakers in Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming have all recently taken legislative action that seeks to further support cryptocurrency.
On Thursday, the Arizona Senate passed a bill that would allow residents to pay income taxes using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This implementation has practical significance, allowing the use of cryptocurrencies as a payment option in a state revenue system legitimizes them as an everyday alternative payment medium.
A provision in the bill mandates that the cryptocurrency payments be exchanged for fiat currency within 24 hours. This provision seeks to address the volatility of cryptocurrency and mitigate state revenue concerns.
Republican Arizona State Representative Jeff Weninger, who co-sponsored the bill, said he wants Arizona to be at the forefront of technological innovation. He told Fox News:
“It’s one of a litany of bills that we’re running that is sending a signal to everyone in the United States, and possibly throughout the world, that Arizona is going to be the place to be for blockchain and digital currency technology in the future.”
Consideration by the Arizona House of Representatives will be the next step for this bill.
In Colorado, a bill was introduced in the Senate proposing the use of blockchain for governmental data security. Senate Bill 86 seeks to use the blockchain ledger feature for its ability to securely record transactions. The bill aims to “control functionality, track transactions, verify identities, support uniformity, resist tampering, enable logistical control for large numbers of participants, protect privacy, and support accountability and auditing.”
Sumana Nallapati, Colorado’s secretary of technology and state chief information officer told StateScoop:
“In Colorado, we try to be a leader in any technology that can transform and enable better government. To be an early adopter of blockchain, our hope is that it will allow Colorado to shape the industry by offering lessons learned, creating jobs, and providing better services to our customers.”
Legislators in Wyoming have introduced two bills, House Bills 19 and 70, that would limit regulatory control over cryptocurrency trading.
Coinbase, the most widely used buying and selling cryptocurrency platform, suspended its services in Wyoming a couple of years ago. Many other platforms followed their decision because the states regulatory burdens have been too costly.
The Wyoming Division of Banking requires cryptocurrency trading platforms to hold an equal value of fiat funds to the aggregate value of funds held by customers. Although Hawaii has the same regulation, this response has not been typical in other states.
Coinbase and other platforms found these regulations to impractical to continue services in the state.
House Bill 19 “would clarify the provision that state regulators are currently relying on to bar the trading” while House Bill 70 “would clarify that traders are not subject to certain other state finance regulations,” according to the Casper Star Tribune, providing the opportunity for platforms to continue services in the State.
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The Blockchain Is Not New, The Standard Is In The Federal Register As Of 1975, & There Is Already A Rewritable Version
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=89771
FEDERAL REGISTER: Volume 40, No. 52, Monday, Mar. 17, 1975 pages 12134 through 12139
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Wall Street & The Blockchain-Crypto Dance: Shake 'N Bake
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=89125
CRYPTOLOGIC REWRITABLE BLOCKCHAIN
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2017/202759
Abstract:
A cryptologic system includes circuitry for rewriting blockchains in a non-tamper-evident or tamper-evident operation using a key secret held by a trusted party. The blockchains may include a series of blocks secured by a chameleon hash that may prevent non-tamper-evident rewrites by non-trusted parties that are not in possession of the key secret. Rewrite circuitry of the system may determine randomness data from the chameleon hash and altered data from a rewrite. The randomness data may be written to the randomness field of a block overwritten with the altered data such that the block remains coding-consistent with the chameleon hash and other blocks in the blockchain.
Inventors:
ATENIESE, Giuseppe (1125 Maxwell Lane, Apt. 430Hoboken, New Jersey, 07030, US)
CHIARAMONTE, Michael T. (117 E. 77th St, Apt. 9CNew York, New York, 10075, US)
TREAT, David (27 Lost Mine Place, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 06877, US)
MAGRI, Bernardo (Via Alberto Fredda 29, Rome, 00139, IT)
VENTURI, Daniele (Via Minerbio 72, Rome, 00127, IT)
Filing Date:
05/23/2017
Assignee:
ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED (3 Grand Canal Plaza, Grand Street Upper, Dublin 4, IE)
GSC SECRYPT, LLC (1450 Garden Street, Apt. N503Hoboken, New Jersey, 07030, US)
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DISTRIBUTED KEY SECRET FOR CRYPTOLOGIC REWRITABLE BLOCKCHAIN
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2017/202757
Abstract:
A cryptologic system includes circuitry for rewriting blockchains in a non-tamper-evident or tamper-evident operation using a key secret held in portions by multiple individually untrusted parties. The blockchains may include a series of blocks secured by integrity codes that may prevent non-tamper-evident rewrites by non-trusted parties that are not in possession of the key secret or individually-untrusted parties in possession of only a portion of the key secret. In some cases, multiple individually-untrusted parties may combine their portions into the key secret. As a group, the multiple individually-untrusted parties may perform non-tamper-evident operation with respect to at least one integrity code within the blockchain.
Inventors:
ATENIESE, Giuseppe (1125 Maxwell Lane, Apt. 430Hoboken, New Jersey, 07030, US)
CHIARAMONTE, Michael T. (117 E. 77th St, Apt. 9CNew York, New York, 10075, US)
TREAT, David (27 Lost Mine Place, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 06877, US)
MAGRI, Bernardo (Via Alberto Fredda 29, Rome, 00139, IT)
VENTURI, Daniele (Via Minerbio 72, Rome, 00127, IT)
Filing Date:
05/23/2017
Assignee:
ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED (3 Grand Canal Plaza, Grand Street Upper, Dublin 4, IE)
GSC SECRYPT, LLC (1450 Garden Street, Apt. N503Hoboken, New Jersey, 07030, US)
To Trust The Block-Chain, Is To Trust The Book-Keepers
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