Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Open Letter to European regulators on the migration path to a future EU crypto-market with licensed and trustworthy companies

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In this blog post, I will share the letter below, which I just sent off to a EU Commission Official from FISMA. I hope the letter speaks for...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Crypto-episode as a part of the Dutch financial history timeline

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Over the past two years a historic sequence of events unfolded in the Netherlands with respect to the introduction of a crypto registration ...
Tuesday, January 05, 2021

Response by Simon Lelieveldt to FINCEN consultation on crypto, travel rules and such

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This blogpost/longread (below) contains the content of reflections, as sent to the FINCEN as a response to the consultation on travel rule f...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Facebook: a limited network exemption in the Netherlands?

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Here is a brief post, to alert professionals in the field to the fact that Facebook Inc has in the Netherlands been registered as an exempt ...
Saturday, May 02, 2020

Contemplating 75 years of freedom: a dark story on three Dutch lessons never learnt

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First of all I must warn all readers. This is not a happy blogpost. It is not funny. It is a dark and sobering tale of lessons that we shoul...
Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Perspectives on (Ca-)Libra #3: Why the Libra is not e-money (on the history of e-money and stablecoins)

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Quickly after the announcement of Libra, I, stated that Libra could not be viewed as e-money. Now has come the time to explain my earlier an...