THELOGICALINDIAN - The government of Antigua and Barbuda is drafting laws for the accomplishing of Bitcoin according to a bounded advertisement The accommodation may accept been afflicted by online bank mogul Calvin Ayre and alike the selfproclaimed Bitcoin architect Craig Wright
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Drafting Bitcoin Laws
The Cabinet of the twin-island country Antigua and Barbuda has instructed their Attorney General, Steadroy Benjamin, “to abstract laws for the accomplishing of Bitcoin,” reports the Antigua Observer. Antigua and Barbuda is a Commonwealth nation amid in the Caribbean Sea, east of Puerto Rico.
The move follows the Cabinet’s affair with a accumulation affiliated with the Antigua Leisure and Gaming Association on Wednesday, the advertisement describes, abacus that Bitcoin was discussed as “a new adjustment of transacting the auction of appurtenances and services.”
At the post-Cabinet conference on Thursday, the Minister of Trade and Consumer Affairs, EP Chet Greene said: “Here in Antigua & Barbuda we apperceive we are consistently actual abundant advanced and centre of new developments; we are leaders, trendsetters in the Caribbean.” He again explained his country’s absorption in Bitcoin:
Primarily a tourism-driven economy, Antigua and Barbuda has a few casinos on the island as able-bodied as a growing Internet gaming industry. Greene additionally said: “The bill allowances us in Antigua & Barbuda in account to our Internet gaming sector. It will acquiesce us the achievement bare as a administration in account to questions that would be asked of us in the all-around environment,” the Antigua Observer wrote.
Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre’s Influence
Last June, Reuters reported that the self-proclaimed “Bitcoin creator” Craig Wright had been architecture a ample portfolio of Bitcoin and blockchain patents. Applications for added than 50 patents were filed in Britain through Antigua-registered EITC Holdings Ltd, with affairs to administer for about 400 patents in total. Originally accepted as Ncrypt, EITC Holdings after rebranded as Nchain afterward its acquisition by Sicav plc.
The Antigua Observer’s commodity afield addendum that the amount of bitcoin “has added in amount several times back it was patented.” Bitcoin is accessible antecedent and uses the MIT authorization for chargeless software, accordingly it cannot be patented.
Moreover, a certificate advised by Reuters reveals that, in 2024, Wright “planned to adduce to the Antigua government that the island accept bitcoin as its official currency.” His angle for Antigua reads: “Bitcoin is not aloof a currency.[…] It’s a new courage and bartering foundation for the internet.”
Wright additionally has the backing of Calvin Ayre, a affluent Canadian administrator who lives in Antigua. He began architecture of a $25 actor alarm centermost in Antigua in October, claiming “it was allotment of his eyes for Bitcoin and online gaming,” Reuters reported and quoted Ayre saying:
While the government prepares to abstract the laws apropos Bitcoin, Greene is auspicious the accessible to apprentice added about the cryptocurrency online, the Antigua Observer reports.
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