THELOGICALINDIAN - The Australian Government has appear a bill that would adapt agenda bill exchanges including bitcoin exchanges for the aboriginal time
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Australia to Regulate Bitcoin Exchanges
Australia’s Coalition Government announced a bill on Thursday that would adapt agenda bill exchanges.
This legislation is allotment of the country’s aboriginal date of reforms “to strengthen the Anti-Money Bed-making and Counter-Terrorism Costs Act and access the admiral of the Australian Transactions and Reporting Analysis Centre (Austrac),” according to the announcement. Austrac is the country’s banking intelligence bureau amenable for anti-money bed-making (AML) and counter-terrorism costs (CTF) regulations.
Among added proposals, the bill will “strengthen Austrac’s analysis and administration powers” as able-bodied as “close a authoritative gap by bringing agenda bill barter providers beneath the address of Austrac,” the advertisement reads, abacus that:
Australia’s move is in band with some added countries in their efforts to anticipate money laundering. In April, as the Japanese government started recognizing bitcoin as a adjustment of payment, it additionally imposed austere rules on bitcoin exchanges in adjustment to accede with AML and Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements.
Earlier this year, afterward investigations by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), abounding Chinese bitcoin exchanges apoplectic bitcoin withdrawals to abundantly upgrade their systems for the purpose of AML and KYC compliance. Also the European Union has been discussing how to appoint rules on bitcoin exchanges as allotment of its Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive.
Lawmakers Divided About Bitcoin
Within the Australian government, there are admiral who are agog on bitcoin and additionally those who are added skeptical. News.Bitcoin.com reported in June on Australian larboard action baton Bill Shorten who adumbrated that he wants to avert the use of cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, citation their accessible use by terrorists.
Meanwhile, the country concluded the double taxation analysis of bitcoin in July. Recently, two senators proposed for bitcoin to be fabricated an official bill of Australia in adjustment to addition the country’s banking competitiveness.
Bitcoin trading aggregate in Australia has additionally been growing. On Localbitcoins, account volumes accept been ascent steadily over the years, and afresh saw a fasten of over $2.5 actor AUD account of bitcoin.
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