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ForkLog 6 15.04.2021

German Greens received €1 million in Bitcoin

A software developer from Greifswald, Moritz Schmidt, donated €1 million (about $1.2 million) to the Greens in Germany.

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ForkLog 3 25.03.2021

Bundesbank tests CBDC-independent blockchain solution for settlements

Blockchain and traditional payment systems are compatible in settlements of electronic securities. This was confirmed by experiments conducted by the Bundesbank, BaFin and Deutsche Börse.

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ForkLog 27 08.03.2021

Donner & Reuschel to offer cryptocurrency services

The commercial German bank Donner & Reuschel, based in Hamburg, plans to offer clients services for buying and storing digital assets. CoinDesk reports.

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ForkLog 6 17.02.2021

German public company follows Tesla and MicroStrategy in investing in Bitcoin

SynBiotic SE, listed on several stock exchanges, announced that it became the first publicly traded German company to move part of its free liquidity into bitcoin.

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ForkLog 6 05.02.2021

German authorities have confiscated 1,700 BTC but have yet to gain access to them.

German prosecutors have been unable for several years to access the 1,700 BTC seized from a fraudster, worth more than $63 million, because the wallet password is unknown, Reuters reports.

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ForkLog 6 14.01.2021

Media: BaFin ignored warnings from a major bank about Wirecard manipulations

One of Germany's largest and oldest banks, Commerzbank, warned BaFin as early as the start of 2020 about manipulations by the now-bankrupt fintech Wirecard, but the regulator did not take any action. The Financial Times reports, citing sources familiar with the situation.

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ForkLog 9 12.01.2021

Germany shuts down the world’s largest darknet marketplace, DarkMarket

German authorities reported the successful operation to dismantle the darknet marketplace DarkMarket. It was described as the world's largest darknet marketplace.

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ForkLog 12 22.12.2020

Germany to effectively ban trading of crypto derivatives

A new tax regulation in Germany sets a €10,000 limit on losses from cryptocurrency derivative trades. Residents will be able to offset their personal income tax base by up to that amount, BitcoinExchangeGuide reported, citing local media.

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ForkLog 13 16.12.2020

Germany approves blockchain storage of stock-transaction records

The German government approved a bill that legitimises fully electronic securities within a broader blockchain strategy. Previously, the law required issuers and holders of securities to document transactions only with a paper certificate, Reuters reports.

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ForkLog 14 08.12.2020

Germany’s finance minister brands Libra’s renaming ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’.

Something more than a simple rebranding of Facebook's cryptocurrency will be required to ease regulators' concerns about its launch in Europe. German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said this, according to Reuters.

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ForkLog 5 03.12.2020

German private bank to launch cryptocurrency fund

An investment company created by the German private bank Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers AG for digital assets and the fintech Kapilendo announced a joint launch of a cryptocurrency fund.

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ForkLog 11 01.11.2020

Bundesbank selects Ocean Protocol to develop a decentralised data network

The German central bank selected the Singaporean blockchain project Ocean Protocol to develop a decentralised network for the secure publication, transfer and processing of public and private data. The tender results were published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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