Alaska included virtual currency in the regulation of money transfers – Bits Media

Since January 2023 years all companies, working with digital currencies on the territory of the northern American Shat, will be obliged to receive a separate license to carry out money transfers.

Banking and securities department (DBS) Alaska introduced the state amendments to the local administrative code, expanding the powers of regulatory bodies to control the transfer of any cash, Including virtual currency.

Changed rules provide, that companies, engaged in translating digital currencies to Alaska, from Alaska or within the state, will have to receive a special license.

DBS has adopted an expansion definition of "virtual currency", defining it as a “digital value of value, which is used as a means of exchange, calculated unit or means of savings, And not money, no matter, They are expressed in money or not ".

According to the regulator, Virtual currency is an acceptable investment, but only within the licensee's obligations of virtual currency to his clients, eg, When it is stored on behalf of such customers.

New rules will enter into force at the beginning 2023 of the year. Company, engaged in operations with digital currencies, will be required to give their activities in accordance with the requirements of the regulator, if they transfer or store assets within Alaska.

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On plans to expand the pilot program for using an excess of natural gas from oil wells Alaska for the energy support of surgery for cryptocurrency mining.