Financial authorities in the Netherlands plan a licensing scheme for crypto exchanges and wallet providers to lower the risk of financial crimes.
Europe's largest trader of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is entering the crypto world.
The World Economic Forum is working with the Canadian and Dutch governments to pilot a digital identity project that focuses in part on blockchain.
Regulators have issued a new warning to investors in the Netherlands about putting money into initial coin offerings (ICOs).
The Dutch port of Rotterdam, the biggest shipping hub in Europe, is opening a research lab devoted to blockchain technology.
A consortium in the Netherlands has published a roadmap that outlines how domestic companies are aiming to get up to speed on blockchain.
Dutch banking giant ABN Amro has denied it is seeking to release a consumer bitcoin wallet.
Holland’s central bank is preparing to open a campus dedicated to teaching others about blockchain. In early September of this year, De Nederlandsche Bank is expected to open a campus where banks and financial institutions can work together “under one roof” to learn more about the distributed ledger technology that underlies bitcoin, according to a […]
The Dutch central bank has committed to developing an internal blockchain prototype dubbed “DNBCoin”.
De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) head of research Jakob de Haan has issued new responses to pointed questions about the role of bitcoin in global finance.
Police have arrested six people in connection with an ongoing international money laundering investigation involving bitcoin. The authorities, which became suspicious following a series of large bitcoin trades, carried out various raids in and near Rotterdam – a city in the south of the Netherlands – leading to the arrests of four people in the […]
Police in the Netherlands are appealing for witnesses to find a person who is planting explosives and requesting a bitcoin ransom. According to the police, the first attacks took place in May, when the perpetrator placed explosive devices in three different Jumbo supermarkets – a chain of stores belonging to the Van Eerd Group – […]
Anycoin Direct has raised €500,000 as part of its seed funding round to expand its bitcoin brokerage service.
The Arnhem Bitcoincity project in the Netherlands now includes a local Spar supermarket.
While not yet official, there are hints that bitcoin transactions might not be liable for VAT in the Netherlands.