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    March 23, 2015, 06:46:23 AM
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    T3CLtd have you contacted/informed the Cyprus government about the ATM?
    If you didn't do so, I think you SHOULD do it and I give less than 0.1% chances you get a yes.
    If you don't plan to inform them, I give more than 99.99% as soon as they get notified about it, they will remove it and you will most likely end up in jail (Something I don't wish to happen though)
    Cyprus is the last place on earth to try something like that.

    I would be interested to know how you come to such a reactionary and uninformed opinion on the matter, bitkokos.

    We have spoken to both our local bankers and our auditors, Deloitte, who have informed us that with cryptocurrency not considered a financial product, there is no regulatory approval required for the operation of these machines. They are considered vending machines of 'electronic tokens of value', in the same way that one may currently walk into many local shops here and purchase mobile phone credits, or ukash vouchers etc.

    That Danny Brewster nearly ruined the reputation of bitcoin locally, by way of his centralised approach to how he intended to operate Neo & Bee, namely, as a bitcoin-bank/financial service business, before running off with the stash of bitcoin he had received from many investors (something previously alleged as having happened with fiat payments received to a UK limited company he had incorporated and abandoned prior to his Cyprus venture), the resultant harm done to the image of cryptocurrency has been relatively easy to overcome in discussions here simply by pointing out that our operation allows us to ensure we do not hold any funds, crypto or fiat, belonging to our customers. The transaction is a simple real-time buy or sell through the machines.

    If you would care to do some minimal research, bitkokos, you will find plenty of information pertaining to the events surrounding Danny Brewster, Neo & Bee and Andreas Antonopoulos. The regulatory department taking issue with Neo & Bee at the time were the consumer advertising body, not the financial services authority, whom had already declined to 'license' Neo & Bee's bitcoin operations solely because they did not consider bitcoin to be a currency.

    http://antonopoulos.com/2014/04/18/neo-bee-a-statement-by-andreas-m-antonopoulos-a-consultants-perspective/
    Quote from: Andreas
    On March 13th, I received a call from George and Danny about some problems with the Cypriot advertising regulators. It seemed the regulators were acting on a consumer complaint and were challenging Neo & Bee’s ads saying that bitcoin had “absolute security” or some words to that effect. The regulators had done some Wikipedia research, seen the April 2013 blockchain fork and decided that the statement of absolute security was contradicted by those events. The Cypriot regulators wanted an expert provided by Neo & Bee to produce a statement explaining the April 2013 issues and to support N&B’s claim of “absolute security”.

    Also, with regards to your 'Cyprus is the last place on earth' to try developing a cryptocurrency business, would you care to elaborate on such a bold assertion? Many years of experience strongly suggests otherwise, unless you are better informed?



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