Bitcoin

Cryptocurrencies and taxing the leading edge of change

4 Sep 17, 9:40am

Terry Baucher says the growth of cryptocurrencies underlines the need for comprehensive tax reform in NZ especially in relation to capital
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Ad hoc approach to taxing capital gains 'unsustainable'

29 Aug 17, 8:04am

Terry Baucher

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Terry Baucher on why KiwiSaver and Bitcoin mean some form of comprehensive capital taxation is inevitable
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Why NZ needs to wake up to the disrupter of all disrupters

28 Aug 17, 9:07am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Auckland University Professor Alex Sims on why the Government needs to get up with the play and start regulating cryptocurrencies
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Gold, BitCoin and blockchain technology

9 Jul 17, 10:06am

Guest

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Ever since BitCoin was invented, comparisons have been drawn with gold, often to gold’s detriment. Charles Morris argues that BitCoin and gold can happily co-exist, while technological advances will ultimately work to gold’s benefit
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'Banishing online financial companies will come back to bite us'

18 May 17, 1:55pm

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Joshua Brown pushes back against calls to abolish NZ's Financial Service Providers Register and warns against NZ losing its position as 'one of the best countries for enterprising individuals'
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Tech wonder child weighs in on AML de-risking debate

12 May 17, 11:14am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Founder of the world's second largest digital currency urges regulators to get banks to stop blanket de-risking; RBNZ ‘generally comfortable’ with banks’ approaches to cryptocurrency
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Tech wonder child weighs in on AML de-risking debate

12 May 17, 11:14am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Founder of the world's second largest digital currency urges regulators to get banks to stop blanket de-risking; RBNZ ‘generally comfortable’ with banks’ approaches to cryptocurrency
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'We're not trying to prop up any current business models'

29 Nov 16, 12:02pm

Gareth Vaughan

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Auckland University academic leading research project on regulating digital currencies keen to see consumers, not just banks, benefit
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Fintech innovation celebrated at Payments NZ conference

9 Nov 16, 9:43am

Gareth Vaughan

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Dexibit, which uses data and analytics to provide insights into visitor behaviour for museums, wins fintech innovation challenge
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President Trump would boost Bitcoin

5 Jul 16, 9:43am

Gareth Vaughan

Juniper Research sees Brexit, Chinese economic weakness and reduced money supply sending value of Bitcoin transactions surging this year
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Can you bank on Brexit?

29 Jun 16, 10:18am

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Andrew Cornell says the worst case Brexit knock-on effect for the global economy and banking industry would be a large-scale retraction of globalisation and a retreat into simplistic nationalism
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Japanese bank creating its own digital currency

23 Jun 16, 11:02am

Gareth Vaughan

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Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi developing its own virtual currency using blockchain technology
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Friday's guest Top 10

13 May 16, 10:24am

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Xero's Lena Hesselgrave on the future of Bitcoin post Panama Papers, concerns around housing consents issued in Auckland, the spectrum of crazy in the US election, how to hike productivity, why smartphone growth is dwindling & more
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Why the blockchain should be familiar to you

13 May 16, 9:34am

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David Andolfatto explains that blockchain tech works using a similar localised trust network humans have built and used ever since families communicated - which explains its power and potential
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Nine reasons why banks aren’t using blockchain

12 May 16, 5:03am

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ANZ's Christian Venter details nine reasons why banks aren’t using blockchain
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Friday's guest Top 10

6 May 16, 10:09am

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First Union's Morgan Godfery on Trumps breaking out everywhere; the pain of incentives; wanting it both ways with houses; an enranged house hunter writes; trouble with trade; Dilbert & more
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Time for a cashless society?

7 Feb 16, 5:02am

Bernard Hickey

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Bernard Hickey suggests removing cash and adopting a blockchain-type system for transactions and savings accounts that is set up and hosted by the central bank to combat deflation, tax evasion and crime
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