Virtual Assets (VAs) and Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) are an area of heightened international financial regulatory interest. Although the FATF has wasted much time as a politicized instrument of economic violence against smaller economies, there are nevertheless technical areas where...

This paper examines the concept and the criticisms of Steemit, with a view to situating its difficulties in imposing a self-regulating cryptoanarchist information network, as well its interesting meshing of blogging and social networking with a blockchain (Steem) database. This raises questions...