{"id":"tp-1474","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-Up – March 15th, 2019","author":"Shampa Mani","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/1474","datePublished":"2019-03-15T12:13:08.000Z","dateModified":"2019-03-15T12:13:08.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"German Finance Ministry seeks to introduce regulation for blockchain-based securities The German Federal Ministry of Finance has published a paper that discusses the introduction of regulation for blockchain-based sec…","section":"Technology","references":[{"title":"German Finance Ministry seeks to introduce regulation for blockchain-based securities","url":"https://tokenpost.com/German-Finance-Ministry-seeks-to-introduce-regulation-for-blockchain-based-securities-1430"},{"title":"U.S. SEC Chairman agrees with staff analysis that Ethereum is not a 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