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UK lawmakers said that the country wants to take advantage of the advantages that blockchain can offer to the private sector and economy and that crypto regulations in the UK could be implemented within a year.
The U.K. Treasury's economic secretary, Andrew Griffith, stated in an interview with CNBC on April 17 that the long-term goal is to "let firms make the most of the opportunities from crypto assets" with effective crypto regulation.
Griffith asserted that the United Kingdom government is now in a position to regulate cryptocurrency in a "pragmatic" and "proportionate" manner for the first time in "decades." He likewise seemed to allude to the UK exit from the European Association:
"I think the timeframe is in the next 12 months or so. We have a great asset in the United Kingdom: control over a set of rules, which the United Kingdom hasn't had in decades, allowing us to move quickly and proportionally.
The legislator argued as a result that the United Kingdom now possesses a "growth mindset" to maximize the economic benefits of private sector tech innovation.
Griffith made sense of the crypto administrative system would blend existing monetary resource regulations with new crypto-explicit standards.
"Wherever possible, we want to see the same asset regulated in the same way, but "we want to take advantage of some additional opportunities in the space of crypto assets or distributed ledgers."
He gave the example of settlement with fiat-backed cryptocurrencies, which was in the financial services bill. Therefore, that will be implemented even earlier than the broader regulatory framework," he added.
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