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OPINION: Why regulate crypto?

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Regular columnist Gavin Stewart offers his thoughts on the reasoning behind proposed crypto regulation in the UK.

The recent UK Government consultation on the regulatory regime for cryptoassets potentially offers several different answers to this question, and it’s worth looking more closely at what might lie behind the curtain.

With a little allowance for poetic licence, there are, perhaps, seven good reasons to regulate an activity:

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