<story><title>German parliament passes bill allowing banks to sell and store cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://decrypt.co/12603/new-law-makes-germany-crypto-heaven</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m-i-l</author><text>This article is attempting to put an extremely positive spin (&amp;quot;new law makes Germany &amp;#x27;crypto[currency] heaven&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;leads to institutional investors&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;major breakthrough&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;massive for adoption&amp;quot;) on a government crackdown. To be expected given that decrypt.co is funded by ConsenSys, which was in turn founded by someone who had (in Feb 2018) an estimated &amp;quot;net worth in cryptocurrency to be between one and five billion [US] dollars&amp;quot;[0], so they have a vested interest in promoting cryptocurrencies. But why does this sort of advertising keep on cropping up on HN?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Joseph_Lubin_(entrepreneur)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Joseph_Lubin_(entrepreneur)&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>German parliament passes bill allowing banks to sell and store cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://decrypt.co/12603/new-law-makes-germany-crypto-heaven</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>Seems they&amp;#x27;re making all crypto exchanges not registered in Germany illegal for their citizens. I wonder what the punishment will be for a German who buys crypto from an unregistered exchange?</text></comment>