Saul Canelo (3L)
The editors of the 2018-2019 Edition of the St. Thomas Law Journal of Complex Litigation have selected third-year law student Saul Canelo’s article for publication.
His article, Now Accepting Virtual Currencies:Bitcoins and United States Regulation, focuses on the new digital currency and how the US government can provide a uniform definition to Bitcoin, categorizing it either as a currency or a “unit of account.” He argued that achieving a uniform Bitcoin legislation provides a framework for the world that Bitcoin can be regulated, and his belief that it could have the potential to become a new form of universally accepted currency once universally regulated.
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