Australian crypto investors ‘sitting on the sidelines’ for clearer laws: Swyftx CEO

J.W. Verret is a Harvard-educated attorney who teaches corporate finance and accounting at George Mason University. His work has increasingly intersected with the cryptocurrency sector in recent years, as his legion of Twitter followers — who know him as “BlockProf,” or the Blockchain Professor — are poignantly aware. Aside from his work at GMU, Verret

The SEC is suing the cryptocurrency exchange for alleged unregistered securities offerings. 1112 Total views 2 Total shares According to a statement published by the Alabama Securities Commission on June 6, a multi-state task force comprising of state regulators from Alabama, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, South Caroline, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin have issued…

The recently reintroduced Token Taxonomy Act (TTA) will create a de minimis tax exemption for crypto transactions under $600, according to the executive director of Coin Center, Jerry Brito, at Consensus 2019 on May 13.The de minimis tax exemption stipulates that if a crypto owner experiences a capital gain up to $600 of crypto, then…

The platform has already raised more than half of its target and still has another 21 days to go before the NFT funding campaign ends. 142 Total views 14 Total shares So called “no-loss lottery” DeFi platform PoolTogether has raised 470.90 Ether (ETH) via NFT sales to fund its legal defense against a putative class…

Hester Peirce, commissioner for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, explained during an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph that decentralized finance, also known as DeFi, has created new challenges for the SEC. Peirce, nicknamed “Crypto Mom” for her interest in digital-asset innovation, mentioned that the quickly rising DeFi sector has resulted in a number of unresolved…

An internationally focused trading platform says it is offering a social element to finance that has never been seen before — bringing together a strong community who can talk strategy and collaborate to achieve strong results.As well as enabling users to trade some of the world’s top stocks — Netflix, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple among…

With the number of “wholecoiner” Bitcoin wallets holding at least 1 BTC increasing every year, the remaining addresses represent just 5% of Bitcoin’s market cap. 3323 Total views 24 Total shares New data suggests that “wholecoiners” — Bitcoin wallets holding 1 BTC or more — now account for 95% of the cryptocurrency’s entire capitalization. That…

The global events industry is a $800 billion market, and True Tickets CEO argues that on-chain tickets are the key to its growth. 209 Total views 9 Total shares True Tickets, the blockchain-based digital ticketing platform, made its Broadway debut last fall in collaboration with the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City. After a…