Crypto Biz: SEC cleans up Gensler-era mess
This week’s newsletter focuses on “Crypto Mom” Hester Peirce vowing to fix past SEC mistakes.
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Spanish stock exchange ready to test blockchain-based SME financing system
The Spanish stock exchange is moving forward with further tests of its planned blockchain-based system to finance small- and medium-scale enterprises. 1153 Total views 14 Total shares Spanish stock exchange Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, or BME is set to test its blockchain infrastructure for small- and medium-sized enterprise financing following a successful pilot run back…

New Zealand introduces OECD crypto reporting framework in new tax bill
Crypto service providers who fail to take “reasonable care” to comply with the requirements could be fined between 20,000 and 100,000 New Zealand dollars ($12,000 and $62,000).

SBF received $1 billion in personal loans from Alameda: FTX bankrupty filing
A fresh bankruptcy filing from FTX chief restructuring officer John Ray III highlights that Sam Bankman-Fried received $1 billion in loans from FTX-related silo companies. 552 Total views 5 Total shares Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried received a $1 billion personal loan from one of four silo companies deeply involved in the collapse of the…

Trump reportedly 'in good spirits,’ will still attend Nashville BTC conference
BTC Inc. CEO David Bailey says he spoke with the former president’s team in the wake of the July 13 assassination attempt.

China has no plan to replace USD with digital yuan, former PBoC head says
A former PBoC official says that his country has taken a cautious approach with the digital yuan. 1292 Total views 14 Total shares The Chinese government is not seeking to replace existing fiat currencies with its own digital currency, according to a former governor of the People’s Bank of China, or PBoC.Zhou Xiaochuan, the president…

Bitcoin Price Drop to $8.9K Caused by Whales Selling at Major Exchanges
As the weekly open commenced Bitcoin price dropped below $9,000 in a rapid pullback, liquidating $30 million in longs on BitMEX alone. According to market data, part of the sell off was the movement of crypto whales closing positions which led to panic selling among retail investors.Whales—individual investors that hold an immense amount of Bitcoin—have…

Blockchain Startup Bitfury Launches Artificial Intelligence Unit
Blockchain startup BitFury launched an artificial intelligence (AI) unit, Reuters reports on Aug. 13.“Data is the new oil”Bitfury chief executive officer and co-founder Valery Vavilov reportedly said that the company’s dive into AI is motivated by the need to analyze and extract information from great quantities of data. He reportedly noted that data is becoming…

Circle raises USDC cash-out fees, affecting large-scale redemptions
The fee structure revision primarily affects institutional investors and high-volume traders.