EU needs a permanent CBDC — Deutsche Börse CEO

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 promise is great for so-called smart cities, which will deploy a network of interactive sensors to achieve efficiency and innovation. The smart city vision includes driverless cars, renewable energy to aid a city’s power consumption, energy-efficient buildings, and communications systems that work with the location’s infrastructure to avoid waste, among other features.  A report by…

Axie Infinity is now the 11th-ranked NFT game by lifetime trade volume following a surge in players eager to get their hands on the platform’s governance token. DeFi is converging with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), with the Ethereum-powered game Axie Infinity seeing a spike in users ahead of the expected launch of the project’s governance token.Axie…

Head of Facebook's Calibra claimed that the recent withdrawal of the seven firms from the Libra Association has no impact on the project.Dropouts will still be able to work with LibraIn an interview with Yahoo Finance on Oct. 15, Calibra’s David Marcus argued that Facebook’s cryptocurrency project is “absolutely not” in jeopardy after PayPal, Visa,…

A new ransomware from North Korea targets major companies. 1428 Total views 17 Total shares A group of hackers associated with the North Korean regime have kept their crypto extortion efforts alive in 2020.A group of North Korean hackers operating under the name “Lazarus” targeted several crypto exchanges last year, according to a report published…

Weekly BTC trade volume has surged to dwarf the previous record by 100% amid Bitcoin’s dramatic run up to $40,000. 356 Total views 1 Total shares Bitcoin’s meteoric rally to $40,000 has seen BTC smash its previous all-time high for 'real' volume by roughly 100%.On Jan. 7, Quantum Economics founder Mati Greenspan shared a chart…