Korean Government Seeks to Strip Tax Perks From Crypto Exchanges

Bitcoin may not be a financial bubble. But, when Bitcoiners reject inconvenient information, it is an epistemic bubble. (AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images)Jan 27, 2021 at 5:22 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 27, 2021 at 5:23 p.m. UTC“There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.” – Neil Gaiman, “American Gods”In a recent piece for Coin Geek titled “The…

Paxos Lift Dollar offers users a programmatic daily rate of around 5%, aligned with returns on U.S. Treasury bonds.USDL is regulated by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM).00:56What's Stopping Congress From Passing Crypto Regulation?02:06Eisenberg's $110M Fraud Trial Opens; FSI Calls for Consistency in Stablecoin Regulation02:11El Salvador Bags Major Bitcoin

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesArtificial intelligence (AI)-related tokens surged after chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) beat its already lofty fourth-quarter earnings expectations. Nvidia on Wednesday reported earnings per share of $5.16, topping

Aug 26, 2020 at 15:33 UTCUpdated Aug 26, 2020 at 15:40 UTCU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman (John Lamparski/Getty Images)The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has formally adopted new accredited investor rules, expanding the group of Americans who can invest in private securities. The new definition, which lets individuals holding certain licenses meet the…

Most of us have heaved a desperate sigh of relief on waking from a terrifying nightmare. On June 17, 2016, Christoph Jentzch instead awoke inside of one.“I was sleeping. My brother called me, so my wife woke me up. She said, ‘[Your brother] says something is wrong,’” he recalls. “I saw that it was a…

Mar 30, 2020 at 12:42 UTCUpdated Mar 30, 2020 at 13:26 UTCTelegram CEO Pavel Durov, photo via TechCrunch/Wikimedia CommonsTelegram has asked a court to clarify what exactly it must do to comply with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) order banning the issuance of its gram tokens.Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Kevin Castel…

Apr 29, 2020 at 19:43 UTCFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell conducts the 107-year-old central bank's first-ever remote video press conferenceBitcoin's price jumped Wednesday by the most in six weeks, outpacing U.S. stocks, after the Federal Reserve pledged to keep pumping new money into markets and government data showed the economy sliding into recession.Bitcoin rallied 12%…

A16z and Ripple have now each plowed nearly $50 million into the industry's shared Fairshake PAC.The political action committee's has so far supported several crypto-friendly winners in congressional primaries, often flooding the local markets with significant advertising dollars. A $25 million donation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) hit the campaign coffers of the industry's U.S. political

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