SEC Rejects 9 Bitcoin ETF Proposals

news The Singaporean government’s taxation agency is proposing to exempt its goods and services tax (GST) on cryptocurrency transactions that function or are aimed to function as a medium of exchange. The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) published last Friday an e-Tax draft guide for treatment on what it calls the “Digital Payment Tokens,” seeking…

Reddit is caught between a rock and hard place. With the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) that threatens to disrupt how people find information online and a massive boycott brewing in reaction to a move the legacy social media platform took to bolster itself, the company, which counts an obscene 57 million daily users, is…

The former head of FTX Europe has paid the highest sum ever for a Titanic buy memorabilia.Gruhn said he used money earned from the sale of his companies and did not know about the fraud at FTX before it imploded.00:58Bitcoin Is a More 'Superior Form of Sound Money' Than Gold: Kraken Head of Strategy11:19Upcoming Halving

news Amazon is seeking to integrate parts of its advertising business with a blockchain. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant is looking for a senior software engineer to join its “Advertising FinTech team focused on a Blockchain ledger,” according to a recent job posting. This new team, based in Boulder, Colorado, will be focused on billing and reconciliation systems…

The fund is starting out with $20 million in AUM, largely from family offices, and touts lower fees than the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust.Feb 3, 2021 at 5:05 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 3, 2021 at 5:20 p.m. UTCCrossTower Launches Bitcoin Fund to Compete With Grayscale’s GBTCCrypto capital markets firm CrossTower is launching a hedge fund at the…

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Gary Gensler was among three of the five committee members who approved the filings that made the first-ever spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) a reality.A commission votes notice on the SEC site shows Gensler, along with commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda, were the three members who

news Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of San Francisco blockchain startup Ripple, gave JP Morgan Chase qualified praise Wednesday for creating its own stablecoin, before dismissing the product’s likelihood of adoption by other banks and questioning its usefulness. During a fireside chat at the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s D.C. Blockchain Summit in Washington, Garlinghouse said he thinks it’s…

Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Cheyenne Ligon is a CoinDesk news reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy.…

You’d expect big-name traders to ensure high levels of security and steps in place to protect against phishing attacks and hacks, both of which plague the crypto ecosystem.But not Alameda Research. The beleaguered Sam Bankman-Fried run trading company lost at least $200 million to a variety of common attack vectors that run amok in the