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Jan 12, 2021 at 9:08 a.m. UTCUpdated Jan 12, 2021 at 2:12 p.m. UTC(Paola Ocaranza/Unsplash)Bitcoin Whales Kept Accumulating During Monday’s CrashLarge bitcoin (BTC) investors, popularly known as whales, look to have bought Monday’s price dip, indicating confidence in the ongoing bull market. The number of bitcoin “whale entities” – clusters of crypto wallet addresses held by a…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service will require crypto brokers to file 1099 forms like their traditional investment-firm cousins, but decentralized finance (DeFi) operations and non-hosted wallet providers will have to wait for their own rule later in the year. The rule released Friday will go into effect for transactions starting in

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NEWS The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the country’s stock exchange, Singapore Exchange (SGX), have developed a settlement system for tokenized assets that can work across different blockchains. Announced by the nation’s Ministry of Communications and Information in a press release on Sunday, the newly completed delivery versus payment (DvP) system utilizes smart contracts…

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, will open trading in bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) with First Digital's FDUSD stablecoin with zero fees beginning tomorrow, according to a blog post.More specifically, all trading fees will be waived for BTC/FDUSD, and maker fees will be 0% on ETH/FDUSD until further notice as part of Binance's campaign.The…

news The cryptocurrency markets endured a loss of as much as $10 billion around 21:00 UTC on Thursday, following allegations that the Bitfinex exchange covered up an $850 million shortfall using the U.S. dollar-pegged Tether (USDT) stablecoin. The New York Attorney General’s office alleged in a statement on Thursday that Bitfinex lost $850 million and used customer…

Is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) ongoing war of attrition against the crypto industry a good use of tax money? Considering that the industry itself has, for years and years, been calling for intermediation by regulators you’d have to think yes. However, whenever such regulators attempt to reign in alleged bad actors, crypto’s

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Speaking of Bitcoin on the CoinDesk Podcast Network is brought to you by CrystalBlockchain.com.Why did a joke cryptocurrency with zero ambition find massive success, yet a calculated military campaign with plenty of ambition turned into a massive failure? With the right leverage, ten men can fight like one hundred, and one coin can spend like…