US policy group proposes Bitcoin tax-free zone for digital economy growth

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekA calmer week for Bitcoin — but price may not return to…

Recession fears mount as a 20% decline in the S&P 500 places stock in a bear market, increasing the chance that BTC and altcoins will make new lows. 194 Total views 32 Total shares Whoever coined the phrase “sell in May and go away” had brilliant insight and the performance of crypto and stock markets…

FET and other AI tokens are outperforming the wider crypto market this week, but is the rally purely driven by investors' earnings expectations for Nvidia?

Countries failing to adhere to anti-money laundering (AML) guidelines for cryptocurrencies could find themselves added to the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF's) “grey list."According to a Nov. 7 report from Al Jazeera, sources say the global financial watchdog is planning to conduct annual checks to ensure countries are enforcing AML and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) rules…

The Bank of Russia has expressed concerns over the increasing number of local investors pouring their money into Bitcoin. 528 Total views 4 Total shares The Russian central bank has once again reiterated its negative stance on Bitcoin (BTC), with one of the bank’s top executives comparing the cryptocurrency with a pyramid scheme.Sergey Shvetsov, the…

Cointelegraph explored Web3 creator economy protocol DEIP’s metaverse in an online event last week. 406 Total views 15 Total shares A metaverse project that would provide a digital hub for creators gave the community an opportunity to travel within its metaverse city and explore an early version of the vision that it aims to achieve.Last…

Academic researchers at the University of Cambridge (UoC) have launched a real-time index that tracks the total electricity consumption of the Bitcoin network.The news was revealed in an announcement posted by the university’s interdisciplinary academic research institute, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), on July 2.The now-live Index — the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption…

The Ethereum network is  losing ground as developers switch to other projects, various experts told Bloomberg on March 28.Ethereum, which debuted in 2015, initially provided a platform on which developers could build decentralized apps (DApps), conduct initial coin offerings (ICOs) and write smart contracts. Many saw it as being the successor to Bitcoin (BTC).According to…

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