US Treasury strategy for financial inclusion mentions digital assets

Cryptocurrency finance company Circle Internet Financial Ltd. has acquired equity crowdfunding platform and broker-dealer SeedInvest, according to an announcement published October 5. Exact terms of the transaction were not disclosed.New York-based SeedInvest was founded in 2012 as a startup investing platform. Since then, the company has reportedly raised capital for 220 firms through more than…

Crypto research firm Messari has estimated that Bitcoin could trade for $50,000 each if institutions allocate a low-single-digit portfolio percentage to BTC. 2243 Total views 69 Total shares Messari’s Ryan Watkins has crunched the numbers and predicts that if institutions allocate just 1% of their portfolios to Bitcoin, then BTC’s market cap could rise to…

This in turn could reduce the headaches involved when achieving consensus. Bison Trails, a Blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service provider, has created double-signing protection software, or DSP, which aims to address the slashing penalties associated with double signing messages.According to the company, many digital asset holders consider slashing penalties to be one of the “main risks” of Blockchain…

Google announced that its browser-based AI program, Bard, will be used by Google Assistant devices soon. 133 Total views 1 Total shares Google Assistant will begin incorporating Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) chat service, Bard, into its responses “soon,” according to an October 4 social media post from the development team.— Made by Google (@madebygoogle) October

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An advisory committee of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants the agency to provide additional guidelines for the taxation of crypto transactions, according to a 2018 general report published Oct. 24.Although in 2014 the IRS had already issued commentary specifically on digital currencies,  recommending they be treated as a property, the Information Reporting Program…

The boss of the world's largest crypto exchange said we've been through this before as a community. 660 Total views 6 Total shares Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as “CZ,” said in a recent interview that a potential crypto winter is good for business.When asked how Binance will fare during the current crypto winter…