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Bitcoin Daily: Venezuela May Collect Taxes In Crypto; Russian Agency Proposes AI To Track Crypto Transactions

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Venezuela may be going forward with a plan to allow the use of the Petro (PTR) cryptocurrency to pay taxes, according to Cointelegraph. Ackerman is accused of wire fraud, and if convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison and be fined $250,000.

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Bitcoin Daily: UK Tax Agency Defines Crypto As Commodities; Crypto Exchange Bittrex Sued For SIM Card Bitcoin Theft

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s tax authority has released cryptocurrency tax guidance for businesses, revealing that crypto assets will still be defined as commodities. That means that companies that participate in trading exchange tokens must make tax payments.

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Bitcoin Daily: Russian Government Bans Officials From Holding Crypto; BuyUCoin Hack Leaks Private Data Of 325,000 Users

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The data leaked included names, email addresses, phone numbers, bank account details and tax ID numbers, the report stated. Lastly, while cryptocurrencies might never replace fiat currencies as a medium of exchange, they could replace gold as a store of value, according to research from the Bank of Singapore , The National reported.

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Bitcoin Daily: Gemini Exchange Joins Silvergate Exchange Network; UK’s National Liberal Party Reveals Crypto Policy

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And the United Kingdom’s National Liberal Party (NLP) has posted what it believes is the only coherent policy regarding cryptocurrencies. The sheer volume of transactions makes this a national security threat,” the party wrote in a post on its website. The current policy is a non-policy.

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Bitcoin Daily: Tether’s Parent Co. Hit With $1T Lawsuit; Nearly $10B In Bitcoin Held In Crypto Exchanges

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Plaintiffs say that the actions of iFinex was “part fraud, part pump-and-dump and part money-laundering.”. In other news, $10 billion worth of bitcoin — or almost 7 percent — is currently held in the wallets of eight major cryptocurrency exchanges. Coin Telegraph reported that Token Analyst found that almost 1.2 Robertson controlled.”.

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Data Dive, Breaches And Security Blips Edition: Key Bank, Microsoft And Bulgaria 

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KeyBank’s Costly Payroll Fraud Problem . Regional banking force KeyCorp disclosed a massive fraud that could potentially cost as much as $90 million – according to reporting out of CNBC last week. A loss for KeyCorp – but by far not the weeks’ biggest, or most explosive case of fraud. Starting with.

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Governments Fuel Blockchain’s Global Proliferation

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Governments may not be too keen on bitcoin, but blockchain is another story. Perhaps it isn’t surprising that analysts are now musing about how to avoid a repeat of the Punjab National Bank fraud scandal, and some are looking towards blockchain to do so. United States.