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MARCH 12, 2020

Meanwhile, as the tax authority in Australia puts digital currency traders in its sights, many people in the country will get a warning in the following weeks from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), news.com.au Digital currencies, for their part, are seen as a property type and an asset when it comes to capital gains tax.

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MAY 13, 2016

Stop ISIS, bring peace to the Middle East, clean up the economy, create more jobs, fix the education system, lower taxes, etc., Promoting bitcoin. Of course, when the former commissioner, Bart Chilton, says bitcoin, he’s talking blockchain and all digital currencies. So, why digital currencies? Oh, please.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Who knew that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, known for their early involvement in Facebook, were in love with bitcoin? You might, when you find out that they were the first to file for a bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). And do you care?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At this writing, bitcoin trades were at $6,352. So too, for that matter, has the crypto space at large, where hundreds of billions of dollars in market capitalization have been lopped off by investors, as evidenced by nadirs seen over the summer. Bitcoin stands out for the month with “only” a 4.5

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Hong Kong’s new regulations and supervision on digital assets transactions validates the importance of blockchain technology and digital assets, which is good news for the whole industry,” Cai said in a speech at the World Blockchain Summit in Wuzhen, China.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Although blockchain technology and Bitcoin, its best-known inhabitant, have been around for 10 years, the world is just now entering a seismic transition from holding account-based assets to a system that uses token-based digital assets. For example, Bitcoin is not money. This is a really seismic shift.”. That's the best we've done.”.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The blueprint for the proposed digital currency seems to offer Beijing extraordinary supervision over the flow of money, giving regulators economic control that most central banks do not have. “We I think you will see it very soon, in the next maybe two to three months,” Lee told CNBC at the FinTech Festival on Monday (Nov 11).

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Understanding how much you’re being paid, and how much goes to taxes, can be easily misunderstood. There are so many regulations to keep track of. Small business owners, on top of other responsibilities, have to quickly get acquire payroll to retain talent and remain tax compliant. You have to figure it out on the fly.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Just like the volatility of bitcoin, the world of blockchain is no stable place. More big names strengthened their blockchain ties this week, too, including IBM and the venture capital arm of Comcast, Comcast Ventures, which announced their support for a new blockchain accelerator, MState. But it’s not all smooth sailing.

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JULY 24, 2018

If the SEC states that XRP is indeed a security, then regulation becomes (ostensibly) more onerous, taxes become more rigorous on capital gains … and among other tenets, XRP is sold on a number of exchanges, between passive investors (Ripple issues the XRP that it has). Ripple calls it an “independent digital asset.”

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 9, 2015

While there are dozens of bitcoin trading platforms available to people looking to buy and sell bitcoin, itBit easily differentiates itself from the masses. This is what sets the New York-based company apart from its numerous competitors– it is the only regulated bitcoin trading platform open to all U.S.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

In a statement, Tungsten CEO Richard Hurwitz said that, if SMEs realized even a portion of this savings potential, “profitability would soar, and working capital, as well as cash flow, would be significantly improved, allowing businesses to be more agile and flexible.”

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AUGUST 22, 2016

In his brand new book, “ The Curse of Cash ,” Rogoff also devotes a fair number of his pages to Central Banks’ inability to regulate monetary policy because, among other things, there’s too much cash being hoarded by people who are, by and large, engaging in bad behavior with it. Reality Check: Bitcoin Is For Criminals. Why bitcoin?

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Like taxes. Here it is.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Like taxes. Here it is.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

you get paid some market-clearing interest rate to loan out assets like Bitcoin, which someone is borrowing for a trading or hedging purpose. According to Blockchain Capital below, nearly 40% of the stablecoin market is Ethereum-based Tether, accounting for 80% of transaction value overall. Who is your counterparty?

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MyBankTracker

JULY 31, 2020

Under Federal Regulation D , withdrawals from a savings account are limited to no more than six per statement cycle. Treasury securities has the advantage of being tax-free for state income tax purposes. However, it is taxable for federal income tax purposes. Tax Consequences. Short-term bonds.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Conventional wisdom dictates that startups should incorporate with taxes and stock options in mind. Many major projects have employees spread across the globe, or are headquartered in regulation-friendly financial zones like Switzerland or Singapore. Bitcoin miners, for example, incur costs for electricity and computing rigs.

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

I wonder how many of them will buy Bitcoin! It is becoming a truism that companies are going public much later in their vintage, and as a result, the capital that fuels their growth is private rather than public. The barrier to entry into the private markets is not just existing regulation?—?which

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

I wonder how many of them will buy Bitcoin! It is becoming a truism that companies are going public much later in their vintage, and as a result, the capital that fuels their growth is private rather than public. The barrier to entry into the private markets is not just existing regulation?—?which

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least. And yet, only 2% of all Bitcoin transactions have anything to do with illicit activity?—?no

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least. And yet, only 2% of all Bitcoin transactions have anything to do with illicit activity?—?no

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The regulator and media pressure on overdraft fees has been a constant challenge to overdraft revenue. With large banks, including Ally and Capital One, officially doing away with overdraft fees, banks and credit unions will have to decide how they want to handle the new reality. We aren’t talking just Bitcoin or Ethereum.

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Bankelele

DECEMBER 24, 2015

On Tuesday, December 15th , the Central Bank of Kenya issued a public notice on bitcoin in the Daily Nation: CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC ON VIRTUAL CURRENCIES SUCH AS BITCOIN – it read. As part of the Bitcoin community here in Kenya, I am a vocal advocate of digital currencies, writing extensively on the subject over the past 2 years.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

million in Series A funding, provides blockchain-native accounting, auditing and tax software for blockchain and crypto companies and the financial professionals that service them. You have to report to the IRS on a line-item basis every single time you dispose of an asset that results in a capital gain or loss,” he said.

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JUNE 9, 2017

million in Series A funding from Vancouver Founder Fund and TIMIA Capital. There is a ton of regulation.”. A digital currency (not bitcoin, she said) may also be on the horizon to enable the same kind of efficiency in B2B payments that’s already been achieved in B2C transactions. “I Shortlist just raised $1.5

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Vitalik Buterin

APRIL 20, 2018

Harberger taxes can essentially replace eminent domain ), and given that blockchains lack access to trusted human-controlled courts, these kinds of solutions may prove to be be even more ideal for blockchain-based markets than they are for “real life”. Harberger taxes. What do Posner and Weyl talk about? the highest bidder).

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Brown, instead of managers getting stock options or guaranteed bonuses, every manager got paid $7,800 a year (the equivalent of about $14,500 today), plus “a designated percentage of the profits of the company after these are reduced by a charge for capital employed.”. The result of this type of plan was to make each manager at H.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Unlike our own Minister of Finance, he is actually an economist and he spent a decade as the Director General of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce so he understands the relationship between regulation and business very, very well. Under Pax Mongolia, China prospered. From ValueWeb: Chris Skinner: 9789814677172: Amazon.com: Books.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

Avalara will detail the Weird and Wacky World of Sales Tax. Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S. There are over 12,000 taxing jurisdictions covering millions of taxability rule combinations. Blockcypher will explain how Bitcoin and block chains enable programmable money. It embraced Bitcoin and Ripple two years ago.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

More than half of companies surveyed by SWIFT and Dow Jones Risk & Compliance last year said they plan to invest in RegTech in the coming years, and most agree that technology has enabled a greater ability to remain compliant with key regulations surrounding anti-money laundering , Know Your Customer and more. In the U.S., In the U.K.,

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JULY 15, 2019

Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Stripe, PayU, Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Capital, Coinbase, Xapo, eBay, Uber, Lyft, Farfetch, Mercado Pago, Spotify and Vodafone are just a short sampling of the 28 founding members of the Libra Association, which will collectively develop the charter for the organization and frame its governance structure.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Tax season lurches to its end, and thoughts turn to who spends what and where and how. Awaiting consideration by the House of Representatives is banking regulation — or rather, deregulation. Now the House is, at some point, poised to take up its own consideration of that regulation. And what lies on the horizon?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Users May Withdraw Stored Bitcoin until July. BTCjam, a P2P marketplace launched in 2012 to borrow and lend using bitcoin, announced the company has made “the difficult decision” to close up shop, according to multiple news sources. Title: Wyre Pivoted Away from Consumer Bitcoin Payments. Product: BTCJam. Product: Bridj.

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