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Bitcoin Daily: S. Korea Eyes Crypto Capital Gains Tax; Crypto Lawyers See Rise In Demand

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South Korean crypto users might soon see 20 percent taxes on their currency, according to Cointelgraph. ” But Sung Tae-yoon , an economist with Yonsei University, warned that taxing cryptocurrencies could slow the country’s tech markets. They falsely claimed to have a Harvard-educated CEO backing them. And, the U.S.

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Bitcoin Daily: South Korean Crypto Startup Steals $2.7M In Exit Scam; Venezuela Wants World’s Oil Market To Use Petro

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According to The Next Web , hours after moving all raised funds out of its wallet, the company shut down its website, deleted its social media accounts and kicked all users off its chat group. And Venezuela is trying to lure the world’s oil markets to start using its national cryptocurrency, the petro.

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Bitcoin Daily: France Votes To Include Crypto In Insurance Contracts; VC Draper Could Team With Facebook For Crypto Venture

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With these two provisions, it is written in black and white that SPFs can invest in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin,” said Simmons & Simmons attorney Emilien Bernard-Alzias, according to CCN. The life insurance market in France makes up 40 percent of financial assets among local households.

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On Radical Markets

Vitalik Buterin

Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets , which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “ political economy ” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.

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Using The Blockchain To Bring Banking To Everyone

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It was still three months before I could get a proper Norwegian bank account because I was temporary tax member. Given its colorful history and connection with bitcoin, blockchain may seem like an out-of-the-box choice on which for Taqanu to build its service. The idea is, if they have a smartphone, they generate all kinds of data.

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#31daysofwealthhacks – the joy, the tears and the learnings

Jessica Ellerm

And 1 in 10 Gen Y’s will post their resolutions to social media, in a bid to make themselves more accountable. So feeling very conformist, this year, I decided to revert to my Gen Y type and take part in some financial goal setting, combined with social activity. The birth of #31daysofwealthhacks. Switched banks.

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Sacred Data for Sale, steal it while you can!

Lex Sokolin

On average, a stolen digital human is about $200 on the black market, and the per-capita cost of a data breach to the company is roughly the same. And yet, only 2% of all Bitcoin transactions have anything to do with illicit activity?—?no For many of us, we are fine losing social media photos, Twitter puns, or even our passwords.

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