Proposed US bill wouldn’t allow taxing block rewards at acquisition

in a recent Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session, billionaire Ray Dalio warned investors that the current astronomical pace of money printing is unlikely to stop in the near future and holding wealth in cash could lead to losses. Dalio said that Bitcoin (BTC) “could serve as a diversifier to gold and other such storehold of wealth…

Over the last 12 months, market analysts and commentators have relentlessly predicted that the United States is heading for a recession. However, the U.S. economy has been remarkably resilient and defied the forecasts. Indeed, we now have the U.S. Federal Reserve discounting a recession from its current modeling, as Fed Chair Jerome Powell emphasized at…

Bitcoin (BTC) is the collateral asset of choice for the world's biggest decentralized stablecoin, and one of its top executives says there was no other.Speaking to Bloomberg on April 4, Do Kwon, co-founder of Blockchain protocol Terra, pledged to continue buying BTC to back the firm's stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST).Kwon: BTC buys will continue "in perpetuity"Terra…

Ether (ETH) bulls seem excited by the recent $4,870 all-time high that was hit on Nov. 10. While it was a new high in U.S. dollar terms, ETH is still 51% below June 2017’s price in Bitcoin (BTC) terms. But it’s entirely possible that the 0.155 BTC level reached in the previous cycle reflected the…

Qualified digital asset custodian, Anchorage Trust Company, has added XRP to the list of assets supported by its institutional custody solution. The company announced support for the third largest cryptocurrency by market cap in a blog post on April 2.Anchorage claims that its custodial solution is safer than cold storage, while allowing the benefits of…

Tether’s CTO Paolo Ardoino believes that artificial intelligence would choose to use Bitcoin over more centralized cryptocurrencies like stablecoins. If humanity were to amalgamate with artificial intelligence in the future, Bitcoin could be the native currency of choice for sentient machine intelligence, according to Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino.Ardoino delved into this hypothetical reality in conversation with…

‘We can liquidate it any day of the week, any hour of the day,’ said Michael Saylor. Michael Saylor has said that all $400 million of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin reserve holdings could be liquidated at any time.In a Sept. 22 interview, Saylor told Bloomberg that although “volatility isn’t really a reason to sell,”…

The pace of adoption of crypto exchange-traded funds in the United States has been surprising even to Grayscale.

Yesterday, Sept. 24, Cointelegraph reported from the United States House Financial Services hearing with the chairman and four commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The hearing was informational and touched on a number of issues that have been plaguing the conversation in the U.S. about regulating cryptocurrencies — a conversation that the release…