Popular Australian crypto exchanges Coinjar, Cointree and Swyftx have partnered with Koinly to track their clients’ tax obligations. Crypto taxation software provider Koinly has announced a partnership with three Australian digital asset exchanges to simplify their clients’ tax reporting. Coinjar, Cointree and Swyftx announced support for Koinly on July 29, allowing the exchanges’ customers to […]
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Schiff makes some controversial assertions about gold’s prowess as mainstream interest in both gold and Bitcoin surges. Bitcoin (BTC) loses to gold when it comes to how easy it is to transport and confiscate, says Peter Schiff. In a tweet on July 29, the gold bug and infamous Bitcoin skeptic claimed that it was easier […]
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Bakkt breaks another record with more than 11,700 Bitcoin futures contracts traded on Tuesday. Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary, Bakkt, is reporting record numbers of trades for its monthly Bitcoin futures contracts as BTC prices made a new high for the year. The institutional investing platform reported its highest ever figure for Bitcoin monthly futures on Jul. […]
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The founder of Synthetix believes that the DeFi ecosystem is realizing many of the promises that the fintech sector has failed to deliver. Kain Warwick, founder of DeFi derivatives platform Synthetix, argues that projects built on Ethereum can finally deliver on many of the promises that fintech failed to. Despite ten years of development, Warwick […]
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Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust currently holds $4.3B assets under management, but this growth may be due to ‘in kind’ purchases. Crypto fund manager Grayscale Investments has managed to increase its assets under management by another $1 billion in less than two weeks. According to an update posted to Grayscale’s Twitter account on July 28, the investment […]
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At a webinar targeting financial advisors, Grayscale’s managing director preached the value of Bitcoin and warned against physical representations of the asset. In a webinar hosted by InvestmentNews, Grayscale Investments’ managing director, Michael Sonnenshein, and financial consultant, Tyrone Ross Jr., educated financial advisors about the benefits of crypto investments. A slide from Sonnenshein’s presentation. Grayscale […]
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The leaders of two tech giants are using nationalism to win back the governments of their respective home countries after stumbling over crypto launches. Two icons of tech — one American, one Russian — are hard at work trying to win back the jilted governments of their home countries by stirring up concerns over foreign […]
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A new ransomware from North Korea targets major companies. A group of hackers associated with the North Korean regime have kept their crypto extortion efforts alive in 2020. A group of North Korean hackers operating under the name “Lazarus” targeted several crypto exchanges last year, according to a report published by Chainalysis. One of the […]
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As Bitcoin price surged above $10K, USDT exchange inflows reached an 8-month high. Tether (USDT) exchange inflow has recently spiked to its highest level in the last 8 months, according to data from on-chain data provider Glassnode. Exchange inflows for the stablecoin reached a 2020 high yesterday as Bitcoin (BTC) soared to $10,270, although BTC […]
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Russia’s central bank argues that crypto purchases are not considered an investment. Despite Russia recently passing its first major legislation devoted to cryptocurrencies, the country’s central bank continues to treat the industry as a criminal area. Sergei Shvetsov, the first deputy governor at the Bank of Russia, has voiced the bank’s negative stance towards crypto […]
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