Day: March 28, 2023

Biden’s policy on crypto taxation undermines his environmental goals

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Gains accrued by staking cryptocurrency should not be treated as a taxable event. It only makes sense to tax such gains upon their conversion to legal tender currency. To do otherwise undermines a marquee environmental policy from the administration of United States President Joe Biden. The Internal Revenue Service appears strongly inclined to treat staking gains as immediate income. The penalties for getting sideways with the IRS can be draconian. And taxing, or threatening to tax, staking gains is bad policy — and, ahem, bad politics. There are many excellent…

Symphony COO Joins IOG CEO Cardano Blockchain Project

Input Output Global (IOG) is a software research and development company that played an imperative role in developing the blockchain platform Cardano. In its recent announcement, the company appointed Eran Barak as the CEO of its latest data-protection protocol, Midnight. This new protocol is set to offer new features that mainly comprise advanced security features to improve the privacy and protection of users’ data on the Cardano network. This recent move from IOG is targeted to strengthen its position in the blockchain industry by meeting the growing demand for data…

Binance CEO CZ rejects allegations of market manipulation

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Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao has rejected allegations from the Commodities Futures and Trading Commission complaint, arguing the company “does not trade for profit or ‘manipulate’ the market under any circumstances.” The chief executive shared his first official response to the lawsuit in a March 28 blog post. The CEO argued that while Binance “trades” in a number of situations, this is mainly to convert them “from time-to-time” to cover expenses in fiat or other cryptocurrencies, as its revenues are in crypto. “Personally, I have two accounts at Binance: one…