Ahead of the highly anticipated Bitcoin 2024 Nashville event, the crypto community is buzzing with excitement over speculations that tech mogul Elon Musk might share a stage with Donald Trump at the venue, unannounced.  Musk’s recent arrival in Tennessee on July 21 has further intensified the rumors. The intrigue deepened after Musk updated his profile

Crypto or virtual digital assets remained conspicuously absent from the speech of Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday during the annual budget 2024-25 announcement. In her recent budget announcement for 2024-2025, India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chose to maintain the current crypto tax regulations. This decision, made on Tuesday, leaves the tax-deducted-at-source (TDS) rate

Repayments to the customers of Mt. Gox are set to begin after a decade-long court process.  Tokyo-based Mt. Gox once processed more than 70% of all BTC transactions at its peak before collapsing in 2014 after the loss of 950,000 BTC. Bitcoin was worth just $600 at the time. About 20,658 customers will receive a

As the end of July nears, analysts look ahead to August, a historically volatile month made more interesting this year by the US presidential election.  The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes in August 2023 lost 1.6% and 2.1%, respectively. The year prior, the S&P 500 lost just under 1% and the Nasdaq Composite slid

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Last month, the US Treasury Department finalized new tax rules for the crypto industry. We should embrace them. Crypto users, attracted to the digital asset space because of its libertarian values and independence from the traditional financial system, may chafe at this larger IRS crackdown as burdensome or troubling. However, the time for scams and

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Sygnum Bank said crypto spot and derivatives trading surged in the first half, propelling it to its first half-yearly profit. The Swiss lender plans to expand into the European Union and Hong Kong in the coming months. 00:34 Market Maker KeyRock Secures Swiss Anti-Money Laundering Clearance 08:15 Zuckerberg Says Meta Has ‘Exciting Roadmap’ With Threads

The Nasdaq and S&P 500 on Wednesday each suffered their worst declines since late 2022, but the price of bitcoin (BTC) mostly held up, remaining around the $66,000 level where it was a day earlier. The broad-market crypto benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index was also flat over the past 24 hours, with Solana’s SOL and Ripple’s

We’re headed to the Bitcoin Nashville conference this week and looking forward to a lot of deep discussions about building on the original blockchain – as well as hearing what former President Donald Trump has to say . (We understand the security will be quite tight.) I’ll be moderating a panel at a side event