We don’t tax houses while they’re under construction, and we shouldn’t impose taxes on cryptocurrency while it’s staked. 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…

A federal judge has temporarily halted a proposed deal between Voyager and Binance.US in order to give the government more time to pursue appeals that challenge the deal. Voyager Digital’s $1 billion sale to Binance.US has been temporarily halted by a federal judge after a request by the United States government for an emergency stay….

Within the 74-page complaint, the CFTC has labeled Ether, Binance USD, Tether and Litecoin as commodities along with Bitcoin, and made a few other startling claims. The surprise lawsuit from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) against crypto exchange Binance sent shock waves across the markets today. In addition to allegations of market manipulation and a lack…

Coinbase explained that it is now “more important than ever” to build an inflation-tracking stablecoin that negates poor monetary policy decisions of central banks. Crypto exchange Coinbase sees inflation-pegged “flatcoins” as one of four “critical” innovations that should be built on its recently launched layer-2 network Base. The other three include an on-chain reputation system,…

The deal was announced on March 26 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). North Carolina-based First Citizens Bank is set to acquire all deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bank, according to a statement from the Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Under a March 26 purchase and assumption agreement, 17 former branches of Silicon Valley…

BTC price action is copying historical patterns to deliver a classic Bitcoin bull market comeback, says Rekt Capital. Bitcoin has a matter of days to go before beginning a new macro uptrend, the latest analysis says. In his latest tweet, popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital flagged a key monthly close in the making for BTC/USD….