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Court victory precedent: IRS may not tax staking rewards until sold

A Nashville couple’s lawsuit over taxes they paid on unclaimed and unsold Tezos staking rewards is coming to an end with the Internal Revenue Service

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‘Philly is ready’ for CityCoins says city council

Philadelphia is on the cusp of following in the footsteps of Miami, Austin and New York City by partnering with CityCoins to develop a crypto

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Aussie billionaire sues Facebook over crypto scams with AG’s consent

Australian billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest is taking Facebook to court over scammy cryptocurrency ads that he alleges used his name to defraud victims. The Fortescue

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UK tax agency cracks down on rules around DeFi lending and staking

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the U.K.’s tax agency, on Wednesday, has released a controversial set of guidance that could affect innovation in Decentralized

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Bitcoin, Ether and NFTs will ‘never become legal tender’ in India, says Finance Secretary

T.V. Somanathan, the finance secretary for the Indian government, is reportedly pushing back against the narrative that cryptocurrencies will be widely accepted in the country

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Vale Diem: How Facebook’s ambitious stablecoin project came to an end

On Jan. 31, Meta, formerly known as Facebook, announced that it was pulling from its stablecoin project, Diem, formerly known as Libra. Intellectual property and

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Progressive group adopts Bitcoin as ING and PayPal block donations

Progressive International, a global organization supporting progressive left-wing activists and organizers, is moving into cryptocurrencies in response to getting de-banked by major payment and banking

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Major crypto exchanges eye Asian market amid growing regulatory clarity

Major crypto exchanges originating from Asia as well as from the West have shown an increasing interest in the Asia-Pacific region.  Coinbase launched in Japan

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FTX acquires Japan’s FCA-licensed crypto exchange Liquid

American billionaire and CEO of crypto exchange FTX Sam Bankman-Fried announced that his company acquired Japanese crypto firm Liquid Group and its subsidiaries.  As a

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SEC’s proposed rule on exchanges could threaten DeFi, says Crypto Mom

Hester Peirce, a commissioner for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission known by many in the space as Crypto Mom, is warning that a proposed