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The latest jobless claims indicate that the US labor market is tight amid rising interest rates as applications rose by 7,000. According to the Labor Department, US weekly jobless claims have climbed to 198,000, representing an increase of 7,000. Although the new figure is slightly higher than the 195,000 expected, it is still generally low in a tight labor market. The Department of Labor also reported a four-week moving average of weekly claims amounting to 198,250. This figure...

The Supreme Court of Denmark ruled that people should be subject to taxation when generating profits by selling bitcoin. The legislation will apply to both investors and miners.  The Court’s Decision Højesteret – the third and final instance in all civil and criminal cases in the Kingdom of Denmark – announced on March 30 that investors who made any profits when selling bitcoin holdings will have to pay taxes.  The magistrates claimed that people buy BTC, hoping to sell it at...

Bitcoin is still the world’s biggest crypto network. However, according to James O’Beirne – one of the asset’s top developers – the blockchain behind BTC could wind up faltering in the coming weeks unless people decide to step up and donate enough money that the remaining developers can get paid for what they do. Bitcoin Developers Need More Funds to Stay Afloat Who would have known that all the developers and other individuals working hard to bring bitcoin to fruition...

While there is a plan to set up a panel in April, the Japanese government is also launching a pilot program for the digital yen in the same month. As the race for digital currencies intensifies, the Japanese government is considering launching a panel to examine the practicality of the digital yen. The Finance Ministry is reportedly considering creating an expert panel in April to examine the feasibility of issuing the digital yen. Since the Bank of Japan began research on CBDC in 2020,...

The Radiant Capital-Binance Launchpool development reflects the growing dynamism in the exchange’s staking platform.  Decentralized, non-custodial lending protocol Radiant Capital (RDNT) has become the 32nd project onboarded to the Binance Launchpool. Reports say users can stake their Binance Coin (BNB) and TrueUSD (TUSD) into separate pools to farm RDNT tokens across 40 days. Farming commences on March 31st with a total Radiant Capital token supply of 1,000,000,000 RDNT. Binance also...

Injective – a  layer 1 blockchain – announced the first-ever Solana rollup launch for Cosmos. According to the official press release shared with CryptoPotato, the “Solana Sealevel Virtual Machine (SVM)” will be deployed within the Cosmos ecosystem with the help of roll-up provider Eclipse. By bringing the Solana development environment to the broader Cosmos ecosystem, the integration is aimed at bolstering growth and user adoption within the two ecosystems Solana-Cosmos...

Bitcoin mining firm Vortex Brands has announced a huge plan for expansion that would see its mining power increase significantly over the next several years. Vortex Brands Wants to Do More Mining To do this, Vortex has said it will put more money into its equipment and buy additional rigs. The goal is to up the amount of BTC extracted from the blockchain given the company believes the price of the world’s number one digital asset is sure to rise steadily in the...

Ethereum’s overall outlook is bullish, but the price is currently facing significant resistance and struggling to surpass it. Considering the recent action, a short-term rejection is possible before the next trend. By Shayan The Daily Chart Ethereum bulls are having trouble pushing the price above the significant resistance region of $1.8K. After reaching this crucial range, Ethereum started consolidating with no clear direction, resulting in dull price action. This...

It is said that the exchange exposed its users to a very significant risk by combining several aspects of its operations that should have been registered and operated separately. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Beaxy cryptocurrency trading platform for operating in the US as an unregistered platform. According to the regulator, Beaxy as well as its associates violated the Securities Act. The charges levied against Beaxy were also extended to its...

Leading crypto exchange, OKX. outlined plans to return frozen digital assets linked to Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto companies, FTX and Alameda Research, following a recent motion filed in the FTX bankruptcy proceedings. The Seychelles-based exchange said it opened an investigation into FTX to determine whether the firm had conducted business on OKX before its demise in November last year. OKX to Transfer $157M to FTX Bankruptcy Estate During the investigation, OKX found...