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All transactions above $10,000 now have to be reported to the IRS for documentation and taxation purposes. This comes right after a major market-wide correction which saw the price of bitcoin tumbling down to $30K. IRS Doubles Down The IRS will be expanded with an $80B package aiming to increase their manpower and resources. Individuals and businesses dealing in cryptocurrency will be subject to a higher level of scrutiny, given that the Treasury believes cryptocurrency...

The Australian Financial Services Minister – Jane Hume – warned cryptocurrency investors to beware of the risks in the market. She sounded a note of caution to the public after the prices of most digital assets collapsed significantly yesterday. However, Hume outlined their future importance. ‘They Are Volatile And High-Risk Assets’ Following the recent bloodbath, many of the cryptocurrencies are now far away from their highs. For example, Bitcoin itself lost a major chunk of...

Electric car company Fisker Inc. is taking a page out of Tesla’s book and is giving a big thumbs down to the idea of bitcoin payments, claiming it will not be accepting the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency by market cap anytime soon for goods and services. Fisker Says “No” To BTC Tesla announced a few weeks ago that the company would be accepting bitcoin for items it produced. Customers could literally walk into a dealership then choose the car they liked...

Elon Musk and Tesla have been in the news a lot as of late, primarily for their roles in the bitcoin community. Just a few days ago, it was widely speculated that Elon Musk was potentially looking into selling all his bitcoins and that he may part ways with his stash. However, while nothing can be said for his personal crypto collection, Musk has assured his social media followers and crypto fans everywhere that Tesla has not parted with any of its digital assets. Elon...

Bitcoin and the rest of the market tanked yesterday. Red was all over the place with double-digit drops across all charts. In BTC’s case, this nosedive came as a continuation of larger retracement that started after the all-time high in April at $65,000. However, how does this correction compare to others? Mid-2021 Correction: What Happened? Before heading into the most recent price developments, it’s worth exploring what transpired before the market got there. In short,...

Things will soon go back to normal. Even after going to lows of $688.43 in the last 24 hours, Chia Coin bounced back to an uptrend and was trading at $1,019.2 at the time of writing.The price of the newly launched Chia coin (XCH) has been experiencing a bearish trend in the last couple of days, dipping to below $1000 in the last 24 hours. On May 17, 2021, the coin was trading at around $1300 but began a dip that saw it reach a low of $688.43 today, May 20, 2021. However, this is not because...

According to Aya Kantorovich, head of institutional sales for FalconX, the over 30% spike in the price of Bitcoin within a few hours is a result of asset managers buying the current Bitcoin dip.Trading firms have revealed that hedge funds and asset managers have once again taken the opportunity of the current market pullback, buying the current Bitcoin dip. It is no secret that Bitcoin’s wild and volatile swings do come with a buying opportunity for investors and newbies in the crypto space....

Bitcoin’s 2021 bull cycle was paused, not entirely stopped, and will resume, opined the founder of SkyBridge Capital – Anthony Scaramucci. In a new interview, the former White House Communications Director addressed the recent environmental issues and called Bitcoin a fully robust monetary network. Yesterday’s market crash that saw bitcoin sliding by more than $10,000 in minutes sent shockwaves among investors and commentators rushing to offer their opinion on the matter. The...

Scott Minerd – Global Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of Guggenheim Partners – compared the recent crypto market collapse to the ”Tulipmania’ in the 17th century. His current stance came somewhat unexpectedly since not long ago, he predicted a price of $600,000 for Bitcoin. Crypto Is a ‘Tulipmania’ The recent crypto market crash created an opportunity for numerous investors and influential people to express their predictions about the current state and future price of...

Experts believe that the crypto market crash is bad for Coinbase business and might deter potential customers.Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) share prices took a nose-dive on Wednesday. In what was generally a bad day for crypto, the crypto exchange’s stock was down 6% to $219.16 per share as markets opened. This was 8% less than its April 14 $250 market debut reference price.Wednesday’s total cryptocurrency market value was down a fourth at $1.57T in a period of just 24 hours. Top...