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Spain’s Ministry of the Treasury has identified 15,000 cryptocurrency investors it will monitor to prevent tax evasion and money laundering, according to local media reports. The ministry has vowed to ensure that the investors pay taxes on capital gains from digital currency transactions and that they declare any other benefits accrued from trading. Also Read: KPMG: Institutional Investment Key to Cryptoassets Growth  ‘Opaque’ Ownership According to Spanish daily newspaper El Pais, the country’s tax agency — the Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria (AEAT) — plans to monitor “the fiscal incidence of…

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North Korea plans to host an international summit of experts from the cryptocurrency industry. The Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference will be held in April of next year at a science and technology center in the national capital. Also read: Crypto Detectives Project Rates and Investigates Suspicious ICOs Delegates to Pay €3,300 to Attend the Forum Alejandro Cao de Benós, a special delegate for the North Korean government’s Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, announced the upcoming event in a tweet this week. According to the conference’s official website, the…

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An online platform created in Russia has set a noble goal of making the cryptocurrency industry safer for investors. The project investigates initial coin offerings (ICOs) that have raised suspicions and performs the due diligence for free. A report about each ICO is then published containing а summary of the findings and a conclusion about the project’s nature. Also read: Crypto Experts From Sanctioned Countries to Receive Training in Crimea Coin Offerings Under Surveillance The Crypto Detectives portal examines the whitepaper and website of a project that’s been included in…

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Bitcoin’s latest price plunge has coincided with fresh scrutiny of stablecoin Tether and exchange Bitfinex almost a year after both received subpoenas from US authorities. DoJ ‘Homing In’ On Tether, Bitfinex As Bloomberg reports November 20 citing “three people familiar with the matter,” Tether and Bitfinex, which share a CEO, are under suspicion of market manipulation. While no formal accusations have yet been made, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) is investigating the pair’s potential role in fuelling Bitcoin’s all-time price highs of $20,000 in December 2017. According to the…

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Cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been glued to the price charts over the last 48 hours as digital assets across the entire crypto-economy have plunged significantly. Since our last markets update two days ago, the digital currency ecosystem has lost over $30 billion and the overall market capitalization of all 2,000+ coins now sits at around $159 billion.      Also read: Cryptocurrency ATM Growth Spikes Exponentially to 4,000 Machines Worldwide The Sell-Off and Shakeup Markets have been bloody over the last few days with nearly every digital asset reaching its lowest price…

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Sergejs (@BalanceAM) from Latvia is a Popular Investor who likes to keep his Risk Score low. He has been with eToro since late 2017, and if you check out his stats, you’ll see he says he has 8 years of trading experience. His strategy involves rotating his portfolio at the end of each quarter, and he often uses short positions as a diversification tool. We asked him a few questions about his trading habits on eToro. Disclaimer: This is a guest article submitted by eToro. 65% of retail investor accounts…

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On Nov. 18, a few days after the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fork, Openbazaar developer Chris Pacia announced the launch of Bchd, a full node implementation of the BCH chain written in Golang. Pacia and contributors have detailed that it’s been over two months since the Bchd client was forked from Btcd reference code and so far the new library has seen a “large amount of development.” Also Read: Another ‘Satoshi Message’ Attempts to Sway Public Opinion, But Fails The Bitcoin Cash Bchd Library   The Bitcoin Cash community has been introduced…

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Bitcoin price (BTC/USD) had a dire week, breaking down last Wednesday from its 2018 consolidation reaching weekly lows of $5200.  This week started no better with new lows being found after a further selloff at around $5050. Here we take a look at some of the immediate levels trades and investors alike worth paying attention to. Bitcoin Price: Daily Chart Bitcoin‘s resilience sustaining prices around $5500, gave up on Monday as the wider trading environment kicked off the week, with markets pushing BTC price 00 down to test $5000. As…

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On Friday, Nov. 16, the developers behind the full node projects Bcoin and Bcash announced an application that allows users to complete cross-chain atomic swaps between both the BCH and BTC chains. The Bcoin programmers have also released a guide, videos and code for beginners and experts who want to swap BTC for BCH in a decentralized fashion. Also read: Markets Update: Traders Expect Major BCH Action When Exchanges Open BCH and BTC Cross-Chain Swaps With No Middlemen The Bcoin developers recently released an application for users who want to…

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