CryptoCodex Making Billions From Bitcoin As The Price Bounces Around

The following is an excerpt from the daily CryptoCodex email newsletter. Sign up now for free hereCryptocurrency prices kept traders on their toes over the weekend, with bitcoin bouncing to well over $40,000 per bitcoin only to give up its gains and drop back under the closely-watched level. Cryptocurrency volatility increased over the weekend as questions swirl around what the draft U. S. Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill, which includes a provision for taxing the crypto industry and market, will mean for crypto adoption and growth. Ethereum has given up some of the gains it racked up over the last week during the last 24 hours but traders should expect big moves ahead of a major software upgrade this week, code-named London, that will cut the supply of new ether tokens entering the market. Ripple's XRP is just about holding onto its huge gains over the last week as investors bet the company will manage to fend off the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against Ripple. However, investor confidence took a knock after one well-known legal expert, James Filan, warned he doesn't expect there to be a settlement anytime soon. The meme-based dogecoin, by far the most volatile coin in the crypto top ten, has trended down over the past week and is looking shaky as Tesla TSLA billionaire Elon Musk's dogecoin-boosting hiatus drags on. Sign up now for the free CryptoCodex—A free, daily newsletter for the crypto-curiousInfrastructure bill fearsOver the last few days, cryptocurrency lobbyists in Washington have been desperately trying to modify a section of the still-unreleased bipartisan infrastructure bill that's currently making its way through U. S. legislature. The cryptocurrency provision in the $550 billion, 2,702-page infrastructure bill, set to pass the Senate this week, extends some tax reporting rules to cryptocurrency brokers that some fear could hobble the burgeoning industry, effectively shuttering U. S. crypto miners. Sign up now for the free CryptoCodex—A free, daily newsletter for the crypto-curiousEarly this morning, it was reported an updated draft of a controversial crypto reporting requirement narrows the definition of "broker" for the purposes of crypto tax collection, but stops short of specifying that only companies that provide services for customers qualify, according to Coindesk, which obtained a copy. It was later posted online. On Sunday, Ron Wyden, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, took to Twitter to criticize language used in the draft bill."Americans avoiding paying the taxes they owe through cryptocurrency is a real problem that deserves a real solution," he said, but what he called the "Republican provision" "isn’t close to being that solution.""It’s an attempt to apply brick and mortar rules to the internet and fails to understand how the technology works," he said.


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