The IRS Should Offer a Free Tax Reporting Tool to DeFi Users

Jun 29, 2020 at 12:54 UTCUpdated Jun 29, 2020 at 13:33 UTC(Sundry Photography/Shutterstock)A German shareholder body has accused “Big Four” auditor Ernst & Young (EY) of failing to spot a $2.1 billion black hole in Wirecard’s books soon enough. Shareholders’ association SdK filed criminal damages against EY Friday for not flagging Wirecard’s accounting practices earlier,…

Dec 15, 2019 at 15:00 UTCUpdated Dec 15, 2019 at 14:42 UTCGalen Danziger, MouseBelt CTOThis post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Galen Danziger is the chief technology officer at the MouseBelt Blockchain Accelerator.With startups and Fortune…

Imran Khan. (Credit: Volt Capital)Chicago’s Trading Firms Look to DeFi With New ‘Alliance’Some of the most experienced trading firms in Chicago are joining forces to promote decentralized finance (DeFi) during the coronavirus recession.TD Ameritrade, Cumberland, CMT Digital, DV Trading and Jump Trading, plus venture capital firm Volt Capital and the DeFi startup Compound, all joined…

Markets Daily Crypto RoundupWith altcoins stabilizing near recent all-time-highs and a look at what went wrong with Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Listen on:

How do you measure the influence of Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.)?When he missed some work recently, as he stood in as Speaker, the crypto bills he'd been relentlessly herding through the U.S. House of Representatives totally stalled.This profile is part of CoinDesk's Most Influential 2023. For the full list, click here.Now, the tenacious congressman, back

Aug 21, 2020 at 13:02 UTCUpdated Aug 21, 2020 at 13:27 UTCNew digital markets might be the place where capitalism is getting revived. ("Portraits at the Stock Exchange" by Edgar Degas/Metropolitan Museum of Art, modified by CoinDesk.) First Mover: Wacky Bitcoin-to-DeFi Crypto Markets Might Be New Home of CapitalismPrice PointBitcoin was slightly lower early Friday,…

Aug 31, 2020 at 17:53 UTCUpdated Aug 31, 2020 at 18:29 UTCCFTC logo (Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock)TeraExchange LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tera Group Inc., was reinstated as a swap execution facility through a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) order on Monday.  According to the press release posted on the CFTC website, TeraExchange was deemed…

May 22, 2020 at 14:30 UTCBitcoin Pizza Day10 Years After Laszlo Hanyecz Bought Pizza With 10K Bitcoin, He Has No RegretsIf you owned a share of an experimental technology, how much of it would you give up to help that technology grow? Startup founders do this calculus whenever they raise capital. Ten years ago today,…

PALM BEACH, FL. — During his first stint in the White House Donald Trump was no fan of cryptocurrencies; he once tweeted they were "based on thin air." He later sold millions of dollars worth of NFTs. This week, he rebranded himself as crypto's candidate of choice."If you’re in favor of crypto you’re gonna vote