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Amid the growing opposition against the new cryptocurrency tax regime in South Korea, finance minister Hong Nam-ki confirmed that the government will start taxing capital gains from crypto trading starting next year.“It’s inevitable, we will need to impose taxes on gains from trading of virtual assets,” the minister said when asked
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South Korea’s “big four” crypto exchanges — Bithumb, Korbit, Upbit and Coinone — are showing a marked cooling off in Bitcoin (BTC) enthusiasm.Meanwhile, altcoins are now accounting for the highest 24-hour trading volume according to data from multiple market aggregators.Apart from XRP, which is often popular among crypto traders in
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South Korean prosecutors have finally sold a Bitcoin (BTC) haul they confiscated from a criminal in 2017 and it’s worth $10.5 million more than it was at the time of the arrest. The cash has reportedly been deposited in the coffers of the country’s national treasury.According to reports coming out
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The volume of transactions in the South Korean digital currency market briefly exceeded the daily average transaction amount of the country’s stock market on Sunday.According to data from CoinMarketCap, the combined 24-hour volume of major South Korea-based crypto exchanges UPbit, Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit was more than $14.6 billion on
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South African crypto firms are threatening to move abroad if local lawmakers are unable to provide regulatory clarity to its domestic digital asset industry.Speaking to Bloomberg, Sean Sanders, the CEO of local crypto investment platform Revix — who plan to relocate their head office to the United Kingdom, described the
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Data published by statistics firm Statista has revealed Nigeria is the leading country per capita for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency adoption, with nearly one in three survey respondents indicating they used or owned crypto assets in 2020.According to the survey, the pre-existing prevalence of mobile phone based peer-to-peer payments has led
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Authorities in South Africa appear to be paying closer attention to the cryptocurrency space in 2021 in the wake of a major Bitcoin (BTC) Ponzi scheme and increased trading activity. As a result, the South African Financial Sector Conduct Authority has called for tighter controls of the crypto space following
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South Korean retail investors pointed to the U.S. GameStop saga to pressure local regulators to extend the country’s ban on short-selling stocks. They succeeded, at least for now. Then, GameStop happened. In January, retail investors in the U.S. banded together on Reddit to bet in favor of stocks (like that of American
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The South African Revenue Service is likely "ensnaring" non-compliant taxpayers, a tax consultancy said in a news report. Source
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“At the point something becomes a Ponzi scheme, we have lost our jurisdiction,” a regulator told Bloomberg. Source
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