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OCC Seeking to Remove Structural Barriers to Financial Inclusion By Cointelegraph



OCC Seeking to Remove Structural Barriers to Financial Inclusion

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC, launched a project aimed to improve financial inclusion of underserved populations.

Called REACh, which stands for Roundtable for Economic Access and Change, will bring together banking industry leaders and national civil rights, business and technology organizations to identify and reduce barriers and increase access to capital and credit. The group met on July 10 to start looking for projects the group will tackle.

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Top 10 Cryptos Outperforming Bitcoin By Cointelegraph



New ‘Altseason’ Visualized: Top 10 Cryptos Outperforming Bitcoin

Alternative cryptocurrencies, or altcoins, have started to record large gains across the board. Some small-cap coins have seen triple-digit percentage gains in recent weeks. But several larger-cap cryptocurrencies have also been posting serious gains such as VeChain (VET), Stellar (XLM), (ADA) and Chainlink (LINK).

In the past week, VET, XLM, ADA, ALGO, LINK, BSV, ATOM, , CRO and ETC outperformed the rest of the market including , which gained just 1.13% during the period.

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Data Suggests Bitcoin Price Will Rise as Investor Demographics Shift By Cointelegraph



Data Suggests Bitcoin Price Will Rise as Investor Demographics Shift

(BTC) has been trading sideways for around a month now and is being outperformed by several other altcoins like Ether (ETH) and Chainlink (LINK). The cryptocurrency also hit the lowest levels of volatility since November 2018.

Moreover, Bitcoin’s trading volume in it’s USDT and USD pairs has decreased by 56% and 44%, while global crypto trading volumes in June are down by 49.3% as well, according to CryptoCompare.

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Leaked Documents Suggest Former Wirecard Exec Was Linked to Secret Russian Gov Operations By Cointelegraph



Leaked Documents Suggest Former Wirecard Exec Was Linked to Secret Russian Gov Operations

Wirecard’s recently-prosecuted former Chief Operations Officer, Jan Marsalek, may have had ties to Russian intelligence services. He also allegedly held secret documents about the use of a Russian chemical weapon in the U.K.

According to the Financial Times, the former Wirecard executive bragged of his intelligence services’ ties in an effort to further integrate with London traders.

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Digital Is the Cash By Cointelegraph



Book Review: Digital Is the Cash

“Understanding the Past, Present & Future of Finance in One Read,” boasts the subtitle of Digital is the Cash by Nathaniel Luz. Whether the book achieves this lofty aim is likely to depend on the readers feelings towards (DASH) being the future of finance.

You see, Luz is an ambassador for Dash Africa, and strongly believes that the cryptocurrency represents the future of money. His story is actually more interesting than that, as I discovered when I spoke to him, but potential readers should be warned that parts of this book read more like a press release.

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DLT Voting Would Likely Benefit Democrats: UNSW Professor By Cointelegraph



DLT Voting Would Likely Benefit Democrats: UNSW Professor

Richard Holden, an economics professor at the University of New South Wales Business School, says using distributed ledger technology could allay Republican concerns over mail-in voter fraud — but would likely benefit the Democratic Party.

Holden spoke at the Unitize conference on July 9 on The Law and Economics of Blockchain. The university professor said distributed ledger technology (DLT) has the potential to increase voter turnout and have a “meaningful effect” on the outcome of U.S. elections — but there are still issues around the overall integrity of the process.

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Bad Day for Stocks Sends Bitcoin Price Below Key $9.3K Support By Cointelegraph



Bad Day for Stocks Sends Bitcoin Price Below Key $9.3K Support

Today (BTC) price abruptly dropped 2.93% to $9,160 before traders stepped in to push the price back to the $9,200 level.

The mild correction occurred as the Dow pulled back 370 points and the and Nasdaq also saw small losses. Gold also pulled back 0.92% but still is only $17 away from its recent high at $1,818.

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Malaysian Regulator’s Shariah Advisory Council Allows Digital Asset Trading By Cointelegraph



Malaysian Regulator’s Shariah Advisory Council Allows Digital Asset Trading

In a landmark announcement, Securities Commission Malaysia’s Shariah Advisory Council declared that digital assets trading was permissible.

The Malaysian Shariah Advisory Council is the authority that oversees the implementation of Islamic laws in the operation of Islamic Financial Institutions.

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Former Facebook Counsel Joins Coinbase as Chief Legal Officer By Cointelegraph



Former Facebook Counsel Joins Coinbase as Chief Legal Officer

Paul Grewal, a former US magistrate judge in California and Deputy General Counsel for Facebook (NASDAQ:), is joining crypto exchange Coinbase’s legal team.

In a July 8 announcement on the Coinbase blog, the crypto exchange said the addition of Grewal will help “pave the way for the next phase of crypto awareness and adoption.” The new Chief Legal Officer will also lead the legal team as Coinbase partners with financial services regulators, and develops and releases new products and services.

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Legal Implications of Secondary SAFT Sales, Part 2 By Cointelegraph



Legal Implications of Secondary SAFT Sales, Part 2

The United States Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department have published minimal guidance on the tax treatment of virtual currency and no guidance on Simple Agreement for Future Tokens or secondary forward contracts on SAFTs. Accordingly, it is difficult to determine the appropriate U.S. federal income tax treatment of a secondary forward contract on a SAFT.

In 2014, the IRS issued Notice 2014-21 and updated it with FAQs that provided that convertible virtual currency is treated as “property and general tax principles applicable to property transactions apply to transactions using virtual currency.” Thus, a corporation’s issuance of such virtual currency tokens is taxable for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

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