💸 Tax Relief! MetaMask Clears Air on Crypto Transactions

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🌪️ Tornado Cash Token (TORN) Rises 10% after Attacker’s Proposal to Undo Attack

💰 Vivek Ramaswamy Accepts Bitcoin for 2024 Election Campaign

💸 Tax Relief! MetaMask Clears Air on Crypto Transactions

🚫 Biden vs. Crypto Traders: No Deal for Tax-Loss Harvesting

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🌪️ Tornado Cash Token (TORN) Rises 10% after Attacker’s Proposal to Undo Attack

Tornado Cash's TORN token is making headlines as it rises 📈 by 10% in the wake of an intriguing proposal to revert the DAO's governance. The offer, believed to be made by an attacker linked to recent malicious changes, promises to reverse these alterations. Despite the controversies, this unexpected development has boosted TORN's market value. All eyes 👀 are on May 26, the voting deadline, to see if this proposal sails through.

💰 Vivek Ramaswamy Accepts Bitcoin for 2024 Election Campaign

Second to follow in the 2024 US presidential race, Vivek Ramaswamy embraces Bitcoin (BTC) for campaign donations. In a bold step at Bitcoin 2023, Miami, he proposes making the 2024 election a referendum on fiat currency💵. With a QR code leading to various crypto payment options, and a bonus NFT for donors, Ramaswamy is dialing up his digital campaign game.

💸 Tax Relief! MetaMask Clears Air on Crypto Transactions

In a moment of relief for cryptocurrency users, ConsenSys, the parent company of MetaMask, clarifies they do not impose taxes on cryptocurrency transactions. Amidst swirling rumors and misunderstandings, MetaMask confirms that they only levy sales tax on specific paid services, not on crypto transactions. This was in response to confusion from a recent update to their terms of service, which caused a stir in the community.

🚫 Biden vs. Crypto Traders: No Deal for Tax-Loss Harvesting

During recent G7 talks, US President Joe Biden opposed a debt ceiling agreement favoring crypto traders' tax-loss harvesting strategy, emphasizing the potential risk to food aid for 1 million Americans.

📚 Market analysis of the day

A closer look at Bitcoin's recent correction reveals interesting insights. The Net Unrealized Profit/Loss (NUPL) suggests that many investors have sold off their Bitcoin for profits. Short-term Holder SOPR reveals that those who have held Bitcoin for less than a year began offloading since March 17, 2023, leading to bearish volatility 🐻. However, with the SOPR Ratio still showing potential for a bullish correction, and the American economic landscape possibly influencing a rise to a predicted $33.5K price point, there might be more to the Bitcoin story.

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💡 What Is BRC-21?

The BRC-21 standard is making waves! Interlay Labs' recent proposal allows deployment of decentralized stablecoins on the Lightning Network, with no need for third-party trust. The standard, unlike BRC-20, necessitates initial asset keys like ETH or DOT, enabling minting of digital assets on Bitcoin's network. Check out their new document for more!

📊 Use cases of BRC-21

The BRC-21 standard allows the representation of ETH, DOT, SOL, and other cryptos on Bitcoin, with its most promising application being the deployment of decentralized stablecoins on Lightning Network or similar payment channels.⚡️ This new approach circumvents the complex minting, redemption, and liquidation processes required by decentralized stablecoins like MakerDAO, Liquity, or RAI, which are unfeasible on Bitcoin due to its lack of programmability.