The world’s first widely-adopted cryptocurrency. With Bitcoin, people can securely and directly send each other digital money on the internet. Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonymous person or team who outlined the technology in a 2008 white paper. It’s an appealingly simple concept: bitcoin is digital money that allows for secure peer-to-peer transactions on
Exchange-traded funds — better known as an ETFs — are similar in many ways to mutual funds. They generally track the price of an asset (like gold) or basket of assets (like the S&P 500). And as their name suggests, they trade on exchanges and can be bought and sold like stock via a traditional brokerage
Short for decentralized finance, DeFi is an umbrella term for peer-to-peer financial services on public blockchains, primarily Ethereum DeFi (or “decentralized finance”) is an umbrella term for financial services on public blockchains, primarily Ethereum. you can do most of the things that banks support — earn interest, borrow, lend, buy insurance, trade derivatives, trade assets, and
Even though the legality of crypto in India is still a matter of debate, new crypto tax laws are already affecting businesses and individuals. India’s current fiscal year ending in March marks the first financial year where India, the country housing the largest percentage of crypto users in the world, is finally providing clarity on crypto
Tax experts weigh in on how the IRS views crypto trading profits, gifts, mining rewards and more. Tax filing day may be months away, on April 18, 2023, to be exact. But, if you’ve bought, sold, traded, earned or lost cryptocurrency this year, now is the time to prepare. This piece is part of Coindatacap.com Tax
Definition Technically, “Crypto Tokens” is just another word for “cryptocurrency” or “crypto asset.” But increasingly it has taken on a couple of more specific meanings depending on context. The first is to describe all cryptocurrencies besides Bitcoin and Ethereum (even though they are technically also tokens). The second is to describe certain digital assets that
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are powered by a technology called the blockchain. At its most basic, a blockchain is a list of transactions that anyone can view and verify. The Bitcoin blockchain, for example, contains a record of every time someone sent or received bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology that powers them make it