Bitcoin jumps 7% despite metrics flashing ‘bearish territory’
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Bitcoin jumps 7% despite metrics flashing ‘bearish territory’

Bitcoin has clocked a 7% gain over the past 24 hours despite all of its valuation metrics leaning bearish and US demand recently waning off. “All Bitcoin valuation metrics indicate that we are in bearish territory,” onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant said in a March 11 markets report viewed by Cointelegraph.  Demand falling at “fastest pace” since July CryptoQuant said its…

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Decentralization clashes with illicit activity
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Decentralization clashes with illicit activity

THORChain has been called a money laundering protocol — a label no decentralized finance (DeFi) project wants unless it’s prepared to have regulators breathing down its neck. Its supporters have fended off the criticism by championing decentralization, while its critics point to recent activities that showed some of the protocol’s centralized tendencies. After exploiting Bybit for $1.4 billion, the North…

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Bitcoin jumps 7% despite metrics flashing ‘bearish territory’
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Bitcoin jumps 7% despite metrics flashing ‘bearish territory’

Bitcoin has clocked a 7% gain over the past 24 hours despite all of its valuation metrics leaning bearish and US demand recently waning off. “All Bitcoin valuation metrics indicate that we are in bearish territory,” onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant said in a March 11 markets report viewed by Cointelegraph.  Demand falling at “fastest pace” since July CryptoQuant said its…

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US House follows Senate in passing resolution to kill IRS DeFi broker rule
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US House follows Senate in passing resolution to kill IRS DeFi broker rule

The US House of Representatives has voted in favor of nullifying a rule that would have required decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to report to the Internal Revenue Service. On March 11, the House of Representatives voted 292 for and 132 against a motion to repeal the so-called IRS DeFi broker rule that aimed to expand existing IRS reporting requirements to…

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