Facebook’s wounded Libra Association formally voted itself into existence on October 14, electing a board and choosing officers. The ceremony was overshadowed by the loss of seven original members including Mastercard and Visa.
Bittax VP Or Lokay Cohen at the Ethereal conference in Tel Aviv on September 15, 2019 (photo by Molly Jane Zuckerman for Modern Consensus).How the IRS is cracking down on crypto taxes: A conversation with Bittax’s Or Lokay Cohen
At this weekend’s Ethereal Summit, Modern Consensus delved into the murky waters of cryptocurrency taxation and its various pitfalls
Or Lokay Cohen has been at crypto tax calculation service Bittax since 2016, which means that she may know more about how to file crypto taxes than any other person alive. Lokay Cohen told Modern Consensus that she came to the Ethereal conference in Tel Aviv on September 15 to meet other like-minded crypto people, as she was toying with the idea of using Ethereum-based smart contracts to pay your taxes automatically for the IRS.
The libra logo on a cellphone sitting on some coins. What else do you need to see? (via Shutterstock)Facebook stands firm on 2020 Libra cryptocurrency launch
Despite heavy resistance, the head of the Libra Association said the group is ‘firmly maintaining’ plans to take its stablecoin live as early as June
Facebook’s cryptocurrency will launch as early as June 2020, Libra Association head Bertrand Perez told a French newspaper on September 13.
Judge: Coinbase Bitcoin Cash launch incompetent, not fraudulent
Coinbase’s decision to halt trading less than three minutes after the BCH launch may have been negligent
A California judge gave Brian Armstrong’s cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase three quarters of a win Tuesday, throwing out fraud and unfair competition allegations.
