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At the Digital Asset Investment Forum held in Washington on December 5, a representative from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recommended not waiting for a decision on the Bitcoin ETF.
The options, bought on trading platform LedgerX for nearly $1 million in the days before Bitcoin reached its highest price last year, expire on December 28, 2018. For investors who predicted a $50,000 price for Bitcoin to make any profit, the price of the asset would have to rise by 1,400%.
Accounting firm NODE40, which specializes in calculating digital currency earnings and developer of Bitcoin tax reporting software, expects the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to send out a record number of cryptocurrency-related claims as it believes many investors will decide to declare their losses.
Pump and dump schemes are becoming increasingly common in the cryptocurrency markets. Cybersecurity experts are now learning to predict them in advance.
Morning lows are not final. After a short correction, the decline will resume.
The richest cryptocurrency accounts perked up this week. Recently, 66,452 BTC, worth approximately $245 million, was transferred from an inactive wallet to an unknown address. A few hours later, several more large addresses moved $728 million in BTC.
Most altcoins are trading below support levels.
Initially, in the first weeks of November, the price of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) rose. Investors have begun to accumulate the asset ahead of the upcoming fork and network split, during which holders of the main asset will also receive a new cryptocurrency, BSV. Why did the price drop by 81%?
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