Bitcoin Manages to Evade the Crypto Market Crash
Bitcoin managed to escape much of the downward drift that has afflicted most cryptocurrencies today. In the most recent 24-hour period, bitcoin’s price fell 2.82 percentage points to $2,367, according to coinmarketcap.com. Only 10th ranked BitConnect, with $387.854 in market capitalization, fared better than bitcoin in the 24-hour period, only dropping 0.57 points. Ethereum, by contrast, lost 10.2 points and continues its downward trend. Ripple, the number three cryptocurrency, lost 14.3 points. Bitcoin Extends Market Dominance. Bitcoin, with a market cap of $38.829 billion, extended its....
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Russia could turn to cryptocurrency if it is banned from the SWIFT payments system. Analysts have warned that if Russia is able to use crypto to evade sanctions, “political support in the U.S. for crypto will fall and regulatory risk will rise.”
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Amid growing talk of banning Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system after its invasion of Ukraine, some analysts have warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin could turn to cryptocurrency to evade sanctions.
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury does not see that cryptocurrency could be used in a large-scale way to evade sanctions. “Its share as a medium for illicit finance is not anywhere as large as just using cash,” a senior Treasury official noted.
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Nellie Liang, Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance, talked about the potential use of cryptocurrency as a tool to evade sanctions for Russia Friday in an interview with Reuters.
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The recent crash of the UST stablecoin had rocked the market to its core. This depegging was credited for most of the market crash and the incredibly low momentum that has trailed most digital assets in the space since then. Most other stablecoins, although challenged, had been able to maintain their peg. That is, all […]