Biden’s capital gains tax plan to pull crypto down to earth from the moon?
More taxes may cause short-term volatility, “but long term, you may see more demand for DeFi applications and other collateralized use cases.” There are often multiple causes for an asset’s sharp decline, but Bitcoin’s (BTC) 10% “nosedive,” which took place on April 22, may be blamed on the Biden Administration’s reported plan to tax capital gains at double the current rate on America’s wealthiest. Bitcoin is habitually volatile, so one probably shouldn’t read too much into a double-digit swoon in any given week, but this might be as good a place as any to reflect upon the possible impact....
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