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Cryptocurrencies fall on US tax reporting requirement

By Mensholong Lepcha

02:46, 16 November 2021

Bitcoin concept illustration
Most of the top 10 cryptocurrencies fell on Tuesday – Photo: Shutterstock

All top 10 cryptocurrencies barring stable coins fell in early Asia trade on Tuesday after US President Joe Biden signed a $1trn infrastructure bill containing a cryptocurrency tax reporting requirement.

The infrastructure bill includes a provision for brokers to report information on traders transacting an amount of over $10,000 to the Internal Revenue Services (IRS).

The cryptocurrency industry is worried about how the bill defines a “broker”, with many fearing that the open-ended term could include miners and node operators among others.

BTC and ETH down

“These expanded definitions aimed to increase transparency for the IRS, but ultimately run the risk of requiring network actors like node operators to report identifying information for crypto transactions that they have no way of gathering,” said Kollen Post for cryptocurrency research firm The Block.

On Tuesday, Bitcoin (BTC) fell 5.8% to $61,866.74, while Ether (ETH) lost 6.9% to $4,375.76. Both the cryptocurrencies took their seven-day losses over 8%.

ETH/USD

3,384.25 Price
-0.960% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0616%
Short position overnight fee 0.0137%
Overnight fee time 22:00 (UTC)
Spread 6.00

BTC/USD

98,135.85 Price
+0.010% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0616%
Short position overnight fee 0.0137%
Overnight fee time 22:00 (UTC)
Spread 106.00

XRP/USD

1.43 Price
-4.180% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0616%
Short position overnight fee 0.0137%
Overnight fee time 22:00 (UTC)
Spread 0.01168

DOGE/USD

0.43 Price
-2.060% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0616%
Short position overnight fee 0.0137%
Overnight fee time 22:00 (UTC)
Spread 0.0012872

Alt coin Polkadot (DOT) was the biggest loser among the top 10 cryptocurrencies, down 9.5% to $42.47.

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DOT top loser

Polkadot has fallen over 19% in the past one week and is about 21% away from its all-time high on $54.98 hit less than two weeks ago.

Blockchain platforms Solana’s SOL and Cardano’s ADA fell over 4.5% each to $230.43 and $1.95, respectively, in early Asia trade on Tuesday.

Meme coins Shiba Inu (SHIB) slipped 2.9% to $0.0000509, while rival Dogecoin (DOGE) lost 4.8% to $0.2499.

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Markets in this article

BTC/USD
Bitcoin / USD
98135.85 USD
7.7 +0.010%
ADA/USD
Cardano / USD
1.04763 USD
-0.02935 -2.710%
ADA/USD
Cardano / USD
1.04763 USD
-0.02935 -2.710%
ADA/USD
Cardano / USD
1.04763 USD
-0.02935 -2.710%
DOGE/USD
DogeCoin / USD
0.4269265 USD
-0.0089912 -2.060%

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