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Be prepared for some hassles if you're paying your taxes and you've made or sold any cryptocurrency.

Rolando Brison, the head of the United People's Party and a member of St. Maarten's Parliament, stated on Saturday that he is the first elected official to request that his full salary be paid in bitcoin cash. Brison believes that if his country continues to embrace blockchain technology and cryptocurrency solutions, St. Maarten can become the 'Crypto Capital of the Caribbean.'

Nonfungible Tidbits: The week ending March 18th's bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and NFT news.

Thousands of lines of code are written in the shadows of the internet by anonymous programmers whose names are unknown to the authorities.

A closer look at liquidity pools, automated market makers, yield farming, and other DEX-related topics. This is the third installment of a three-part series on understanding DeFi.

Bitcoin supporters have been known to downplay the expenses, while opponents have been known to discount the benefits—however, it is critical to examine both the costs and the benefits.

The blockchain is coming for all of us.

The Turkish lira had lost 44 percent of its value versus the dollar in one year before handing over the unenviable distinction of the world's worst-performing currency to the Russian ruble. Its purchasing power at home has also dwindled: depending on whether you believe official figures or private assessments, inflation in Turkey ranges from 54% to 124%. So, how did the residents react? For one thing, the tech-savvy classes opted for cryptocurrency.

'[A]ny electronic-cash model that necessitates regular human oversight will eventually be captured by the same legal regimes that govern the legacy financial system, because the presence of human actors (who, of course, can be fined, jailed, or forced into plea bargains) represents a vulnerability that government actors can and will exploit to assert control. The one-sentence explanation for bitcoin's success is that it solves this challenge in what appears to be the only way possible: by removing human decision makers entirely from the system.'

Despite receiving only 2% of the total worldwide value of all cryptocurrencies, their rapid growth will revolutionize financing in an increasingly digital and urban Sub-Saharan Africa.