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Strategy's business model has come under a barrage of harsh criticism from experts. Well-known analyst Charles Edwards openly called Michael Saylor's strategy a "ticking time bomb" that fully depends on the continuous growth of Bitcoin's price and risks exploding during a prolonged market decline.

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The Ethereum Foundation has cut roughly 20% of its workforce and slashed its budget by roughly 40% as part of a broad reorganization, even as the blockchain it helps steward records its highest-ever levels of user activity and attracts deeper participation from major financial institutions.

 

Korea's Tax Tribunal has ordered a reinvestigation into a gift tax assessment levied on Bitcoin that was transferred through a spouse's account, sending the dispute back for further fact-finding rather than issuing a final ruling on the merits.

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Ripple executive Reece Merrick says crypto payments are following e-commerce's path as stablecoins and payment rails mature worldwide.