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UK government rejects lawmakers call to treat crypto like gambling

The government added that they are already working on regulating the crypto market and a proposed regulatory legislation was laid before parliament and debated last month. The United Kingdom government has rejected a proposal made by the U.K. Treasury Committee to regulate crypto retail trading in the same way it oversees gambling, stressing that it "firmly disagrees" with the Committee's stance.  A panel of British lawmakers called for regulating the crypto market in the country similar to gambling in a May 17 House of Commons Committee report. The Treasury Committee said that the crypto investment activity is consistent with the principle of “same risk, same regulatory outcome.” U.K financial services minister Andrew Griffith, in a response on July 20 to the committee, rejected the proposal and said that the HM Treasury firmly disagrees with the “Committee’s recommendation to regulate retail trading and investment activity in unbacked cryptoassets as gambling rather th...

A sideways Bitcoin price could lead to breakouts in ETH, XRP, LDO and RNDR

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If BTC price consolidates in the $25,000 range, ETH, XRP, LDO and RNDR could be the first altcoins to break out with recovery rallies. Altcoin price s crumbled after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase at the start of the week. Apart from the action against the two biggest crypto exchanges, investors seem to be nervous because the SEC labeled 23 cryptocurrencies as securities in the two lawsuits. That brings the total number of cryptocurrencies termed as securities by the SEC to 67. Among the mayhem, a minor positive is that Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) have held out relatively well. This suggests that institutional investors are not panicking and dumping their positions. Due to their outperformance, Bitcoin’s dominance has risen to a year-to-date high of 47.6% and Ether’s to 20%. Crypto market data daily view. Source: Coin360 The uncertainty in the near term is likely to keep several investors on the sidelines. ...