As the price of bitcoin broke through $120,000, Michael Saylor wrote on the X platform that the market value of 640,031 bitcoin held by Strategy reached a high of $77.40 billion, surpassing the market value of Bank of New York Mellon, Sberbank of Russia, United Bank of America, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, ING, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, ANZ Bank and Lloyds Bank, and equivalent to the GDP of Uruguay, Sri Lanka and Slovenia.
The Slovenian Ministry of Finance is seeking advice on a proposal to impose a 25% tax on individuals' profits from the disposal of cryptoassets. The proposal, released on Thursday, aims to close a loophole in the country's tax system, which taxes business income from crypto asset transactions but exempts natural persons from buying and selling crypto assets as investments. The deadline for soliciting comments on the proposals is May 5. If approved by Parliament, it is expected to take effect on ...
According to official sources, Slovenia's securities regulator has granted Bitstamp a MiFID MTF license, enabling the cryptocurrency trading platform to offer more complex products to institutional and retail clients. The license also allows Bitstamp to launch crypto derivatives, including perpetual contracts.
ECB President Christine Lagarde will address the official Slovenian Central Bank dinner in ten minutes.
Slovenia has become the first European Union member state to issue a 30 million euro (32.50 million dollar) sovereign digital bond, settled on-chain via the Bank of France's tokenized cash system, as part of the ECB's experimental monetary settlement program. The four-month note, which matures on November 25, has a coupon rate of 3.65 percent. The Slovenian government said it settled on Thursday in a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC).