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Moneroâs surge amid cryptocurrency taxation news adds to an 84% bounce since the recent market crash.
Coinciding with news that United States President Joe Bidenâs proposed tax plan would require tax reporting on business transactions exceeding $10,000, the value of privacy coin Monero (XMR) climbed 31% on Friday.
Bidenâs American Families tax plan would require exchanges and custodians to implement tighter reporting measures to help detect tax evasion and money laundering. Banks and financial institutions would also be required to report account inflow/outflow information to the Internal Revenue Service to help uncover unreported income.
The Treasury Departmentâs agenda, which was published on Thursday, stated that cryptocurrency business activity remained relatively small but was expected to increase in the next decade.
âDespite constituting a relatively small portion of business income today, cryptocurrency transactions are likely to rise in importance in the next decade, especially in the presence of a broad-based financial account reporting regime,â stated the report.
Just over 24 hours later, Monero led the charts among the cryptocurrency market capitalization top 100 with 31% growth. The coin price climbed from $230 to $304 overnight, adding to a now 84% rebound since Monero sank to a three-month low of $165 during Wednesdayâs market crash.
Supplemental technologies that can anonymize the transactions of many well-known cryptocurrencies now exist, but Monero remains one of the few coins focused solely on privacy and is the largest of its kind by market cap.
Launched in 2014, Monero has since become a currency of choice on the drug markets of the dark web, replacing more well-known coins such as Bitcoin (BTC) in recent years. Blockchain analysis poses a threat to anyone using Bitcoin on the dark web, from drug dealers to anonymous journalists. Monero transactions cannot be traced in the same way. The technology has drawn the attention of government agencies worldwide, many of which have offered bounties to anyone who can make the opaque cryptocurrency transparent.
Google Trends data shows that Monero search interest has increased by close to 1,000% in the past year, as the coin price rose 1,300% from March 2020âs valuation of $34. Despite the surge in interest, historic search queries remain a quarter of what they were in December 2017, when Moneroâs presence in the market cap top 10 gave it a more visible position in the cryptocurrency shop window.
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