The European Parliament will vote on EU’s cryprocurrency asset regulation without a controversial proposal to outlaw all Proof-of-Work (PoW) cryptocurrencies, following a widespread backlash.
The Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) was set to vote whether to outlaw mining, purchase and trading of PoW cryptocurrencies due to environmental demands of PoW technology.But as the majority of main virtual coins, including bitcoin, ethereum, run on PoW consensus, such a ban would have far-reaching consequences and become the subject of market-wide criticism.
However, as of Monday morning, the proposal document Markets in crypto-assets regulation ( MICA ) shows that the paragraph 61 (9c) was crossed .It read: “The proposal includes an Crypto-asset providers shall not provide services related in any way, shape, or form to crypto-assets that do not meet the environmental sustainability criteria in accordance with Article 3a.”
“In particular, they shall not facilitate the purchase or trading of such crypto-assets and shall not offer custody services for such crypto-assets.”
ECON had previously scrapped the clause, but then it re-appeared to the document before being crossed out again.
Head-to-head
Cryptocurrency bulls, Elon Musk and Michael Saylor, are sticking to their guns and holding crypto assets in the inflationary environment, while economist and cryptocritic Peter Shiff warns against using BTC as inflation hedge, and author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki has changed his mind about digital assets.
Musk, the founder and chief executive at electric car maker, Tesla, asked on Twitter for people’s thoughts regarding the inflation rate over the next few years.In response, chief executive of MicroStrategy, the biggest corporate owner of BTC, Michael Saylor predicted that as inflation will run near all-time highs, “capital from cash, debt, and value stocks to scarce property like BTC will intensify.”
“It is not entirely unpredictable that you would reach that conclusion,” Musk replied, and added that he believed it was better to own physical assets like houses in a high inflation environment.“I still own & won’t sell my bitcoin, ethereum or doge for what it’s worth,” he added.
As a general principle, for those looking for advice from this thread, it is generally better to own physical things like a home or stock in companies you think make good products, than dollars when inflation is high.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
I still own & won’t sell my Bitcoin, Ethereum or Doge fwiw.
[March 14, 2022]
Separately, Kiyosaki came forward to say that due to high inflation “BEST INVESTMENT may be stocking products you will always use such as toilet paper, trash bags, canned goods, frozen foods, gold, silver, bitcoin.”
What is your sentiment on BTC/USD?
Just a couple days prior, Kiyosaki proclaimed that cryptocurrency was over.“BYE-BYE BITCOIN: Prediction.
Biden to sign EXECUTIVE ORDER regulating Cryptos.NEXT: Fed Crypto.NEXT: all crypto currencies seized & folded into GOVERNMENT crypto,” Kiyosaki wrote last week.
BRANDON & FED want INFLATION to pay off trillions in debt.BEST INVESTMENT may be stocking products you will always use such as toilette paper, trash bags, canned goods, frozen foods, gold, silver, Bitcoin.I do not trust Brandon or Fed.They are Marxists.End the Fed & Brandon.— therealkiyosaki (@theRealKiyosaki) [March 14, 2022]
Peter Shiff, economist, financial broker, and a longtime critic of cryptocurrencies, on the other hand, has pointed out that BTC’s performance did not live up to its reputation as an inflation hedge over the last two years.
When it comes to — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) [#inflation] hedges, [@ptj_official] was wrong to proclaim [#Bitcoin] to be “the fastest horse in the race.” Over the past year, with inflation finally perceived to be a threat, the price of Bitcoin has fallen by 37%.
In contrast, the price of [#gold] has risen by 12%! [March 12, 2022]
Top coins by market capitalisation
As of 11:30 GMT
– [Bitcoin (BTC)] was flat, adding 0.3% to [$39,101]
– [Ether (ETH)] was virtually unchanged, adding 0.1% and trading at $2,584
– [Binance coin (BNB)] climber 1% to [$36] 9.
Winners and losers
– Wavew (WAVES), zcash ( [ZEC] ) terra ( [LUNA] ) gained 44%, 43% and 15% week-on-week.
– Fantom ( [FTM] ), on the other hand, lost 20% over the last seven days of trading..
