UK financial services minister Andrew Griffith made the remarks, favoring a financial services approach.Connect/Create WalletNo wallet? No problem. You can set one up for free. We recommend Torus for first-time users.The UK government has dismissed the idea of regulating the cryptocurrency sector like gambling.
Regulating crypto like gambling would not address risk factors as demonstrated by the collapse of crypto exchange FTX last year, Griffith added.in a May report which stated crypto assets like bitcoin and ether"have no intrinsic value and serve no useful social purpose" and should be regulated by the government as gambling instruments.
Responding to the report, crypto trading firms, in a tongue-in-cheek way, questioned whether such a move would protect their profits from capital gains tax."From a tax perspective: happy days for anyone invested in crypto because it is completely exempt from a tax perspective," Nimesh Shah, chief executive of tax and accounting advisory Blick Rothenberg said in May.announced last month by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to make the country a web3 hub.
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