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Filing Taxes If You've Sold or Exchanged Crypto in 2021
If you've sold or exchanged any crypto in 2021, the IRS wants to know. Henry Yoshida, Co-founder & CEO, OF Rocket Dollar joined Cheddar's Opening Bell to discuss which crypto activities are taxable and how to best spend your tax refund.

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SEC Chair Gary Gensler Says Agency is Plans to Regulate, Register Crypto to Protect Investors
The $2 trillion crypto market will soon be subject to much greater governmental oversight. SEC Chair Gary Gensler announced this week that his agency plans to register and regulate digital currencies. He also revealed that the U.S. will focus on three different areas - crypto platforms, stablecoins, and crypto tokens. Jarrod Loadholt, partner at the law firm Ice Miller, LLP, joined Cheddar News' Closing Bell to discuss.

CityZenith on Using Digital Twin Technology to Decarbonize Cities
Blueprints and paper maps might soon be a thing of the past as more cities potentially turn to digital twin technology to create virtual models of urban environments. Michael Jansen, CEO of the digital twin platform CityZenith, broke down how this technology works, what it's being used for, and how it might be a game-changer for the future of urban planning. "Our focus at CityZenith is on helping cities to decarbonize," Jansen said. "We joined the World Economic Forum recently to work in their net-zero carbon cities program. So what digital twins can do here with cities is aggregate all this complex data around that issue: transport, building emissions, etc., and scenario-ize how they interrelate and then how to optimize the entire process of decarbonizing, which is itself complex."



