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Brazil Plans Tax on Cross-Border Crypto Transactions

The post Brazil Plans Tax on Cross-Border Crypto Transactions appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Brazil’s Finance Ministry is considering applying its financial transaction tax to cryptocurrencies used in international payments. The central bank has categorized these crypto transactions, including those involving virtual assets and stablecoins, as foreign exchange operations, which could make them taxable. This move aims to close regulatory gaps and bring crypto payments under existing financial tax …

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U.S. hits 70+ fatal dog attacks & 50+ deaths by pit bulls for 3rd year in a row

The pit bull mauling deaths of Georgia senior citizens Walter Anthony “Tony” Sterno, 78, and Evelyn Farmer, 68, on November 3, 2025 and November 11, 2025 respectively, ran the U.S. dog attack death toll to seventy and the pit bull attack death toll to 54. That makes 2025 the third consecutive year in which dog attack deaths have reached seventy and the fourth straight year in which pit bull attack deaths have exceeded fifty. The U.S. record for dog attack deaths in one year stands at 75, reached in 2024; the record for pit bull attack deaths at 59, reached in 2023. The respective tolls, tracked by ANIMALS 24-7 since 1982 and retroactively back to 1833, had never reached even half as high before 2010, and had never reached ten and five before 2000.