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Individual investors and second-home buyers accounted for 1 in 5 home purchases in September — the highest share in a little over a year.

Crypto investors who failed to report trades in previous years may soon breathe a sigh of relief thanks to legislation currently advancing in the US Congress. Section 502 of the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act, H. R. 10357, would require the Treasury secretary to establish a Digital Asset Voluntary Disclosure Program within 12 months of the bill becoming law. That would allow eligible taxpayers to correct any past digital asset tax violation by filing amended returns and paying the tax owed, along with interest and a program penalty. The House Ways and Means Committee approved the bill by a 38-5 vote on Sept. 16, but it has not become law yet; it still has to pass the House and Senate and be signed by the president. “It’s a big change that would help a lot of ordinary taxpayers, and it has gotten very little attention,” Andrew Gordon, executive director of Digital Asset Tax Action, tells Magazine. A gap in the systemCrypto investors in the US are already grappling with the first filing season under the new 1099-DA broker reporting rules, which give the IRS greater visibility into crypto transactions.

It’s a key week for tech stocks as Nvidia gears up for a European conference and Meta prepares to report earnings.

Nine listed companies have formally objected to having their shares offered in tokenized form on the proposed tokenized stock platform backed by OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The companies included Cerebras Systems, AppLovin, Applied Digital, Rocket Lab, CoreWeave, Verizon Communications, Applied Optoelectronics, Broadcom and UnitedHealth Group, according to a Thursday notice by OKX and ICE. The notice did not disclose the reason behind the objection. Under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Sept. 17 innovation exemption announcement, tokenized venues must give issuers written notice and an opportunity to object before listing third-party tokenized stocks. “Issuers aren’t objecting to the blockchain. They’re objecting to not knowing what happens to their price once it trades there,” Robin Nordnes, CEO of trading validation platform Raiku, told Cointelegraph. “On a public chain, the validator building the block sets the order.

Interested in more careers-related content? Check out our new weekly Work Life newsletter. Sent every Monday afternoon. Marc Cenedella’s career has been shaped in part by his love of video games. “I played Space Invaders and Centipede and Mission Control and my first job at Yale as an undergraduate was running computers for the Yale School of Music,” says Mr. Cenedella, now 56. He says his first jobs after university all involved understanding how to take real-world information and put it into computers. “When they started to have connected gaming and we were all collaborating virtually with our squad, well that’s just remote work.” From early computer programming to remote collaboration to virtual and augmented reality and now artificial intelligence, Mr. Cenedella says games have been instrumental in familiarizing young people with the tools that will become vital to their future careers. Now, as the founder and chief executive officer of Ladders, a New York-based job platform for six-figure jobs, Mr. Cenedella is encouraging employers to take gaming skills and accolades as a serious indicator of candidate potential.