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Bitcoin Sells Off 3%; Is Macro Risk Returning to Market?

U.S. economic data on Thursday has sent rates and the dollar higher.

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Qatar’s Sovereign Fund Might Be Buying Bitcoin, But Surely Not $500B Worth

Government-led investments in crypto are increasingly plausible – but not at that rumored size.

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Crypto for Advisors: The Investment Case of Bitcoin vs. Ether

With the dual tailwind of bitcoin ETF flows and the upcoming halving, is bitcoin the best bet? Not so fast. Ethereum, the next biggest crypto asset by market cap, has a case of its own to make.

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Pepe, Dogwifhat Could Lead Next Round of Meme Coin Surge

The strongest sector growth this year has emerged from non-serious tokens, and the rally shows no signs of stopping.

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Bitcoin Miner Bitdeer Is 'Differentiated' From Peers, Shares Are Cheap: Benchmark

Stock appears undervalued given the wide gap between the company’s valuation and its growth prospects, the report said.

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Craig Wright Not Satoshi, Didn't Author Bitcoin Whitepaper, Judge Rules

COPA took Craig Wright to court last month to secure such a ruling that he wasn't the pseudonymous creator of the world's largest digital asset in an effort to prevent him from suing other developers ...

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First Mover Americas: Robinhood Shares Jump, Layer 2s Become Cheaper

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for March 14, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

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Hong Kong's Markets Regulator Issues Warning Against Crypto Exchange Bybit

Hong Kong's markets regulator identified Bybit as a suspicious cryptocurrency exchange and placed several of its products on its suspicious investment products list.

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Protocol Village: BNB Chain Unveils 'Rollup-as-a-Service,' to Spur Layer 2s Built on BSC

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of March 14-March 20.

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Hong Kong Starts New Phase of CBDC Testing

Phase 2 of the e-HKD pilot will be supported by the recently launched regulatory sandbox for testing wholesale CBDCs and tokenization, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said.

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Meme Coins Strongly Correlated to Network Growth: Franklin Templeton

Meme coin markets have boomed in tandem with the growth of addresses on their underlying blockchains.

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DeFi Borrower Behavior Key to Gauging Tokenization Risks: BIS Study

The study was designed to look at the largely unexplored "intricacies" of user behavior and dynamics of decentralized finance lending, the authors said.

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Gold Bug Peter Schiff Says He Wishes He'd Bought Bitcoin in 2010

The American stockbroker has repeatedly called bitcoin a “bubble” and said he still doesn’t believe in its long-term future.

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Layer 2 Blockchains Become Cheaper After Ethereum's Dencun Upgrade

The upgrade allows layer 2 solutions to store data in "blobs" instead of the expensive call data.

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Robinhood Shares Jump in Premarket Trading After Blowout February Activity Levels

Crypto trading volume grew 10% month-on-month to $6.5 billion, the company said.

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Fireblocks, Zodia Markets Partner to Improve Cross-Border Payments

The two crypto firms are attempting to improve cross-border payments via stablecoins for large corporations and institutions.

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Crypto.com Fined $3.1M by Dutch Regulator for Operating Without Registration

The Dutch central bank announced the fine was imposed for non-compliance before the company registered with the regulator.

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Robinhood to Benefit From ‘Monster’ Crypto Cycle, Initiated Outperform by Bernstein

Total crypto market cap is expected to reach $7.5 trillion by 2025 from $2.6 trillion today, the report said.

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Developers Upload Script of Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Bee Movie’ on Ethereum as Gas Fees Plunge After Dencun

Copying and pasting the Bee Movie script is a niche internet meme that originated on Tumblr and quickly spread to Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, and other social media platforms.

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