First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Passes $24K for First Time in August; Ethereum’s Buterin Shrugs Off Fork Talk
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for August 8, 2022. Source
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GDP Falls Further in Q2, Fueling Talk of a Recession
“The Fed can't say, we're trying to push the economy into a recession, but in my opinion they are, because that's the only thing that's going to slow down prices,” Bob Iaccino, chief strategist at Path Trading Partners and co-portfolio manager at Stock Think Tank, said. Original Source
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400+ Crypto Advertisements Violate Guidelines in India — ‘Some Influencers Talk About Crypto Without Understanding It’ – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has reportedly revealed that more than 400 crypto ads violated its guidelines so far this year. The majority of complaints the ad council received are directed at influencers. “Some influencers talk so confidently about crypto without fully understanding it.” 419 Ads in Violation —
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Michael Saylor Says MicroStrategy Margin Call Talk Is ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
MicroStrategy CEO and bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor isn't shying away from his bullish stance. Original Source
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Hey Crypto World, Let’s Talk About Mainstreaming the Satoshi at Consensus
Although bitcoin, along with the rest of the crypto market, has been on a downturn lately, the price of a single BTC remains around $30,000, or about the starting price of a new Toyota Prius. Many take one glance and move on, not understanding that anyone can buy fractions of
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Desperate LUNA Investor Arrested, New Terra Network Announced, Davos Blockchain Talk, and More — Bitcoin.com News Week in Review – The Weekly Bitcoin News
From a desperate investor’s ill-advised visit to Terra co-founder Do Kwon’s house resulting in an arrest, the announcement of a new Terra network, and blockchain talk at Davos, to predictions of U.S. economic collapse if inflation isn’t reigned in quickly, there’s no shortage of action-packed crypto stories this past week.
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We Need to Talk About Exchanges That Sell You Coins Like UST
CoinDesk Editor-in-Chief Kevin Reynolds alerted me this week to a striking Linkedin post by a Coinbase (COIN) staffer. In the post, apparently now deleted, the Coinbaser wrote in part that it’s “crazy to me how much market value sits in these (probably) useless projects,” before listing a half-dozen tokens including
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Chairmen from the SEC and CFTC talk crypto regulation at ISDA meeting
The annual meeting of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) began Wednesday in Madrid. United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Gary Gensler and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Rostin Behnam were both featured as keynote speakers at the event, with Behnam speaking at the morning
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Attendees talk the future of NFTs
The crypto community headed to Nassau in the Bahamas this week for the inaugural Crypto Bahamas conference. Like most conferences, panels fill up the agenda and on Wednesday the topics at Crypto Bahamas ranged from NFTs to crypto in sports and to asset allocation in Web3. During one particular conversation,
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Co-founders of UkraineDAO and Friends With Benefits DAO talk autonomous organizations at SXSW
Kimbal Musk, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Alex Zhang took to the SXSW stage on Monday to participate in the "Move Over NFTs. Here Come the DAOs" panel at Austin's Convention Center. Tolokonnikova is a former member of the Russian protest punk rock group Pussy Riot, and the co-founder of UnicornDAO and
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