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Today’s Top Crypto News, Friday January 13th •$100 Billion Crypto Price Boom Sees These Coins Leave Bitcoin And Ethereum In The Dust– Forbes “Bitcoin and ethereum, the two largest cryptocurrencies by a large margin, have rocketed higher this week—helping the combined crypto market add around $100 billion.” •Bloomberg, WSJ, CoinDesk

Today’s Top Crypto News, Thursday January 12th •Sam Bankman-Fried’s Supersized Bet: $1 Billion for a Bitcoin Miner on the Kazakh Steppe– WSJ “Genesis Digital is one of the largest assets in the FTX-Alameda wreckage” •Crypto Brokerage Blockchain.com Lays Off 28% of Workforce as Industry’s Cruel Winter Continues– CoinDesk “The company

Today’s Top Crypto News, Monday January 9th •U.S. subpoenas hedge funds in probe of crypto exchange Binance – Washington Post “The federal probe into Binance is unfolding at a time of deep uncertainty in the cryptocurrency industry.” •Bitcoin Blows Past $17,000. It Could Be a Big Week for Cryptos –

Today’s Top Crypto News, Friday January 6th •Crypto Exchange Huobi Sees $60M Token Outflows in a Day: Nansen– CoinDesk “On-chain data shows more than $100 million in tokens left the exchange this week, most of them in the past 24 hours, while stablecoin reserves have dropped 9.5% in a week.”

Today’s Top Crypto News, Thursday January 5th •MicroStrategy Sticks With Long-Term Bitcoin Strategy But Uses Short-Term Sale For Tax Benefit– Forbes “MicroStrategy, the business-software company that has a thing for bitcoin still loves the cryptocurrency even though it sold some for tax purposes last month, employing a tactic that could

Today’s Top Crypto News, Wednesday January 4th •Year of Bitcoin miners’ merge? Analysts predict key mining trends for 2023– CoinTelegraph “Public Bitcoin miners will actively work to minimize costs in 2023 by going private or merging with other firms, Hash Rate Index analysts predicted.” •Ether-Bitcoin Ratio on Bullish Path After

Today’s Top Crypto News, Tuesday January 3rd •On Bitcoin’s 14th Birthday, Its 1,690,706,971% Gain Looks Kind of Normal– Bloomberg “Impressive, but not unprecedented.” •Solana Price Gains as Dog Coin Bonk Fires Up Community Interest– Reuters “Bonk was airdropped to several Solana NFT projects and has steadily gained interest among holders.”

Today’s Top Crypto News, Friday December 30th •Alameda Research Liquidates Ethereum-Based Token Holdings for Bitcoin– CoinDesk “Data from Arkham Intelligence indicated that $1.7 million worth of the tokens was sold.” •Bitcoin’s biggest buy-and-hold evangelist sells BTC for first time ever after spotting lucrative U.S. tax loophole– Fortune “MicroStrategy Inc., the

Today’s Top Crypto News, Wednesday December 28th •Bitcoin Miner Argo Will Avoid Bankruptcy With $100M Bailout From Novogratz’s Galaxy– CoinDesk “Galaxy will buy Argo’s Helios facility for $65 million and provide $35 million loan to help the miner amid restructuring.” •Crypto exchange Kraken to stop operations in Japan– Reuters “U.S.-based

Today’s Top Crypto News, Thursday December 22nd •Crypto Market May See Renewed Volatility as Whales Begin to Accumulate Bitcoin– CoinDesk “Calm waters do not last long in bitcoin, so be prepared for a sharp move here shortly, one observer said, referring to the cryptocurrency’s ultra-low historical or realized price volatility.”

Today’s Top Crypto News, Wednesday December 21st •Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy, Expects Support From Some Debt Holders– Bloomberg “The publicly traded miner expects support from some of the holders of its convertible notes in a restructuring deal.” •Crypto platform Paxful removes ETH from its marketplace– CoinTelegraph “Paxful

Today’s Top Crypto News, Tuesday December 20th •First Mover Americas: Bankrupt BlockFi Asks US Court to Greenlight Withdrawals– Coindesk “Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi has asked a U.S. court to greenlight customer withdrawals that are locked up in the platform, court filings show.” •Nio Blackmailed for Millions in Bitcoin by Data-Stealing

Today’s Top Crypto News, Monday December 19th •Grayscale Considers Tender Offer for Bitcoin Trust Fund If SEC Lawsuit Fails– Bloomberg “Grayscale Investments is considering appealing to the same US regulator that it’s currently suing for permission to buy back shares of its heavily discounted Bitcoin trust should the firm’s lawsuit fail.”

Today’s Top Crypto News, Friday December 16th •Bitcoin Few Weeks Away From Its First Weekly Chart ‘Death Cross’– Coindesk “Bitcoin has never seen a death cross on its weekly chart before and the ominous-sounding indicator has a bad reputation of trapping sellers on the wrong side in traditional markets.” •Crypto

Today’s Top Crypto News, Thursday December 15th •US Senators Warren, Marshall Introduce Digital Assets Anti-Money Laundering Bill – Coindesk “The proposal will bring know-your-customer rules to crypto participants such as wallet providers and miners.” •FTX paid spox Kevin O’Leary received $18M, previously called Bitcoin ‘garbage’– Fox Business “Kevin O’Leary, who

Today’s Top Crypto News, Wednesday December 14th •Goldman Sachs Sees Gold Outperforming Bitcoin in the Longer Term: Coindesk “Bitcoin adoption will need to be driven by the development of real uses rather than speculative interest, the report said.” •Bitcoin bear market 70% dip kills BTC ‘tourists’ as metric screams buy–

Today’s Top Crypto News, Tuesday December 13th •Move Your Funds ‘Immediately’—Serious $2.2 Billion Crypto Warning Issued After Sudden Bitcoin And Ethereum Rival Price Crash: Forbes “Bitcoin, ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies have cratered this year (though leaks have revealed a $65 billion earthquake could be fast approaching).” •’FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried

Today’s Top Crypto News, Monday December 12th •US Prosecutors Look to Charge Binance and CZ on Possible Money Laundering Violations: Coindesk “The Department of Justice has also discussed possible plea deal with Binance’s lawyers, the report added.” •Cathie Wood says FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried disliked Bitcoin because he ‘couldn’t control it’–

Today’s Top Crypto News, Friday December 9th •Grayscale, Under Pressure as GBTC Discount Widens, Says DeFi Fund Now Trading– CoinDesk “Grayscale Investments, manager of the world’s biggest publicly-traded bitcoin fund, said a new decentralized finance (DeFi) fund has started trading on over-the-counter markets.” •Dogecoin’s Bitcoin-Beating Bounce May Be Bad News