Lawrence Lewitinn

Managing Editor, Global Capital Markets

Lawrence Lewitinn serves as the Director of Content for The Tie, a crypto data company, and co-hosts CoinDesk's flagship "First Mover" program. Previously, he held the position of Managing Editor for Markets at CoinDesk. He is a seasoned financial journalist having worked at CNBC, TheStreet, Yahoo Finance, the Observer, and crypto publication Modern Consensus. Lewitinn's career also includes time on Wall Street as a trader of fixed income, currencies, and commodities at Millennium Management and MQS Capital. Lewitinn graduated from New York University and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He is also a CFA Charterholder. He holds investments in bitcoin.

Latest from Lawrence Lewitinn

Markets

Does Crypto Need Circuit Breakers? Last Week’s Price Crash Ignites a Debate

A longtime feature of stock exchanges, circuit breakers throw sand in the gears of a plummeting market like last week’s. Should crypto adopt them?

Mar 16, 2020

Markets

QE4 Begins: Fed Cuts Rates, to Buy $700B in Bonds

Effectively, this is “QE4,” the fourth major round of quantitative easing by the American central bank since the global financial crisis a little more than a decade ago.

Mar 15, 2020

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Galaxy's Novogratz: XRP Will 'Underperform Immensely Again This Year'

XRP will have another lackluster year in 2020, Galaxy Digital CEO (and Ripple shareholder) Mike Novogratz told a roomful of financial advisers.

Feb 5, 2020

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Whiplash: Bitcoin Slides Below $6,500, Surges Above $7,100 in 8-Hour Span

Bitcoin traders might need a neck brace from watching Wednesday's price action.

Dec 18, 2019

Bitcoin's price took a sharp U-turn in the course of trading on Wednesday

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Chainalysis Report on PlusToken 'Scammers' Blamed for Monday’s Crypto Selloff

As bitcoin and ether prices fell below technically significant levels, some traders are citing fear emanating from a report about the alleged PlusToken Ponzi scheme as the reason for the plunge

Dec 16, 2019

Bitcoin fell 4 percent in a matter of minutes Monday, image via CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index

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MARKETS DAILY: Russian Drugs and The Most Illegal ICO Ever?

With bitcoin recovering after four straight days of decline we're talking about what may be the most illegal ICO ever, tokens for Mongolian taxi fares, Bitmain’s Texas hedge and one "suicidal" startups surprising success...

Dec 13, 2019

Markets

Ride 'Em, Cowboy: Bitmain's Marketing Gambit Ups Its Texas-Sized Position on Bitcoin

Bitmain's new strategy of giving put options on bitcoin to buyers of its miners amounts to a "Texas hedge" – doubling down on risk, not offsetting it.

Dec 12, 2019

Big Tex image via Leena Robinson/Shutterstock

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