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Lyllah Ledesma

Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds a master's degree from New York University in Business and Economics and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of East Anglia. Lyllah holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.

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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Hits $25K But Fails to Hold, Galaxy Digital Scraps Plan to Buy BitGo

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug. 15, 2022.

15 aug 2022

BTC couldn't hold $25,000. (Jordane Mathieu/Unsplash)

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Slips at End of Strong Week, Huobi Founder in Talks to Sell Majority Stake

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug. 12, 2022.

12 aug 2022

Leon Li and Wendy Wang of Huobi

First Mover Americas: Ether Leads Crypto Markets Higher After Final Merge Test Goes Live

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug. 11, 2022.

11 aug 2022

The upcoming Merge comes with some risks, says DappRadar. (ryasick/Getty Images)

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Jumps After Core CPI for July Comes In Lower Than Expected

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug. 10, 2022.

10 aug 2022

Bitcoin jumped to $23,500 Wednesday shortly after the release of the U.S. CPI for July. (Denny Luan/Unsplash)

First Mover Americas: As Bitcoin and Ether Slide, Investors Bet on Ethereum Fork

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug. 9, 2022.

9 aug 2022

The hot topic now is the upcoming Merge on the Ethereum network, and specifically, about the possibility of having a forked proof-of-work ETH and a proof-of-stake coin. (Riho Kroll/Unsplash)

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Passes $24K for First Time in August; Ethereum’s Buterin Shrugs Off Fork Talk

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug. 8, 2022.

8 aug 2022

BTC climbed above $24,000 with volume levels around 310 million. (Daphné Be Frenchie/Unsplash)

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin's Rally Loses Steam After US Jobs Report

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug. 5, 2022.

5 aug 2022

Bitcoin witnessed some downside after a strong U.S. jobs report for July. (redcharlie/Unsplash)

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Unaffected by Bank of England's Super-Size Interest-Rate Hike

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug. 4, 2022.

4 aug 2022

The Bank of England raised key interest rates by half a percentage point, and yet BTC appears to be unaffected. (KS KYUNG/Unsplash)

First Mover Americas: Crypto Market Trades in the Green Despite Hacks

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug. 3, 2022.

3 aug 2022

Even with multiple hacks this week, the crypto market traded mostly in the green on Wednesday morning. (Nicholas Stanley/Unsplash)

Crypto Exchange BitMEX Offers Strategy on Potential 'ETHPoW' Split as China Miner Contests Ethereum Merge

BitMEX analysts say a threatened fork from the Ethereum blockchain might generate some interest from investors.

2 aug 2022

Chinese crypto miner Chandler Guo has launched a campaign to fork the Ethereum blockchain and create a spinoff, hewing to the “proof-of-work” (PoW) system that it uses now. (bildanova/500px/Getty Images)

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