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Bitcoin Tumbles 11% This Week; A Payments Giant Dives Deeper Into CBDCs

The most valuable crypto stories for Friday, August 18, 2023.

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"The Hash" team discusses the top crypto stories of the day, including bitcoin (BTC) falling over 10% this week. Bloomberg reports securities regulators are poised to approve ether (ETH) futures ETFs for trading in the U.S. A group lost a lawsuit funded by Coinbase that sought to argue the U.S. Treasury Department overstepped its authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash. And, Mastercard has created a forum where crypto industry players can discuss and collaborate on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

See also:

Crypto Traders Suffer $1B in Liquidations in Sharp Sell-Off for Bitcoin, Ether

Ether Futures ETFs Are Poised for U.S. Approval, Bloomberg Reports

Coinbase-Backed Group Loses Lawsuit Arguing Tornado Cash Sanctions Overstepped U.S. Treasury's Authority

Mastercard Deepens Tie to CBDCs as Nations Mull Issuing Digital Currencies


This episode has been edited by senior producer Michele Musso and the executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Neon Beach.”

HOSTS

William Foxley

Will Foxley is the host of The Mining Pod and publisher at Blockspace Media. A former co-host of CoinDesk's The Hash, Will was the director of content at Compass Mining and a tech reporter at CoinDesk.

William Foxley
Zack Seward

Zack Seward is CoinDesk’s contributing editor-at-large. Up until July 2022, he served as CoinDesk’s deputy editor-in-chief. Prior to joining CoinDesk in November 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a news site focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Before that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Zack Seward
Jennifer Sanasie

Jennifer Sanasie is an executive producer and senior anchor at CoinDesk, with over a decade of journalism experience across the U.S., Canada, and South Africa. Beyond media, she has worked closely with Web3 companies on marketing, content, and business strategy.

Jennifer holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, a Master of Laws in Innovation and Technology from the University of Toronto, a BA in Media Studies from the University of Guelph, and a Journalism Diploma from Humber College.

She owns BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC, USDT, G7, and DCNT. She also holds a mix of NFTs, altcoins and memecoins worth under $1,000.

Jennifer Sanasie