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Bitcoin News Roundup for March 12, 2021

With BTC hovering just below $58K and a look at how blockchains are about to make a lot of things effectively free, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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With BTC hovering just below $58K and a look at how blockchains are about to make a lot of things effectively free, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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This episode is sponsored by Nexo.ioCasper and The Sun Exchange

Today's stories:

Binance Investigated by US Over Bitcoin (BTC USD) Cryptocurrency Price Trading (Bloomberg)

Stock Futures Pull Back After Record-Setting Rally (WSJ)

Ripple Executives have asked a Court to Block SEC Requests for their Personal Financial Records

NFT Art Craze Spreads to China

Australia’s Government Allocates $6.9 Million Aussie dollars for Blockchain Pilot Projects

Blockchain Gets its First Mention in China's 5-Year Policy Plan

Paul Brody: The Future of Everything Is Free

HOST

Adam B. Levine

Adam B. Levine joined CoinDesk in 2019 as the editor of its new audio and podcasts division. Previously, Adam founded the long-running Let's Talk Bitcoin! talk show with co-hosts Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos.

Finding early success with the show, Adam transformed the podcast's homepage into a full newsdesk and publishing platform, founding the LTB Network in January of 2014 to help broaden the conversation with new and different perspectives. In the Spring of that year, he would go on to launch the first and largest tokenized rewards program for creators and their audience. In what many have called an early influential version of "Steemit"; LTBCOIN, which was awarded to both content creators and members of the audience for participation was distributed until the LTBN was acquired by BTC, Inc. in January of 2017.

With the network launched and growing, in late 2014 Adam turned his attention to the practical challenges of administering the tokenized program and founded Tokenly, Inc. There, he led the development of early tokenized vending machines with Swapbot, tokenized identity solution Tokenpass, e-commerce with TokenMarkets.com and media with Token.fm. Adam owns some BTC, ETH and small positions in a number of other tokens.

Adam B. Levine
Bitcoin News Roundup for March 12, 2021