Markets Daily Crypto Roundup

Bitcoin News Roundup for March 9, 2021

With BTC back above $54K and a look at asset class performance so far this year, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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With BTC back above $54K and a look at asset class performance so far this year CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Casper and The Sun Exchange

Today's stories:

How the NFT Boom Explains Square’s Tidal Buy

Coinbase’s Valuation Nears $100B Ahead of a planned March Nasdaq Listing

PayPal Confirms an earlier CoinDesk scoop: It's Buying Crypto Security Firm Curv

Bitcoin Has Zero Intrinsic Value. Some People Are OK With That (Bloomberg)

Stock Futures Rise, Pointing to Tech’s Rebound (WSJ)

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