Markets Daily Crypto Roundup

Bitcoin News Roundup for May 25, 2021

With the number of bitcoin holders shooting to a record high and a look at what a new bitcoin mining council says about sustainability, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

Listen or watch all the new CoinDesk podcast episodes wherever you want.
Cast BoxiTunesPocket CastsRSSRadio PublicSpotify

ABOUT

[@portabletext/react] Unknown block type "iframe", specify a component for it in the `components.types` prop

With the number of bitcoin holders shooting to a record high and a look at what a new bitcoin mining council says about sustainability, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here.

This episode is sponsored by .

Today's stories:

Fed Inflation Comments Buoy Stocks; Dollar Weakens:

China Stocks Jump Most Since July Amid Record Foreign Purchases

Goldman Sachs wins approval for wealth management deal with China’s ICBC

Emerging-Market Bonds Prove Covid Resistant - WSJ

Bitcoin’s True Social Cost Is Impossible to Ignore

Hedge Fund Billionaire Ray Dalio: 'I Have Some Bitcoin'

Fed's Brainard Breaks Down CBDC Policy Considerations

DeFi Is Rising in Chicago

HSBC CEO Says Bank 'Not Into Bitcoin' Due to Concerns Over Volatility: Report

Bitcoin Mining Council 'Isn't the Start of OPEC,' Member Says

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