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Bitcoin News Roundup for Oct. 29, 2020

As bitcoin’s chance at a new record high fades for 2020, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!

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As bitcoin’s chance at a new record high fades for 2020, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!

This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic.

Today's stories:

Bitcoin's Options Market Sees Just 6% Chance of $20K Before Year's End

At press time, bitcoin was seeing a 6% probability of trading above the historical 2017 all-time high of $20,000 by the end of December.

Avanti Financial Joins Kraken as a Wyoming-Approved Crypto Bank

Blockchain pioneer Caitlin Long is now the CEO of her own special purpose depository institution (SPDI) in Wyoming.

Bank of Canada Governor Says Digital Dollar Project Moving Past Trial Stage

Tiff Macklem said Canada's digital dollar initiative is progressing past the experimental phase, and that the G7 needs to coordinate on digital currencies.

Two Indicted in Latest Federal Prosecution of SIM-Swapping Crypto Theft

One alleged conspirator tried to SWAT a henchman after that person "failed to share" the pair's stolen crypto.

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 Oct. 29, 2020