Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 5, 2022

With crypto markets oscillating around local lows and a look at a few stories of the price some pay (literally) for carelessness in the world of NFTs, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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Today's Stories:

Bitcoin Holds Support Ahead of Fed Minutes, March Rate Hike Probability Rises

Tech shares fall as investors look past Omicron disruptions | Financial Times

Bitcoin May Squeeze Higher As Retail Interest Subsides : Analyst

Chainlink Jumps While Bitcoin Stages Recovery

Bitcoin Holds Support Ahead of Fed Minutes, March Rate Hike Probability Rises

Workers Quit Jobs at a Record Level in November - WSJ

U.S. manufacturing catches its breath and supply chain logjams start to break up

European Markets Regulator Seeks Feedback on Regulation of Tokenized Securities

Estonia Regulator Says No Plans to Ban Crypto

Jamaica Completes CBDC Pilot, Expects Rollout Later This Year

Boston Fed Is Hiring New Director for CBDC Project

CoinDesk Joins Court Case Seeking Access to NYAG Tether Documents

Bitcoin Can Reach $100,000 in ‘Hypothetical’ Store of Value Boost, Goldman Sachs Says

Nvidia Makes Its Metaverse-Building Software Free for Individual Creators

Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs Will Be Auctioned Despite Lawsuit - Decrypt

Featured Story: Ape Theft Is an Expensive Way to Learn About Crypto’s Security Philosophy

This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust.

HOSTS

Adrian Blust

Associate Producer for CoinDesk, Adrian 'Doc' Blust, is an experienced Composer, Musician/DJ, fintech nerd, and Educator, with practice both in the field and in the studio. He currently is dedicated to the editing & production of the Markets Daily Crypto News Roundups with Adam B. Levine, focused on quick news feeds to help people get up to speed with the fast pace of crypto every morning. He also offers support in the production of other shows on CoinDesk’s diverse Podcast Network.

He holds BTC, ETH, and ADA above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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.