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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Decouples From Stocks Ahead of Seasonally Weak March

Bitcoin and ether were up 5% over the past 24 hours, while stocks closed lower.

Investors grapple with market risk. (Mostafa Meraji, Unsplash)

Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Rises Despite Geopolitical Tensions

Bitcoin is up 10% over the past 24 hours, compared with an 8% gain in ETH and an 14% rise in SOL. Indicators suggest more volatility before a recovery unfolds.

Bitcoin rise (Shutterstock)

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'Will ETH Survive?': Why Ethereum's Leaders Forked the Network in 2016

An excerpt from podcaster Laura Shin's new book, "The Cryptopians."

(Laura Shin/PublicAffairs Books, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Market Wrap: Cryptos and Stocks Rise on Possibility of Russia-Ukraine Talks

Some traders expect the price bounce to be short-lived amid geopolitical uncertainty.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

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Key Bitcoin Trends to Monitor as BTC Enters 15th Bear Market Since 2009

Clara Medalie, research director at crypto data provider Kaiko, shares insights into bitcoin's key technical indicators she's interested in: bid-ask spreads for BTC/ETH have widened in January amid high volatility and fragile risk sentiment; BTC's correlation with bonds and gold has been negative for months while its correlation with Nasdaq recently hit 17-month highs; BTC's January spot volume reached 6-month lows.

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Fed Likely to Signal Plans for March Interest Rate Hike; Here Is What It Means for Crypto

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is expected to release a decision on interest rates this afternoon. This comes as concerns about the Fed’s impending interest rate hike have spooked the markets. Michael Safai, a managing partner at quantitative trading firm Dexterity Capital, discusses the potential impact of the FOMC decision on crypto.

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