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LISTEN: What Sex Workers Want From Crypto

SpankChain's Allie Eve Knox talks to CoinDesk's Leigh Cuen about what sex workers want from crypto.

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Binance Will Soon Reward Market Makers for Providing Futures Liquidity

The exchange is adjusting its fee structure to incentivize market makers to add liquidity on its futures platform.

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Pullback Ahead? Bitcoin Price Indicators Suggest Waning Bull Momentum

Bitcoin's technical charts are indicating temporary bull fatigue and hinting at stronger price pullback ahead.

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US Marshals Will Auction $40M in Bitcoin This Month

The U.S. Marshals Service plans to auction more than 4,000 bitcoin, worth about $37.7 million at press time, later this month.

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Bitcoin Price Spikes to 3-Month High as Bull Cross Approaches

Bitcoin printed a three-month high on major exchanges early on Monday with a key indicator eyeing its first bullish turn in 11 months.

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Jack Dorsey Enables Bitcoin Emoji on Twitter Posts

The Twitter and Square founder also appears to be pushing Unicode to introduce the bitcoin emoji in the universal web standard.

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Stacking Fasts: Inside the Crypto Community's New Diet Craze

The Bitcoin Fasting Group skips breakfast, lunch and dinner. It’s not as bad as it sounds.

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Options Growth Will Ignite Innovation in the Bitcoin Market – But Not in the Way You Think

Richard Rosenblum, co-founder of GSR, points out the lackluster growth in listed options hides the real action taking place in OTC hedges.

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How Fund Managers View Lending and Staking: 3 Takeaways From a CoinDesk Research Webinar

In December, we invited two fund managers, both long bitcoin and other crypto assets, for a CoinDesk Research webinar on lending and staking. Jordan Clifford of Scalar Capital and Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital joined us to discuss how they evaluate risk and returns in crypto lending and staking, what crypto assets' risk-free rate might look like, and what DeFi needs to do to attract investors and new users.

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Bitcoin Heads Into Historically Positive February on a Bullish Note

Bitcoin's 30 percent rise in January has put the bulls in the driver's seat, opening the doors for a continued rally into five figures.

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