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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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Exchange Tokens: Neither a Great Investment Nor a Great Market Indicator

It’s surprising that, despite the success of their issuers, exchange tokens have not been more successful as investments, or as metrics of adoption in one of crypto assets' best-proven use cases, speculation.

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Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 30, 2020

Markets Daily is back with news of the day and clips of Democratic Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang's recent crypto comments.

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Bitcoin Reinforces Latest Rally With Defense of $9,200 Price Support

The recent bitcoin rally is looking solid, with the bulls defending key price support earlier on Thursday.

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