The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…

TA: Bitcoin Price Sets New ATH, Why BTC…
Bitcoin price started another rally and broke the $35,500 resistance against the US Dollar. BTC traded to a new all-time high near $37,400 before starting a consolidation. Bitcoin is up over 10% and it broke…

TA: Bitcoin Price Starts Fresh Increase, Why $33,500…
Bitcoin price declined sharply towards the $28,000 zone against the US Dollar. BTC is currently rising, but it might face a strong resistance near $33,200 and $33,500. Bitcoin almost 20% towards the $28,000 level before…

Bitcoin price faces the last roadblock before $30,000
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has reached a new all-time high above $29,400 across major exchanges on Jan. 1. In other words, BTC is just 2% away from reaching the psychological resistance level at $30,000.…

Valid Points: A Year in Review by Your…
In less than 48 hours, 2020 will be behind us. It almost seems too big a task to recount all that has happened in this world, in this industry and in our own personal lives…

Why Bitcoin Price Looks Ready For Another Leg…
Bitcoin price started a steady upward move from the $17,500 support zone against the US Dollar. BTC is currently attempting an upside break and it could rally above $19,000. Bitcoin is trading in a positive…

Bitcoin undervalued sub-$20K, says new report as BTC…
Bitcoin (BTC) investors have “not long” to accumulate before a continuation of the bull run past $20,000, a new report says. Released on Dec. 10, the Weekly Report from Asian crypto fund provider Stack Funds…

TA: Bitcoin Stuck In A Crucial Range, Why…
Bitcoin price is still trading in a broad range below the $19,500 resistance against the US Dollar. BTC must gain strength above $19,500 to start a fresh rally in the near term. Bitcoin is facing…

3 key metrics to watch as Bitcoin price…
For the past week, Bitcoin (BTC) price has been flirting with the $20,000 mark, which has led some traders to lose their patience. In the eyes of some traders, the lack of bullish momentum is…

Bitcoin Surges After Bulls Defend Key Level; What…
Bitcoin is in the process of pushing higher today, with bulls aiming at sending the cryptocurrency up towards the resistance that it has long faced within the mid-to-upper $19,000 region. If the selling pressure here…

Over 5,000 Bitcoin Worth $97 Million from the…
As bitcoin surpassed its 2017 all-time high on Monday morning, a few hours later 5,045 BTC or $97 million worth of bitcoin from the 2016 Bitfinex hack was transferred. The hackers that stole the funds…

Bitcoin must now reclaim these price levels to…
Bitcoin (BTC) has been seeing significant momentum in previous weeks as its price was approaching the precious $20,000 all-time high. However, an abrupt end came to this glorious rally with Bitcoin price crashing severely over…

Blockchain Bites: Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Fully Loaded,…
More than 500,000 ETH have been locked and loaded into Ethereum 2.0’s deposit contract, kick-starting the network’s major, multi-year development phase. JPMorgan analysts say institutions are piling into bitcoin. And the IRS has again sent…

TA: Bitcoin Stuck In Range, Why BTC Remains…
Bitcoin price failed again to clear the $18,800 resistance against the US Dollar. BTC is trading in a range and it could correct lower sharply if there is a break below $18,200. Bitcoin is still…

$2.3B in Bitcoin exchange outflows dwarfs the amount…
From Oct. 15 to Nov. 15, Bitcoin (BTC) exchange outflows dropped from 2.5 million to 2.355 million, the lowest levels since August 2018. Approximately 145,000 BTC, worth $2.35 billion at a price point of $16,200,…

Crypto Long & Short: What We’re Getting Wrong…
The chorus is getting louder. Adding his sonorous voice to the chorus of renowned investors talking about bitcoin recently, hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller stated on a CNBC interview this week that he believed bitcoin…

3 reasons Bitcoin price just hit $16,000 for…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) surged past $16,000 on Nov. 12 for the first time in nearly three years. The momentum of the dominant cryptocurrency is strengthening due to three key major factors. The main…

Bitcoin price reclaims $15.5K after whales sell the…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has reclaimed $15,500 on Nov. 11 after whales sold the highest amount of BTC since March. In the past cycles, the dominant cryptocurrency typically rallied after a sell-off from whales.…

Volume Surge Brings 25% Turnover to ‘CoinDesk 20’
Goodbye, dai and bitcoin sv. Hello, kyber and cosmos. A swelling in volume in the crypto markets over the third quarter has changed the list of noteworthy digital assets beyond bitcoin and ether that matter…

Bitcoin price gets closer to the last big…
While the United States’ election is still undecided, Bitcoin (BTC) is experiencing a major rally, as BTC price nearly reached $16,000 today, the highest level since January 2018. Other asset classes have also been doing…

Bitcoin breaches $14,000 on election day, up 1,900%…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) rose by more than 2% in two hours to briefly top $14,000 as the polls were starting to close across many U.S. states on Nov. 3. At the time of…

This Investor Group is Causing Bitcoin to Decouple…
Bitcoin is finally breaking its correlation with the stock market, which has been persisting despite its recent uptrend’s strength. An example of this correlation’s lingering effects can be seen while looking towards yesterday’s selloff, with…

Bitcoin ‘price will follow,’ says analyst after historically…
Bitcoin (BTC) has already hit an all-time high this week, according to one price measurement from popular statistician Willy Woo. In a series of tweets on Oct. 27, Woo added to his recent bullish prognoses…

Bitcoin price will follow, says analyst after historically…
Bitcoin (BTC) has already hit an all-time high this week, according to one price measurement from popular statistician Willy Woo. In a series of tweets on Oct. 27, Woo added to his recent bullish prognoses…

Former BitFinex Whale Expects Bitcoin Dump as Price…
Bitcoin bulls should expect pain ahead even as the cryptocurrency has added more than $1,000 to its value in the last five days. Bitcoin breaks $12,000 in the latest rally. Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com Bitcoin…

Nigerian Banks Shut Them Out, so These Activists…
As protests surge through Nigeria in response to police brutality, one enclave of protestors has turned to bitcoin as a financial lifeline during turbulent times. The Feminist Coalition’s bank account was shuttered this month after…

Mt Gox Rehabilitation Plan Delayed Again to December…
The submission deadline for the Mt Gox civil rehabilitation plan has been extended once again, this time to December 15. The deadline has been pushed back at least three times before, including in the latest…

A Russian Company Is Opening a Mining Farm…
BitCluster, a cryptocurrency mining company in Russia, is setting up shop where few dare to wander. A new mining farm above the Arctic Circle, in the industrial area of Norilsk in the Taymyr Peninsula, will…

Will a Sharded Ethereum Be Flexible Enough for…
“Money legos” might be an apt metaphor for what decentralized finance (DeFi) does, but since the summer another one has applied: jackpot. Money legos is the term used to describe the way Ethereum allows different…

$12K Bitcoin price back on the table after…
On Friday Bitcoin (BTC) price finally managed to break above the symmetrical triangle where the price had been compressing for the last 30 days. After holding the $11,000 level into the daily close, the price…

Blockchain Bites: DeFi Meets NFTs, TSLA Beats Bitcoin…
Bitcoin is moving off exchanges, has been less volatile than TLSA and broke its record for longest streak trading above five figures. Also: Bitwise’s bitcoin fund has more than doubled in size, KuCoin was hacked…

Bitcoin 200-week moving average hints price will never…
Bitcoin (BTC) speculators waiting for a BTC price drop of even 35% will probably be waiting forever, new data shows. In a tweet on Sep. 22, quant analyst PlanB noted that Bitcoin will break the…

Bitcoin price hits 1-week low as US dollar…
Bitcoin (BTC) reacted to fresh strength in the U.S. dollar on Sep. 21 to follow stocks downward and move away from $11,000. Cryptocurrency market daily snapshot, Sept. 7. Source: Coin360 DXY surge spells BTC price…

These 10 Bitcoin price indicators say BTC is…
Bitcoin (BTC) is a firm “buy” according to a range of on-chain indicators that are flashing bullish this week. Collected by on-chain monitoring resource CryptoQuant, a total of ten indicators are currently telling investors to…

Privacy Startup Nym Will Pay You in Bitcoin…
Nym now allows bitcoin transactions and has an incentive program for people running its nodes. It is also enabling plugins that will allow users to plug in wallets and applications to run their traffic through…

Structural Issues May Be Causing BitMEX’s Low Bitcoin…
BitMEX may be one of the largest crypto derivatives platforms, but it offers the lowest return on bitcoin “cash and carry” trades. Currently, the return offered by Seychelles-based BitMEX on a three-month basis is 2.71%…

First Mover: Bitcoin Acts Like a Tech Stock…
You’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily markets newsletter. Assembled by the CoinDesk Markets Team and edited by Bradley Keoun, First Mover starts your day with the most up-to-date sentiment around crypto markets, which of course never…

Bitcoin, Mescaline and Parallel Worlds
Leah Callon-Butler, a CoinDesk columnist, is the director of Emfarsis, a consulting firm focused on the role of technology in advancing economic development in Asia. Have you ever asked a fellow Bitcoiner about the time…

Crypto Investors Have Ignored Three Straight 51% Attacks…
Despite three “51% attacks” in a month, Ethereum Classic’s price has demonstrated strong resilience. Though down a bit for the past month, its persistence may indicate that security is not a top priority for investors…

Bitcoin options data shows traders anticipate BTC price…
Market data from Skew shows investors in the Bitcoin (BTC) options market are cautiously bearish in the short term as of Sep. 8. The shift in sentiment comes after BTC’s abrupt 17% drop in seven…

Crypto Long & Short: What Investors Get Wrong…
In a week in which we are yet again reminded how sharply sentiment can shift in crypto asset markets, it’s appropriate to look at the role volatility plays in our narratives, our portfolios and our psyches. …

For DeFi to Grow, CeFi Must Embrace It
William Mougayar is the author of “The Business Blockchain,” producer of the Token Summit and a venture investor and adviser. DeFi has grown to a point where its mindshare now far exceeds its relatively small…

Bitcoin drops to $11.1K as USD currency index…
Bitcoin (BTC) fell 5% to retest $11,000 on Sept. 2 as fresh strength in the U.S. dollar currency index appeared to spell trouble. Cryptocurrency market daily snapshot, Sept. 2. Source: Coin360 BTC/USD sees sharp $12,000…

DeFi Flippening Comes to Exchanges as Uniswap Topples…
Trading volumes are surging on Uniswap and other so-called decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, challenging established venues like Coinbase while driving up fees and congestion on the Ethereum blockchain. Uniswap, a semi-automated platform for matching…

Signature Bank Gave Dozens More PPP Loans to…
Signature Bank extended dozens more loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to cryptocurrency businesses than was previously reported. Around $20 million of the $1.9 billion in PPP loans the bank extended was given…

Meet Torus, the One-Click Blockchain Wallet Trying to…
People may like the idea of blockchains and web 3.0, but they tend to hit an immediate obstacle in the form of private cryptographic keys and mnemonic seed phrases that cannot be lost, forgotten or…

Maria Bustillos on Tokenizing Journalism, the Death of…
Maria Bustillos, founding editor of the digital magazine Popula, is also one of the founding members of Brick House, an umbrella of independent publishers operating under a collectivist business model. An earlier supporter, and benefactor,…

Mr. Powell, If You Want Higher Inflation, Give…
Frances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” explains how modern money creation and quantitative easing work, and advocates…

Fed Chair Powell’s Flexible Inflation Views Were Already…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell did not raise many eyebrows Thursday morning when he announced the U.S. central bank would encourage some periods of inflation above its 2% target in certain circumstances to boost the…

Binance’s Bitcoin ‘Bid-Ask Spreads’ Tighten as Cryptocurrency Markets…
Getting in and out of a large bitcoin trade on cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance or BitMEX isn’t costing as much as it used to. That might be a healthy sign that digital-asset markets are maturing. …

YouTube’s Whac-a-Mole Approach to Crypto Scam Ads Remains…
YouTube has long struggled with disinformation, misleading content and outright scams on its site. Despite lawsuits and Google’s own ad policies, cryptocurrency scam ads are still making it through the gates and circulating for days. …

Bakkt Futures Volume Up on Institutional Trading; Its…
Growing institutional interest is helping to drive a recent spike in volume on Bakkt, according to its president, Adam White. But the U.S.-regulated crypto derivatives exchange is holding out hope its dormant options platform will…

Commentary: Fed Chair Jerome Powell Details Inflation Target…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell explains the U.S. central bank’s economic approach, including how it will address its previous 2% inflation goal over the next decade. CoinDesk’s First Mover Editor, Bradley Keoun, has already laid…

Is This the Blockchain Firm That Will Get…
Concordium, an ambitious project whose founders have close links to companies including Volvo, IKEA, Saxo Bank and Nasdaq, is looking to shake up the seemingly glacial world of enterprise blockchain. The most striking thing about…

How the Battle for Thailand Is Being Fought…
Thailand’s protests highlight the vulnerabilities of major social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Thai residents began protesting the nation’s military regime earlier this year, giving voice to frustrations that have been building since a…

ConsenSys Acquires JPMorgan’s Quorum Blockchain
Quorum, the enterprise blockchain platform developed by mega-bank JPMorgan Chase, is being acquired by ConsenSys, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Ethereum venture studio. Additionally, JPMorgan has made an undisclosed strategic investment in ConsenSys, the companies said in…

ConsenSys Acquires JP Morgan’s Quorum Blockchain
Quorum, the enterprise blockchain platform developed by mega-bank JPMorgan Chase, is being acquired by ConsenSys, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Ethereum venture studio. Additionally, JPMorgan has made an undisclosed strategic investment in ConsenSys, the companies said in…

Historical Cycles Suggest Bitcoin Will Reach for New…
Analysts are widely growing bullish on Bitcoin’s mid-term outlook as the cryptocurrency continues consolidating within the upper-$11,000 region. After a bout of slight weakness last week, BTC is beginning to express signs of strength as…

No Collateral Required: How Aave Brought Unsecured Borrowing…
Unsecured borrowing has come to decentralized finance (DeFi). Aave, a DeFi money market that allows users to earn interest on cryptocurrency and borrow against it, introduced credit delegation in early July. This service allows someone…

An AWS Virtual Machine Is Infected With Mining…
A cybersecurity firm has unearthed a monero mining script embedded in a public instance of an Amazon Web Service (AWS) virtual machine. Now the firm is raising the question: How many other community Amazon Machine…

Bitcoin Has Lost Its Way: Here’s How to…
Rachel-Rose O’Leary is a cryptocurrency writer and trainee C++ developer at PolyTech. Currently a contributor to CoinDesk and the Defiant newsletter, she has written about cryptocurrency since 2015. She holds an MA in digital art…

Bitcoin ‘Black Thursday’ Repeat Unlikely as Exchanges Have…
As Bitcoin (BTC) price pulled back below $12,000, some investors began to worry that another crypto market crash like one that occurred on March 11 would occur. However, data from CryptoQuant, an on-chain analysis firm,…

Stablecoin Demand May Drop if Traders Abandon Bitcoin…
Institutional demand for stablecoins may cool because yield on “carry trades” has been cut in half since Monday. The annualized rolling one-month futures basis shot as high as 28% at the start of the week…

Why the Decentralized Web’s Development Is Unstoppable
Steven McKie is a founding partner and managing director at Amentum Capital, developer on HandyMiner and HandyBrowser for Handshake and host of the BlockChannel podcast. A version of this article first appeared on Medium. The…

Blockchain Bites: Hashrates Drop, Bitcoiners Hodl and an…
Floods are dampening bitcoin mining hashrates, Ethereum Classic may be thrown off its most popular exchange and bitcoin is moving off exchanges. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain…

OKEx Mulls ETC Delisting After Losses From Two…
OKEx has confirmed a loss of approximately $5.6 million in Ethereum Classic (ETC) from two recent 51% attacks and is considering removing ETC from its exchanges. Yet, as the cryptocurrency exchange with the highest trading…

Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin on DeFi and DeFi on…
More bitcoins were tokenized than mined this Sunday, decentralized finance is coming to the Bitcoin system and a former Prudential Securities CEO thinks crypto is a safe bet. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most…

Litecoin Gets Bullish Speculation, at Last, as Upgrade…
The cryptocurrency litecoin is often referred to as the silver to bitcoin’s gold. This year, litecoin investors might have been better off staying in the analog world: While bitcoin has gained twice as much as…

The US Dollar is “Ready to Break Down”…
As Bitcoin continues establishing its position as a major asset on the global stage, its correlation to other markets has been shifting. Although it was strikingly correlated to the stock market in late-February and early-March,…

Blockchain Bites: Coinbase’s Loans, Ethereum’s Fees, YAM’s Bug
Ethereum users are paying through the nose while miners profit. Coinbase is offering bitcoin-backed loans and nearly a quarter of the Tor Network may be compromised by a crypto-loving scammer. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily…

4 Myths About CBDCs Debunked
Marcelo M. Prates is a lawyer at the Central Bank of Brazil and holds a doctorate from Duke University School of Law. The views and opinions expressed here are his. Although the terminology of central-bank…

First Mover: Ethereum Faces Inflation Problem as Gas…
Congestion is building on the Ethereum blockchain, the second-largest blockchain, thanks to the recent popularity of dollar-linked “stablecoins” and “decentralized finance” applications like Compound. And now fees to process transactions, which escalate when congestion is high…

First Mover: How a DeFi Trader Made an…
In digital-asset markets, stablecoins like tether and USDC are supposed to represent $1 of value. But their prices often fluctuate on the pubescent trading platforms of decentralized finance, or DeFi. So cryptocurrency traders are now…

How Much Ether Is Out There? Ethereum Developers…
Ethereum and Bitcoin advocates have engaged in spirited Twitter exchange since Friday to answer an ostensibly simple question: What’s the total supply of ether? It’s not quite clear where the question originated. But providing one…

Some Traders Now Taking Bets Ether Will Break…
Deribit has started listing ether (ETH) options with strikes above $1,000, and some traders are now betting the cryptocurrency will reach that price by year’s end. Over 3,470 contracts – worth $1.3 million – of…

Blockchain Bites: MicroStrategy’s $250M Bitcoin Bet, India Booms,…
MicroStrategy bets $250 million on bitcoin’s safe haven thesis. Indian crypto is booming. And David Marcus has a new role at Facebook. Top shelf Banks buying“Major U.S. banks might be willing to support cryptocurrency services…

First Mover: After Falling 65% This Year in…
Imagine a future where bitcoin has taken over from the U.S. dollar as the world’s de facto reserve currency. Assuming bitcoin’s notorious price volatility continued to that day, major currencies would be considered volatile assets.…

First Mover: Bitcoin Hits $12K as Trump Orders…
Bitcoin climbed above $12,000 early Monday, before dipping once more, as traders weighed U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to provide emergency aid amid new signs that the labor market recovery is stalling. The oldest and largest…

Bitcoin Price Tackles $12,000 After Breaking Through a…
Within the last hour Bitcoin (BTC) price pushed through the $11,800 resistance and finally made its way back above $12,000. Crypto market daily price chart. Source: Coin360 The sharp upside move came after a relatively…

Crypto Long & Short: 51% Attacks and Open-Source…
Human ingenuity finds a way around limitations. Sometimes these limitations are obstacles in the way of progress, and creative thinking comes up with new paths. Sometimes these limitations are a lack of knowledge, and experimentation…

First Mover: Kyber CEO Predicts 2020 Transactions at…
The fast-growing realm of decentralized finance, known as DeFi, has produced some of the year’s richest returns for cryptocurrency investors, from Compound’s COMP tokens to Chainlink’s LINK. So it may come as little surprise that the…

First Mover: Bitcoin Rises More in One Day…
Bitcoin prices surged 5% on Wednesday, outpacing stocks and gold amid calls for more government stimulus, as the economic toll of the coronavirus mounts. The oldest and largest cryptocurrency rose to $11,755. The price is…

China’s Open Source Development Has Lessons for the…
Lex Sokolin, a CoinDesk columnist, is Global Fintech co-head at ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based blockchain software company. The following is adapted from his Fintech Blueprint newsletter. The news cycle is obsessed with a global technology competition between…

Two Reasons Crypto’s Bull Market Is Coming
Anil Lulla is the co-founder and COO of Delphi Digital, a research firm dedicated to advancing the development of the crypto market. In the past few months at least four crypto hedge funds have shuttered.…

First Mover: As Fed Nears Inflation Rubicon, Analysts…
The Federal Reserve appears ready to pursue yet another untested strategy that could ultimately boost inflation – and possibly prices for bitcoin. The Fed is “preparing to effectively abandon its strategy of pre-emptively lifting interest rates to…

Blockchain Bites: Hedge Fund Down, Banana Bets and…
Another crypto hedge fund is winding down, Huobi launched a new unit to invest in DeFi and the Twitter hacker is reportedly a bitcoin millionaire. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal…

Zephyr Teachout: Take Back the Economy From Economists
When I answer the phone, Zephyr Teachout quickly explains our call might be shorter than planned. Both she and I are at the whim of her two-year-old toddler, who is sleeping and could wake at…

Bitcoin Price Fills New Futures Gap as Bullish…
Bitcoin (BTC) rose to fill a significant gap in its price history on Aug. 3 as bulls remained in control and took BTC/USD towards $12,000. Data from price charts including Coin360 showed the largest cryptocurrency…

Officials Arrest 3 Allegedly Behind Twitter Hack
The FBI and local officials have arrested three individuals who allegedly committed the largest hack in Twitter’s history. Florida resident Graham Clark was arrested Friday morning, according to Florida news channel WFLA. State Attorney Andrew…

Suspected Twitter Hacker Arrested in Florida
The FBI has arrested an individual allegedly behind the largest hack in Twitter’s history. Florida resident Graham Clark was arrested Friday morning, according to Florida news channel WFLA. State Attorney Andrew Warren filed 30 felony…

First Mover: Chainlink’s Soaring Token Shows Lucrative ‘Oracle’…
Chainlink’s LINK tokens have quadrupled in price this year to become one of the biggest success stories this year in cryptocurrency markets. The project’s market capitalization, now the 12th highest among all digital assets at…

Ethereum 2.0: Closer Than Ever, Still Plenty of…
“Though now evolved in many ways,” Gavin Wood wrote in Ethereum’s 2015 yellow paper, “the key functionality of a blockchain with a Turing-complete language and an effectively unlimited inter-transaction storage capability remains unchanged.” Five years…

Ethereum History in 5 Charts
Five years ago this week, the first general-purpose blockchain went live on mainnet. Ethereum paved the way for a whole new use case for blockchain technology untethered from Bitcoin’s original vision as electronic cash. CoinDesk…

Audius Rallies EDM Artists, Crypto VCs to Back…
Music is back on the blockchain. Audius, a streaming service that connects music fans directly with artists, has raised $3.1 million in a strategic round co-led by Multicoin Capital and Blockchange Ventures, with participation from…

First Mover: Sleepy Fed Meeting Belies Tense Economic…
After a two-day closed-door meeting this week, the Federal Reserve issued a six-paragraph statement on Wednesday and held an hour-long press conference. None of that was news, of course, and neither was anything else emanating…

Why DeFi on Ethereum Is Like Algorithmic Trading…
Mona El Isa would never go back to traditional finance. The former Goldman Sachs vice president developed the Melon protocol, a vehicle for creating Ethereum-based hedge funds without having to spend the tens of thousands…

Proof-of-Stake Chains Team Up to Prove DeFi Is…
Liquidity mining is coming to proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains. Anchor, the new decentralized finance (DeFi) platform from Terra, Cosmos, Web3 Foundation and Solana, is being designed to launch with a governance-token reward. Version 1 is going…

Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s New ETP, Ethereum’s ‘Woodstock Moment’…
A crypto hedge fund is folding, Silvergate Bank’s bitcoin-collateralized loans surged this quarter and bitcoin futures markets record triple-digit growth. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto…

First Mover: The Dollar Drop May Have Helped…
As the U.S. dollar’s value slides, prices are suddenly rising for just about everything priced in dollars. That includes bitcoin, which shot up some 13% on Monday for its biggest gain in almost three months. Prices…