Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team based in Mumbai, holds a masters degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) member. Omkar previously worked at FXStreet, writing research on currency markets and as fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desk at Mumbai-based brokerage houses. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.

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As Bitcoin Surges, Google Searches Suggest Little FOMO Among Retail Investors

Web search data suggests popular interest in bitcoin remains at normal levels, despite a sharp price rally to near $16,000.

Bitcoin has rallied sharply over this week

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Bitcoin Breaks $15K as Investor Numbers Peak

Bitcoin's rally is still going as investors continue to accumulate the cryptocurrency, ignoring overbought signals on technical indicators.

One-year chart of bitcoin prices, Nov. 5, 2019 to Nov. 5, 2020.

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Someone Just Paid a $9,000 Fee for a $120 DeFi Transaction

A Reddit user said they accidentally paid a fee 80 times the transaction value while executing a swap on Uniswap.

ethereum ether token

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Bitcoin Jumps Above $14.5K, Taking 2020 Gains to Over 100%

Bitcoin's price jumped to a 33-month high of $14,558 soon before press time, taking the year-to-date gains to 101%.

Bitcoin prices since Jan. 1 2020

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First Mover: Just Another Day for Bitcoin as US Election Slides Into Discord, Division

Prediction markets show Trump losing, though bitcoin bulls didn't get Democratic "blue wave" that might have brought speedy stimulus package.

A waitress at a local bar in Beijing watches as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks via television early Wednesday.

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Binance Recovers $344K From Scam DeFi Project Launched on Its Platform

Having raised the funds at launch on Binance Smart Chain in October, the operator fled with users' cryptocurrency "within an hour," Binance said.

Binance Logo.

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Nearly $1B in Bitcoin Moves From Wallet Linked to Silk Road

A wallet possibly belonging to early dark net market Silk Road moved almost $1 billion worth of bitcoin early on Wednesday.

Convicted Silk Road operator Ross William Ulbricht

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Bitcoin Dips as Trump Threatens to Stop Vote Counting

Bitcoin fell after President Trump alleged "fraud” in the presidential election and pledged to stop vote counting.

U.S. President Donald Trump

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Ethereum Fees Plummeted 65% in October Following DeFi Volumes Back to Earth

Miners' income from processing transactions on the Ethereum blockchain more than halved in October as the mania for DeFi cooled.

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First Mover: 11 Election Talking Points on Bitcoin as TRUMP Futures Point to Loss

From a look back to bitcoin's price reaction in November 2016 to the ramifications of a "blue wave" (or red), here's how to play the election.

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