Sebastian Sinclair

Sebastian Sinclair is the market and news reporter for CoinDesk operating in the South East Asia timezone. He has experience trading in the cryptocurrency markets, providing technical analysis and covering news developments affecting the movements on bitcoin and the industry as a whole. He currently holds no cryptocurrencies.

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Crypto Trading 101: The Moving Average Crossover

Moving average crossovers, one of the simplest traders’ tools, are best suited to trend following and momentum trading.

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Policy

US Regulators Weigh Avenues for Banks to Hold Crypto: Report

Comments from a top U.S. regulator demonstrate crypto’s prominent rise this year and a rush to contain particular aspects of the industry.

Signage hangs outside the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Scoops Up 2.2M Falling Robinhood Shares

The move came as Robinhood shares dropped roughly 8% on Tuesday after the platform said its crypto revenues fell below expectations.

ARK Invest's Cathie Woods. (Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Finance

Blockchain Game Companies Pen Open Letter to Valve: ‘Don’t Ban Web3 Games’

The developer booted the games from its Steam platform last month.

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Finance

DBS Becomes First Southeast Asian Bank to Join Hedera Governing Council

The Singapore lender joins a group that supports Hedera’s Hashgraph distributed ledger technology.

A DBS Bank branch in Singapore (Lauryn Ishak/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

US Treasury to Say SEC Can Regulate Stablecoins: Report

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler wants more authority before Congress works out how best to regulate the cryptocurrencies.

Gary Gensler (Evelyn Hockstein/Getty Images)

Finance

Over 3 Million CoinMarketCap Email Addresses Leaked to Dark Web: Report

The addresses are trading on “hacking forums,” haveibeenpwned reported. CoinMarketCap acknowledges “correlation” with its subscriber base but maintains its servers weren’t breached.

(Davide Baraldi on Unsplash)

Finance

Singaporean Payments Unicorn Nium Launches Crypto-as-a-Service Platform

Nium says its new service will target banks, businesses and neo-financial institutions.

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Finance

Facebook Whistleblower Holds Crypto to Support Herself Financially: Report

Frances Haugen said she was managing financially for the “foreseeable future” because she had bought crypto “at the right time.”

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen appears before the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee. (Matt McClain-Pool/Getty Images)

Markets

Traders Are ‘Apeing’ Into a Sam Altman Crypto Lookalike, Driving Prices Higher

Prices for a completely different Worldcoin have climbed 68.4% over the last 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data.

(Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash)

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