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Bitcoin News Roundup for June 3, 2020

Not so good news for fans of $10K BTC. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

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Bitcoin News Roundup for June 2, 2020

Not so good news for fans of $10K BTC. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace

Bitcoin's Price Drops by 8% in Less Than 5 Minutes

Bitcoin's price fell more than $800 in under five minutes on Tuesday, pushing the broader cryptocurrency market into the red.

Crypto Criminals Have Already Stolen $1.4B in 2020, Says CipherTrace

The figure puts 2020 on track to become the second-costliest year in the history of crypto.

Blockchain Firms Flocked to Hong Kong in 2019: Report

Blockchain firms led the charge of fintech companies that relocated to Hong Kong in 2019.

Media Startup Civil Shuts Down, Team Absorbed Into Decentralized ID Efforts at ConsenSys

Blockchain media startup Civil is shutting down after three years, with its team pivoting to building decentralized identity tools at parent firm ConsenSys.

US Offers $5M Bounty for Arrest of Venezuela's Crypto Chief

The head of Venezuela's state-backed petro cryptocurrency has been added to the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Most Wanted list.

HOST

Adam B. Levine

Adam B. Levine joined CoinDesk in 2019 as the editor of its new audio and podcasts division. Previously, Adam founded the long-running Let's Talk Bitcoin! talk show with co-hosts Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos.

Finding early success with the show, Adam transformed the podcast's homepage into a full newsdesk and publishing platform, founding the LTB Network in January of 2014 to help broaden the conversation with new and different perspectives. In the Spring of that year, he would go on to launch the first and largest tokenized rewards program for creators and their audience. In what many have called an early influential version of "Steemit"; LTBCOIN, which was awarded to both content creators and members of the audience for participation was distributed until the LTBN was acquired by BTC, Inc. in January of 2017.

With the network launched and growing, in late 2014 Adam turned his attention to the practical challenges of administering the tokenized program and founded Tokenly, Inc. There, he led the development of early tokenized vending machines with Swapbot, tokenized identity solution Tokenpass, e-commerce with TokenMarkets.com and media with Token.fm. Adam owns some BTC, ETH and small positions in a number of other tokens.

Adam B. Levine