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CoinDesk’s Nikhilesh De weighs in on Silvergate Bank confirming Monday it’s purchasing the technology and other assets from Diem, the stablecoin project from Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) announced as Libra in June 2019.

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Will Peck, head of digital assets at WisdomTree, discusses his optimistic and bullish outlook for bitcoin. “It’s an adoption game,” Peck said. “Long-term, if you’re talking about continued adoption of an asset class and a technology … you’d see continued growth in it going forward.”

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Clara Medalie, research director at crypto data provider Kaiko, shares insights into bitcoin's key technical indicators she's interested in: bid-ask spreads for BTC/ETH have widened in January amid high volatility and fragile risk sentiment; BTC's correlation with bonds and gold has been negative for months while its correlation with Nasdaq recently hit 17-month highs; BTC's January spot volume reached 6-month lows.

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Bitcoin’s long-term bullish outlook is in danger of being invalidated on technical charts as BTC reels under selling pressure, stemming from adverse macro factors. Its monthly moving average convergence divergence (MACD) histogram has crossed below zero, a so-called sell signal, indicating a bullish-to-bearish trend change on the longer duration price chart.

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Texas Bitcoin Foundation launched last week to lead original research and educate the public about bitcoin’s social and economic impacts. Executive Director Natalie Smolenski shares insights into the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and what it’s found about bitcoin so far. Plus, the state of crypto in Texas.

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The U.S. Treasury Department revealed a controversial rule enforcing know-your-customer (KYC) rules on unhosted or self-hosted crypto wallets might be considered in its semiannual agenda of regulations, set to be formally published in the Federal Register on Jan. 31. The rule was first proposed in late 2020 by U.S. money-laundering watchdog FinCEN. "The Hash" squad discusses the latest in crypto regulation threatening user privacy.

31 janv. 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX raised $400 million in a Series C funding round, valuing the crypto exchange at a total $32 billion valuation. It now has about the same market cap as Germany’s Deutsche Börse and more than the Nasdaq exchange or Twitter. “The Hash” hosts discuss what’s next for FTX.

31 janv. 2022

Phantom, the company building Solana’s top crypto wallet, is now worth $1.2 billion following a $109 million Series B raise led by crypto venture firm Paradigm. This comes as Phantom debuted its iOS app Monday, all part of a move to compete with Metamask, the popular wallet owned by ConsenSys. "The Hash" panel discusses what this means for Solana-based decentralized finance.

31 janv. 2022

Meta (formerly Facebook) is joining the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a consortium of tech and crypto companies led by Jack Dorsey’s payments company, Block (formerly Square). This comes as Meta winds down its Diem project, reportedly selling its intellectual property to Silvergate Bank for $200 million to pay back investors.

31 janv. 2022

Taiwan's conservative outlook and strict regulatory environment has limited the country from being a regional financial hub like neighbors Hong Kong and Singapore. Wayne Huang, CEO of Taipei-based TradeTech fintech, discusses how his firm plans to ​step in to build bridges between countries for business remittances via stablecoins. Plus, insights into the larger crypto environment in Taiwan, the impact of China's crypto crackdown, and concerns of US regulations.

31 janv. 2022