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Bitcoin News Roundup for April 22, 2020

Bitcoin reacts to stimulus packages and the UK bails out big tech. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast.

By John Biggs, Adam B. Levine

Updated Sep 14, 2021, 8:31 a.m. Published Apr 22, 2020, 4:00 p.m.

Bitcoin reacts to stimulus packages and the U.K. bails out Big Tech. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast.

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Today's stories:

Bitcoin Approaches $7K as US Passes New $480B Stimulus Package

Everledger Offers Diamond Industry Blockchain-Based Carbon Offsetting

UK's Tech Bailout Could Help Blockchain Devs Weather COVID-19 Shutdown

Ripple Sues YouTube for Allowing 'Scams' That Promise Free XRP

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John Biggs

John Biggs is an entrepreneur, consultant, writer, and maker. He spent fifteen years as an editor for Gizmodo, CrunchGear, and TechCrunch and has a deep background in hardware startups, 3D printing, and blockchain. His work has appeared in Men’s Health, Wired, and the New York Times. He runs the Technotopia podcast about a better future. He has written five books including the best book on blogging, Bloggers Boot Camp, and a book about the most expensive timepiece ever made, Marie Antoinette’s Watch. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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.