Bitcoin News Roundup for Jan. 14, 2021

With bitcoin bouncing back up and approval of the first federally chartered crypto bank, CoinDesk’s Market’s Daily is back with the latest crypto news roundup.

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With bitcoin bouncing back up and approval of the first federally chartered crypto bank, CoinDesk’s Market’s Daily is back with the latest crypto news roundup.

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This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

Today's stories:

Bitcoin Bounces as Options Market Sees 20% Chance of $50K at Month's End

While a 31% rally to $50,000 in two weeks may be challenging to envision, it is far from impossible, given bitcoin's prior rallies.

UK Man Offers Council $72M if He Finds Discarded Bitcoin Trove at Landfill

The town of Newport in Wales could get a hefty reward if the treasure is found in the trash.

Anchorage Becomes First OCC-Approved National Crypto Bank

The crypto industry has its first federally chartered bank: Anchorage.

Ex-Ripple CTO Can't Remember Password to Access $240M in Bitcoin

Just call it Schrödinger's bitcoin.

HOSTS

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.