Markets Daily Crypto Roundup

Bitcoin News Roundup for Nov. 23, 2020

With BTC heading for a potentially volatile week and XRP hitting 16-month highs, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!

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With BTC heading for a potentially volatile week and XRP hitting 16-month highs, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!

This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com and Nexo.io.

Today's stories:

First Mover: Bitcoin 'Rich List' Grows as Whales HODL and Price Retakes $18K

Bitcoin's "rich list" hits an all-time high alongside the meteoric price rally.

XRP Rises More Than 30% as Altcoins Piggyback on Bitcoin's Wave

The native asset of the XRP ledger has surged to 16-month highs.

China Construction Bank Pulls Planned Listing of Bitcoin-Tradable Bond

The "Big Four" Chinese bank has suspended the listing of a $3 billion bond issuance that was intended to be tradable for bitcoin and U.S. dollars.

China to Hold Second Lottery Trial of the Digital Yuan

A lottery in Suzhou will additionally trial the offline feature of the digital yuan, per a Monday report.

John Lennon's Son Says Bitcoin 'Empowers' People Like Never Before

Sean Ono Lennon praised bitcoin for its ability to help individuals transcend politics and world events.

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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