Markets Daily Crypto Roundup

Bitcoin News Roundup for Nov. 24, 2020

With BTC breaking $19K and Ethereum 2.0 ready to launch, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!

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With BTC breaking $19K and Ethereum 2.0 ready to launch, 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:

Bitcoin Breaks $19K, New All-Time High Seems Imminent

Bitcoin, the world's No. 1 cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has breached the $19,000 level.

XRP Price Surges to 2-Year High as Airdrop Frenzy Builds

The December airdrop of 45 billion spark tokens may be fueling XRP's rapid climb to two-year highs, say analysts.

Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Has Enough Funds to Launch

The smart contract required for triggering Ethereum 2.0 has enough funds to begin activation of its most ambitious upgrade yet.

Gazprombank Switzerland Executes First Bitcoin Trades, Announces Payments Initiative

The regulated Swiss bank said it is working on developing a standard for cryptocurrency payments between members of the OpenVASP association.

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