Crypto News Roundup for Aug. 18, 2021

With crypto markets in the red and a look at New York's likely next Mayor of "the Bitcoins," CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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With crypto markets in the red and a look at New York's likely next Mayor of "the Bitcoins," CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Celo.

Today's Stories:

Bitcoin Holds Support Near $43K as Rally Pauses

Bitcoin Price Rebounds After Testing Lower Supports Near $44K As Ether Booms

Investors turn to defensive stocks ahead of Fed minutes

Stocks Drop, Dollar Gains as Fed Minutes in Focus: Markets Wrap

Tencent profits jump 29% despite China’s regulatory crackdown

Chinese start-ups caught in US listings limbo

The show must go on: Broadway comes back with new investors, bold plans

Target sales beat as shoppers go back to stores; online buying slows

Austin Is Capital of Homes Selling at Super Premiums

'Berserk' UK house pricesrise at fastest rate since 2004

Crypto Adoption Shifts to Emerging Markets as China, US Drop in Chainalysis Global Rankings

ETC Group to List Crypto ETPs on Vienna Stock Exchange

Jamaica's Central Bank Says Court Order Required to Track CBDC Transactions

Crypto Asset-Management Market Will Approach Over $9B by 2030: Study

Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari on Crypto Market: 'Thousands of Garbage Coins'

White Hats Just Defused a Potential $350M Heist on SushiSwap

TikTok Picks Streaming Service Audius to Power New 'Sounds' Library

NFT Trading Surges 8X as Penguins and Apes Drive New Boom

Featured Story: Eric Adams, Mayor of All the Bitcoins | David Z. Morris

This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust.

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.