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Bitcoin Struggles at $60K Resistance; Support Above $53K

Short-term downside is likely into the Asia trading day.

Bitcoin four-hour price chart shows short-term resistance levels with RSI in second panel. (Damanick Dantes/CoinDesk, TradingView)

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Junk-Rated El Salvador’s ‘Bitcoin Bonds’ Look Explosive (Think Volcano)

Anyone buying Salvador’s bitcoin-backed bond is betting on the cryptocurrency in a very big way, ignoring the country’s distressed-debt situation, one strategist said.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announces new "bitcoin bonds" at an event on Saturday. (Samson Mow via Twitter)

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Biden to Renominate Powell as Fed Chair and Appoint Brainard as Vice Chair

The president cites Powell’s stewardship of the economy during the pandemic.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaks Wednesday at a virtual press conference. (Federal Reserve, modified by CoinDesk)

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ProShares Bitcoin Futures ETF Wins ‘First Mover Advantage’ as VanEck Launch Falls Flat

The ProShares ETF has $1,4 billion in assets, compared with $8.7 million for the VanEck fund.

Pixabay (Modified by CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Long-Term Uptrend Intact; Support Around $53K-$56K

Momentum is still positive on a weekly basis, which is consistent with a bullish uptrend.

Bitcoin weekly price chart shows long-term uptrend with positive momentum in first panel and RSI declining from overbought levels in lower panel.

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First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Drops Below $60K Amid Broad Sell-Off in Crypto Markets

Traders could not definitively explain bitcoin’s decline; ether falls under $4,000 for the first time since late October.

Longer-term bitcoin price chart shows this week's big dropoff. See the red candle on the right. (CoinDesk)

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Crypto.com’s CRO Token Soars on Naming Deal for LA’s Staples Center

Amid this year’s broad gains in cryptocurrencies, CRO coin’s price hadn’t really stood out – until now.

CRO was flying in digital-asset markets Wednesday. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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Avalanche’s AVAX Token Surges to All-Time High After Deloitte Deal, Defying Crypto Trend

The token is up 85% in the past 30 days, pushing its market capitalization to $23 billion.

(Unsplash/Robert Bye)

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VanEck Bitcoin Futures ETF Finds Cool Reception

The new investment vehicle, trading under the stock ticker XBTF, jumped into the competition with a lower fee than two similar funds launched last month. But its first-day trading volume was still comparatively anemic.

(Metropolitan Museum of Art, modified by CoinDesk)

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VanEck to Launch Bitcoin Futures ETF ‘XBTF’ Next Week After SEC Rejects Spot Offering

Chicago-based CBOE exchange says in website posting that the VanEck Bitcoin Strategy ETF will start trading Tuesday under the ticker symbol “XBTF.”

After weeks of delays, the VanEck Bitcoin Strategy ETF is ready to launch. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)