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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Regains $10.6K; High-Balance Ether Addresses Decline

Bitcoin’s price is rebounding from a sell-off Tuesday while large ether holders are making moves.

CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

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As DeFi Deflates, Ethereum Users Get Reprieve From Soaring Fees, Congestion

The popularity of decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges had backed up the Ethereum blockchain, raising questions about its ability to scale.

Reduced traffic from decentrentralized exchanges has relieved congestion on the Ethereum blockchain.

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How Bitcoin Could Become the Reserve Asset for DeFi, Feat. Qiao Wang

Crypto trader, analyst and operator Qiao Wang looks at bitcoin’s macro resilience and why DeFi is here to stay.

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Bitcoin Correlations Depend on What Phase It Is In

Bitcoin's correlations with gold and the stock market appears contradictory on the surface. There are deeper machinations at work.

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First Mover: Bitcoin Steady as Trump Tweets and Neo Takes on Ethereum

Trump's back-and-forth tweets over U.S. stimulus whipsaw bitcoin prices along with traditional markets, and Neo ratchets up competition with Ethereum.

Competition is intense to break the Ethereum blockchain's stronghold on financial applications and DeFi development.

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Analysts Can't Agree on What Prompted Big Spike in New Bitcoin Addresses

New bitcoin addresses have spiked this month, with one industry exec pointing to traders moving funds off the legally troubled BitMEX exchange. Others disagree.

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Bitcoin Trump-Dumps to $10,500; MetaMask Hits 1 Million Users

Bitcoin’s price dipped Tuesday after Pres. Trump rejected the latest stimulus proposal, while a popular Ethereum wallet continues to grow.

CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

Tech

This Self-Sovereign ‘DocuSign’ Uses Bitcoin for Digital Proofs

Woleet provides a digital ID software suite which allows its clients to authenticate documents and signatures using Bitcoin’s blockchain.

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First Mover: Bitcoiners May Not Care if Dollar Keeps Its Reserve Status

What if the dollar keeps its reserve status? PLUS: FCA ban, McAfee arrest, commercial real-estate wipeout.

Just as this chariot carried Julius Caesar's trophy of war, the dollar could retain its reserve-currency status.

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Bitcoin's Options Market Retains Long-Term Bull Bias Despite Sluggish Price

Options market data suggests the longer-term path of least resistance for bitcoin is to the higher side.

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