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First Mover: Buying Bitcoin's Dip, Betting Against Tether and Weighing the Jobs Report

Crypto traders appeared to be buying the dip after Thursday's 11% plunge. ALSO: There's a contract for that: How to hedge Tether's credit risk.

There's now a credit-default swap contract on Tether, allowing traders to bet on the credit risk inherent in the dollar-linked stablecoin. (Thomas Rowlandson/Metropolitan Museum of Art, modified by CoinDesk)

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V-Shaped Recovery From Bitcoin's Biggest Drop Since March Unlikely, Say Analysts

Despite a slight bounce Friday morning, some analysts don't expect bitcoin to chart a quick recovery from the double-digit price drop over the last two days.

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3 Reasons Bitcoin Just Tanked Below $11K for First Time in a Month

Cryptocurrency analysts attributed the drop to a combination of risk-off sentiment in traditional markets, DeFi exhaustion and miner selling.

Bitcoin price chart versus ether and the S&P 500. (TradingView)

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Bitcoin Plunges $403 in 1 Hour to Lowest in a Month

The price plunge came after reports traders were selling an elevated level of bitcoin to exchanges for potential liquidation.

Bitcoin hourly price chart. (TradingView)

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Bitcoin Risks Deeper Price Pullback as Exchange Inflows Spike

Wednesday saw a flurry of deposits onto exchanges, indicating some investors are trying to offload their bitcoin. That could further propel prices downwards.

Bitcoin prices Sept. 1-3 (CoinDesk BPI)

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Bitcoin Price Drops 4% After Latest Rejection at $12K Resistance

Bitcoin fell by $400 Wednesday morning, having failed once more to move above a long-held resistance level.

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Bitcoin Nears $12K as Dollar Declines to 29-Month Low

Sell-off in the U.S. dollar and ether's price rally power gains in bitcoin.

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Ether Price Hits 2-Year High

The two-year high was reached alongside a drop in the number of coins held in exchange addresses.

Ether prices since mid-June (CoinDesk)

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US Stocks Closing on Bigger August Gain Than Bitcoin

While bitcoin is eyeing an August gain for the first time in three years, the cryptocurrency is still lagging U.S. stocks over the month.

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First Mover: Binance's Shrinking Trading Spreads and Bitcoin's Jackson Hole Fizzle

Traders are getting better fills due to shrinking bid-ask spreads on Binance and other cryptocurrency exchanges. It's a sign of a healthy market.

Shrinking Binance bid-offer spreads might reveal crypto markets maturing. (Rednuht/Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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