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Guggenheim's Scott Minerd, Fickle Bitcoin Forecaster, Dies After Heart Attack

Among Wall Street financiers, Minerd was known for his extreme predictions of the largest cryptocurrency's price, often with mixed success.

Scott Minerd in 2021. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Markets

DeFi Project Popsicle’s ICE Token Triples as Controversial Wonderland Founder Returns

The sudden price surge of Popsicle’s ICE native token coincided with the controversial blockchain developer Daniele Sestagalli revealing his return to rebuild the project.

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Markets

Bitcoin Trades Sideways as Stocks Get Pre-Holiday Bounce

The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has been moving sideways in a range between $16,700 and $16,900 in the past 24 hours as traders grappled with an uncertain market outlook for next year.

Price chart shows bitcoin was trading sideways on Wednesday. (CoinDesk)

Policy

EU Rules for Distributed Ledger Financial Trading Finalized Ahead of March Pilot

Requirements to test people's knowledge of distributed technology could deter the average retail investor, some worry.

CoinDesk TV – Consensus: Distributed

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Coinbase Introduces Recovery Tool for Lost ERC-20 Tokens: Report

Users will be able to recover more than 4,000 as-yet unsupported Ethereum-based tokens starting in a few weeks, according to TechCrunch.

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Perplexing Tranquility? Bitcoin's Implied Volatility Hits Lowest Since October 2020

Bitcoin's volatility will continue to drop as the economic backdrop improves and the market becomes resilient to the negative FTX headlines, one observer said.

Una calma inusual está invadiendo al mercado de bitcoin. (Stephanie Klepacki/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin Falls as Federal Reserve Slows Rate Hikes but Stays Hawkish

The U.S. central bank raised its benchmark interest rate to a range of 4.25%-4.5% on Wednesday. Officials now expect the current rate-hiking cycle to peak next year at a "terminal rate" above 5%.

The Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Crypto Market’s Near-Apocalypse in 2022 Turns Zombie Tokens Into Dead Coins

The number of cryptocurrencies has dropped by about 1,000 since February, the biggest-ever decline, according to Statista. Often tokens are removed from pricing sites like CoinGecko because they're no longer trading – even if they still technically exist on the blockchain.

When a zombie token gets removed from a crypto pricing site like CoinGecko, it's considered dead, even if it still technically exists on the blockchain. (Sergey Nikolaev/Unsplash)

Markets

Binance's CZ Welcomes 'Stress Test' as Exchange Resumes USDC Withdrawals

The world's largest crypto exchange by trading volume has endured a wave a withdrawals amid concerns about reserves. Withdrawals of the stablecoin USDC were paused for several hours but have now resumed.

Changpeng Zhao ,CEO of Binance, at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin, Ether Jump After US CPI Report Shows Slower-Than-Expected November Inflation

Crypto traders were monitoring the U.S. government's monthly inflation report for signs of whether the Federal Reserve's monetary-policy tightening this year is helping to slow the pace of consumer price increases.

Ether registró una caída tras los datos de inflación en EE. UU. (Getty Images)