First Mover Americas: BTC Peeps Above $69K as Macro Favors Bulls The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Oct. 21, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Bitcoin Prices See Wild Trading as Trump Plans to Establish BTC as U.S. Strategic Asset BTC jumped above $69,000 earlier Saturday on hopes Trump would announce buying the asset if elected president.

Ether’s BTC-Denominated Price Flirts With 9-Year-Long Trendline Support: Technical Analysis The trendline connecting 2016 and 2017 lows has consistently offered support since January.

Meme Coins Outperform BTC, ETH and SOL as Traders Rotate Holdings The $53 billion meme coin sector rose by more than 12% on Tuesday with the likes of pepe (PEPE) and dogwifhat (WIF) surging by 22% and 25% respectively, data from CoinGecko shows.

First Mover Americas: BTC Retreats From $60K The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for July 12, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

First Mover Americas: BTC Rebounds to $57K The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for July 8, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

U.S. Crypto Stocks Sink in Pre-Market Trading as BTC Slumps Software company MicroStrategy, which holds over 210,000 BTC, and bitcoin miner Hut 8 led declines as bitcoin dropped to the lowest level since late February.

TradFi Liquidity Stress Indicator Surges. What Does It Mean for BTC? The secured overnight financing rate surged Monday, indicating liquidity stress in the U.S. banking system.

Pre-ETF Ether Options Trend Mirrors BTC Except for One Key Difference

Long Dormant Whale Sends $61M BTC to Coinbase, OnChain Data Shows The so-called old hands have been selling coins this quarter, adding to bearish pressures in the market.

First Mover Americas: BTC’s Recovery Stalls as Dollar Rallies The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for June 27, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Mt. Gox Redemption Fears ‘Overblown’ Say Traders as $10B BTC Holdings Draw Concerns The defunct crypto exchange’s trustees said Monday they are preparing to start distributing bitcoin (BTC) stolen from clients in a 2014 hack in the first week of July.

First Mover Americas: Mt. Gox Repayments Worsen BTC Woes The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for June 24, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Mt. Gox to Begin Repayments in July; BTC Slides Under $61K The defunct crypto exchange is supposed to return over 140,000 bitcoin to victims of the 2014 hack.

Standard Chartered Is Building a Spot BTC, ETH Trading Desk: Bloomberg Standard Chartered would become one of the first global banks to enter spot cryptocurrency trading.

Mexican Cartels Using BTC, ETH, USDT, Other Tokens to Buy Fentanyl Ingredients: U.S. Criminal organizations in Mexico have been using several popular digital assets to buy the materials needed to make the drug fentanyl, according to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which cited the use of bitcoin and other tokens in a Thursday advisory.

XRP, LINK, ETH Stand Out Relative to BTC in Sector Rotation Analysis, DOGE Struggles Fairlead’s 12-week relative rotation graph shows signs of green shoots in XRP, LINK, ETH.

Bitcoin Miners Cash in on BTC Rally as Exchange Transfers Hit Two-Month High Transfers from bitcoin {{BTC}} mining pools to exchanges reached a two-month high this week as BTC hovered around its local high $70,000.

U.S. CPI and Fed Meeting: Things to Watch Out as BTC Nurses Losses BTC has come under pressure in the lead up to the key events that could influence Fed rate cut expectations.

Metaplanet Discloses $1.6M BTC Purchase; Shares Jump 10% Japanese investment firm Metaplanet has disclosed an additional bitcoin {{BTC}} purchase worth 250 million yen ($1.58 million), taking its total holdings up to 141 BTC ($9.4 million).