Bitcoin News Roundup for Jan. 12, 2021

January 12, 2021
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With BTC regaining lost ground and a special feature on what long-timers in the crypto industry think about this year’s rally, CoinDesk’s Market’s Daily is back with the latest crypto news roundup.

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Some bitcoin traders are buying bullish call options at $52,000 and higher strike prices.

Trump, COVID-19, massive money printing. Voorhees, Shrem, Wan, Carlson and others on bitcoin’s big boom, and what changed from 2017.

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Hashdex to Launch the Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index ETF

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Bullish Bitcoin Market Easily Digests Spike in Trading Volume

Bitcoin market sentiment appears quite bullish as evidenced from the quick absorption of a huge sell order on crypto exchange OKEx during Asian daytime trading hours on Tuesday.Volume spiked on trades between bitcoin (BTC) and the stablecoin tether (USDT) on the cryptocurrency exchange OKEx between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. UTC, according…

Overstock to Restructure Ex-CEO’s Crypto Dividend to End 6-Month Lockup

news Online retail giant Overstock is to drop trading restrictions for its planned digital asset-based dividend instigated by the e-commerce giant’s former CEO, Patrick Byrne. Before leaving the firm over a scandal involving his affair with a Russian spy, Byrne in July had arranged for Overstock’s next investor dividend to be paid out in a…

Tennis Star Serena Williams Reveals Investment in Coinbase

news Serena Williams, one of the world’s most successful tennis players of all time, has revealed in an Instagram post that she is an investor in cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Williams took to the social media platform late last week to announce her VC firm Serena Ventures – which was secretly founded in 2014 – and listing some…

Back Over $200 Billion: 3 Reasons Crypto Prices Could Be Heading Higher

The cryptocurrency market has been making history for all the wrong reasons as of late, most notably by recently surpassing the plunge of the infamous Dot-Com bubble in the early 2000's. With that said, cryptocurrencies tend to make recoveries when all hope is seemingly lost, and today's price action of the world's second largest cryptocurrency,…

Cumberland Global Head Jason Leung Latest to Leave Crypto Trading Firm

news Jason Leung, global head of Cumberland, the cryptocurrency-focused unit of Chicago-based trading giant DRW, is leaving the firm. He will be replaced by Chris Zuehlke, formerly chief technical officer at Cumberland, who has been employed with DRW for some 15 years. A spokesperson for DRW Holdings told CoinDesk: “We are grateful to Jason for…

Crypto Exchange Seed CX Raises $15 Million in Series B Round

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UN Official: Crypto Makes Policing Child Trafficking ‘Exceptionally Difficult’

news A top United Nations (UN) official said cryptocurrencies are making international efforts to combat terrorist financing, money laundering and cyber-crime “exceptionally difficult.” Neil Walsh, chief of the Cybercrime and Anti-Money Laundering arm of the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime, said that the anonymizing and pseudo-anonymizing attributes of cryptocurrencies provide a “new layer of…

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