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Bitcoin Jumps Briefly After Fed Minutes Indicate Officials Favor Slower Rate Hikes
Bitcoin (BTC) briefly jumped about 1% after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s November meeting showed that the majority of central bankers prefer a slower pace of rate hikes going forward. Brett Sifling, director of Get Invested at Gerber Kawasaki, discusses his crypto markets analysis amid continued macro headwinds. Plus, tips for surviving crypto winter.

Institutions Take Bearish Stance on Bitcoin, Create Arbitrage Opportunity
Institutions and multi-asset investors returned to the crypto market last week, but not in a way the bulls would have liked to see. CoinDesk's Lawrence Lewitinn presents the "Chart of the Day."

Sam Bankman-Fried Scrutiny Ramps Up; Bitcoin Wallet of Failed BTC-e Exchange Wakes Up
Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland they want Sam Bankman-Fried and others investigated for FTX's collapse. Plus, a crypto wallet linked to the failed BTC-e exchange sent a total of 10,000 bitcoins to two unidentified recipients, its largest transaction since August 2017.

New York's Governor Signs 2-Year Ban on New Proof-of-Work Mining
New York's Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law Tuesday a two-year moratorium on new permits for proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrency mining. "The Hash" panel discusses the latest in crypto regulation and what this means for the mining community.

El Salvador Is Drafting Digital Securities Bill, Paving Way for Bitcoin Bonds
El Salvador's national assembly is considering a draft bill to regulate digital securities, indicating the country is going ahead with plans to issue bitcoin-backed bonds. "The Hash" panel discusses the latest in President Nayib Bukele's bitcoin experiment.

Litecoin Surges to 6-Month High Ahead of Mining Reward Halving
Litecoin (LTC) is surging eight months ahead of its third mining reward halving, which will cut LTC's pace of supply expansion by 50%. "The Hash" panel discusses what this means for LTC and the wider crypto markets amid the FTX gloom.

Binance.US Leans Into National Politics With New Campaign PAC
Binance.US is stepping into national politics with its own political action committee (PAC), the Binance.US Innovation PAC. CoinDesk Global Policy & Regulation Managing Editor Nikhilesh De discusses what this means for crypto's role in politics as FTX and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried vanish from U.S. policy circles.

Bitcoin Below $10K Is Where You Would Really Have Problems: Strategist
Fairlead Strategies founder and Managing Partner Katie Stockton breaks down where bitcoin (BTC) finds its price bottom, emphasizing the $10,000 key psychological level.

FTX Fallout: Incoming Kraken CEO on Trust for Centralized Exchanges
Following the downfall of the FTX empire, why should retail investors trust other centralized exchanges? "Our security team is larger than the entirety of FTX," says Dave Ripley, incoming CEO of Kraken. He discusses the "silver lining" coming out of the FTX "tragedy."

FTX Fallout: One Bad Apple?
Host Joel Flynn discusses who is to blame for the FTX fallout. That story and other news shaping the cryptocurrency world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."
