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Finance

Dreams of Rebooting FTX Face Cold Reality That Its Technology Wasn’t Well-Regarded

Woefully high latency, bugs in the API traders use to interface with FTX and coding mishaps plagued the exchange, according to several former clients who spoke to CoinDesk.

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Markets

Short-Term BTC Holders, Stablecoin Supplies Could Indicate Cryptos' Future Price Direction

The two data points may show whether bitcoin moves higher or declines further in the aftermath of the U.S. central bank's 25 basis point rate increase Wednesday.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Tech

Rapid Bank Runs Reveal Deposits Are Now Magic Internet Money, Too

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the speed of the Silicon Valley Bank run was “very different from what we’ve seen in the past.” However, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she is not considering a "blanket" deposit guarantee.

Internet-era bank runs don't look anything like this. (National Archives via Wikipedia, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Hacker vs. Hacker: North Koreans Attempt to Phish Euler Exploiter of $200M in Crypto, Experts Say

An unlikely exchange played out on the Ethereum blockchain, sparking confusion and alarm.

North Korea's leader is casting a shadow over crypto. (Korea Summit Press Pool/Getty Images)

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Markets

On-Chain Indicator Suggests Bitcoin, Ether Are Trading at a Discount

Traditionally, higher NVT ratios indicate that an asset is becoming more expensive, while lower NVT ratios indicate the opposite.

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Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Trade Lower After Breaching Technical Indicator

The proximity of the breach to the upcoming Federal Reser ve rate decision could stymie activity in the short term. BTC is also showing an increasingly inverse relationship to the U.S. dollar ahead of the announcement

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Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Swing From Cold to Hot in Event-Filled Week

The two largest cryptocurrencies have risen 31% and 26%, respectively, even as bank failures, inflation concerns and ETH selling pressure have roiled traditional asset markets.

Lit Protocol has raised $13 million in a Series A round. (Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Shrug Off U.S. Jobs Data

The two largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization also recently appear to have decoupled from equity indexes.

The price of ether has risen 16% in the past week. (Getty Images)

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Markets

Trading Ranges for Bitcoin, Ether Reflect Diverging Views About the Assets

Bitcoin’s higher low suggests investors in the largest crypto by market value are upbeat, but ether’s increased trading range compared to the previous days may reflect bearish concerns.

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Finance

KuCoin Has Closed a $10M Funding Round Into CNHC, but Is the Offshore Yuan Right for a Stablecoin?

Circle Ventures, the venture arm of the USDC-issuer, and IDG Capital also joined the round.

China renminbi bills (Moerschy/Pixabay)