Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.

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Policy

India Keeps Stiff Taxes on Crypto as Interim-Budget Is Revealed in Election Year

Expectations were low for a change in the stiff taxes on crypto transactions: a 30% tax on profits and a 1% TDS on all transactions.

(L-R) Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

Markets

It May Be Time for Bitcoin Traders to Focus on John Bollinger's Price Bands Again

Bitcoin's monthly chart Bollinger bandwidth resembles a pattern seen before the near-vertical rallies of 2020 and 2016.

Didgeman/Pixabay

Finance

Ripple's XRP Drops 5% After Executive Is Hacked, Sparking Rumors of Network Breach

Ripple Executive Chairman Chris Larsen said the stolen funds all came from his "personal XRP accounts" in response to a report from blockchain analyst ZachXBT.

Ripple (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

German Police Seize $2.1B Worth of Bitcoin in Piracy Sting

One of the suspects voluntarily transferred the bitcoin to the Federal Criminal Police Office.

German police announce $2.1B bitcoin seizure (Markus Spiske/Unsplash)

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Finance

MIM Stablecoin Suffers Flash Crash Amid $6.5M Exploit

Certrik suggests the exploit could be due to a rounding error.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Markets

ARK Bought $62.3M Worth of Own ETF in Last Week; Sold $42.7M of BITO

ARKW now holds $91.4 million of ARKB, constituting a 5.98% weighting of the fund's total value

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

Finance

Telefónica Partners With Helium to Roll Out Mobile Hotspots in Mexico

Helium's native token is up by 5.71% over the past 24-hours.

Telecom giant Telefónica partners with Helium (HNT) to roll out mobile hotspots in Mexico. (Robbie Herrera/Unsplash)

Markets

Fed Rate Cut Hopes Run Into Inflationary Red Sea Crisis

Disruptions to commercial shipping traffic via the Red Sea/Suez Canal route threaten to push up prices. That's an unwelcome development for bitcoin bulls.

Sea (ajs1980518/Pixabay)

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Finance

Crypto Exchange OKX's Token Suffers 50% Flash Crash Amid Liquidation Cascade

The exchange said that it will compensate impacted users within 72 hours.

OKB price flash crash (TradingView)

Finance

Coinbase Falls After JPMorgan Downgrades Stock to Underweight on Disappointing Bitcoin ETF Catalyst

The bitcoin ETF catalyst that pushed the ecosystem out of its crypto winter last year will disappoint investors in 2024, the report said.

JP Morgan office (Matthew Foulds/Unsplash)