Crypto Update | The Gaming Industry Doesn’t Need Web3, but Gamers Might
With crypto markets and other assets ticking up on Fed Chair Jerome Powell's dovish remarks on interest rates, plus a look at what Web3 gaming got wrong, CoinDesk’s “Markets Daily” is back with the latest news roundup.
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Today's Stories:
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Rises Again on US Fed Chair's Moderate Remarks
First Mover Americas: Crypto's November Fall
Bitcoin's Price Action Is Encouraging, Yet It May Not Signal Bottom: Traders
Crypto's Ugly November Draws to Close With ‘Sam Coins’ in Gutter, Bitcoin Down 18%
Gold Continuous Contract Overview - GC00
Fed Likely to Raise Rates by 50 Basis Points in December; Bitcoin Jumps
TradFi Giant TP ICAP Gains UK Crypto License
Canada's Manitoba Province Enacts 18-Month Moratorium on New Crypto Mining: Reports
The Ethereum Foundation Commences Shutdown of Ropsten Testnet
Featured Story: The Gaming Industry Doesn’t Need Web3, but Gamers Might
This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust, with original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.
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Associate Producer for CoinDesk, Adrian 'Doc' Blust, is an experienced Composer, Musician/DJ, fintech nerd, and Educator, with practice both in the field and in the studio. He currently is dedicated to the editing & production of the Markets Daily Crypto News Roundups with Adam B. Levine, focused on quick news feeds to help people get up to speed with the fast pace of crypto every morning. He also offers support in the production of other shows on CoinDesk’s diverse Podcast Network.
He holds BTC, ETH, and ADA above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

Adam B. Levine joined CoinDesk in 2019 as the editor of its new audio and podcasts division. Previously, Adam founded the long-running Let's Talk Bitcoin! talk show with co-hosts Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos.
Finding early success with the show, Adam transformed the podcast's homepage into a full newsdesk and publishing platform, founding the LTB Network in January of 2014 to help broaden the conversation with new and different perspectives. In the Spring of that year, he would go on to launch the first and largest tokenized rewards program for creators and their audience. In what many have called an early influential version of "Steemit"; LTBCOIN, which was awarded to both content creators and members of the audience for participation was distributed until the LTBN was acquired by BTC, Inc. in January of 2017.
With the network launched and growing, in late 2014 Adam turned his attention to the practical challenges of administering the tokenized program and founded Tokenly, Inc. There, he led the development of early tokenized vending machines with Swapbot, tokenized identity solution Tokenpass, e-commerce with TokenMarkets.com and media with Token.fm. Adam owns some BTC, ETH and small positions in a number of other tokens.

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