Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 17, 2020
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With bitcoin slipping alongside European stocks and a leaked memo about China's blockchain plans, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Today's stories:
Federal Reserve Now Targets Inflation Above 2%, Bitcoin Breaks $11K
Federal Reserve officials said Wednesday they would hold U.S. interest rates at close to zero and work to push inflation above 2% "for some time."
Bitcoin 'Young Investment' Wallets at Highest Level Since February 2018
New investors are entering the bitcoin market at a faster pace and possibly creating upward pressure on prices, on-chain data shows.
China's BSN Will 'Localize' Public Blockchains for Local Use
China’s state-sanctioned Blockchain-Based Service Network is finally bringing public chains to its homeland -- but they will look very different.
Kraken Becomes First Crypto Exchange to Charter a US Bank
On Wednesday, the Wyoming Banking Board voted to approve Kraken’s bank charter application. Kraken is the first SPDI bank in Wyoming.
HOST
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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