Bitcoin News Roundup for Dec. 2, 2020
With the price of BTC closer than ever to $20K and the largest asset manager in the world talking bitcoin, CoinDesk's Market's Daily is back with another crypto news roundup.
ABOUT
With the price of BTC closer than ever to $20K and the largest asset manager in the world talking bitcoin, CoinDesk's Market's Daily is back with another crypto news roundup.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and this week’s special product launch Allnodes
Today's stories:
Bitcoin Sees Record Number of Active Users as Price Almost Hits $20K
As bitcoin set a new price high closer to $20,000 on Tuesday, the network also saw record-breaking user activity.
Almost 20% of PayPal Users Have Used App to Trade Bitcoin, Mizuho Says
About 65% of users would use bitcoin as a currency at PayPal's 28 million merchants, one study found.
XRP Led November's Crypto Bull Run With 169% Gain
XRP jumped 169% in November to top the performance rankings among digital assets in the CoinDesk 20, outperforming bitcoin and ether.
CEO of World's Largest Asset Manager Says Bitcoin Can Possibly 'Evolve' Into Global Asset
The head of the world's largest asset manager. BlackRock, has provided a bullish take on the world's first cryptocurrency.
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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