Bitcoin News Roundup for June 24, 2021
With crypto markets wondering what comes next and a look at the storied life of John McAfee, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
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With crypto markets wondering what comes next and a look at the storied life of John McAfee, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
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Today's Stories:
Google, Facebook Pressure Falls Short as Antitrust Measures Advance in House Committee
John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison: Report
Coinbase Enters Japanese Market After Completing Registration With Financial Watchdog
Hospital Stocks’ Rally Points to Post-Covid Growth
Winklevoss Buy Offsets to Cut Carbon Footprint of Bitcoin Cache
JPMorgan Buys Stake in Robert Kraft's Sports-Data Company
World’s Biggest Stock Losers Are Chinese Tutors Amid Crackdown
Brazil Stock Exchange Lists First Bitcoin ETF in Latin America
Paraguay University to Accept Bitcoin, Ether, XRP in August
NYC Mayoral Front Runner Eric Adams Says City Will Become ‘Center of Bitcoins’
Six Leading Banks Back SWIFT’s New International Payments Platform
'I Regret Nothing': McAfee's Wild Ride From Infosec Exec to Crypto Bad Boy
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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