Bitcoin News Roundup for March 8, 2021
With BTC back above $50K and a look at the ballooning market for token collectibles, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
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With BTC back above $50K and a look at the ballooning market for token collectibles, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
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This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Casper and The Sun Exchange.
Today's stories:
Soaring Prices for Enjin, FLOW and Rarible Reveal Risks of 'NFT Marketplace' Tokens
GameStop Frenzy Emboldens Supporters of Stock-Trading Tax (WSJ)
Goldman Economists See 4.1% Unemployment in U.S. by End of Year (Bloomberg)
JPMorgan Posted 34 Blockchain Jobs as It Beefs Up JPM Coin
India Needs to Assess Crypto Risks Before Deciding Whether to Ban, Minister Says
Goldman Digital Asset Lead Sees Mergers Ahead for Crypto Infrastructure Providers
Ripple Investor’s Request to Reclaim Its $175M Investment has been Rejected by a Court
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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