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Opinion

Stablecoins: A Potential Counter to De-Dollarization

Demand for dollars in the global economy is increasingly flowing into permissionless stablecoins, even as domestic policies and foreign efforts like a BRICS-issued currency could erode the greenback's overall dominance.

a panoramic photo of a city (Joshua Rawson-Harris/Unsplash)

Opinion

What Does the Debt Limit Showdown Mean for Bitcoin?

A U.S. debt default could catapult the cryptocurrency onto the international stage.

Political theatrics over the internecine debt ceiling debate on the U.S. Capitol Hill risks the international economy. Bitcoin could ascend as a global reserve and trade asset if the U.S. dollar loses status. (Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York/U.S. Library of Congress)

Markets

Bitcoin Slides Below $27K as Investors Eye Debt Ceiling Negotiations

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned the U.S. could breach its debt limit by June 1, potentially setting off a recession in the event of default.

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 06: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (C) listens to President Joe Biden during a hybrid meeting with corporate chief executives and members of his cabinet to discuss the looming federal debt limit in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Each of the meeting participants spoke in dire terms about the negative national and global economic reaction to Congress failing to raise the limit and the U.S. defaulting on its debt. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Posts Biggest Weekly Loss in 5 Months as Dollar Liquidity Declines, Debt Ceiling Fears Return

The cost of insuring against a potential U.S. government default in the next 12 months soared to record highs last week.

Gráfico de precios de bitcoin. (CoinDesk/Highcharts.com)

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Stronghold Raises Year-End Hashrate Guidance to 4 EH/s

Fourth-quarter revenue of $23.4 million was driven mainly by selling energy to the power grid rather than crypto mining.

Stronghold Digital Mining CEO Greg Beard (right) and Co-Chairman Bill Spence (left).  (Stronghold Digital Mining)

Markets

Securities Platform DEFYCA to Release Tokenized Private Debt Protocol on Avalanche

DEFYCA’s launch highlights the growing trend of bringing tokenized versions of traditional markets like debt to blockchain-based protocols.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner BitNile Pulls 6,500 Rigs From Former Compute North Site

The company signed a hosting deal in August with now-bankrupt Compute North for a site that is now managed by USBTC.

Compass' Wolf Hollow site in Granbury, Texas (Compute North)

Finance

Bankrupt Crypto Lender BlockFi Takes Two-Thirds Loss to Settle Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms' Debt

The miner had recently warned it might stop paying off the debt to bankrupt BlockFi.

A bitfarms mining site in Washington. (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Stronghold Digital Restructures Remaining $55M of Debt

The company also signed a two-year hosting agreement with Foundry.

Stronghold Digital Mining CEO Greg Beard (right) and Co-Chairman Bill Spence (left). 
(Stronghold Digital Mining)

Markets

DebtDAO to Burn 18M FTX User Debt Tokens Following Demand Frenzy

More than 18 million tokens to be burned after the demand for the recovery tokens saw prices surge to as much as $113.

(CraigRJD/Getty)

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