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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Slips to $11.2K; Uniswap Flows Dominate Ether

Bitcoin price is dipping a bit while ether flows display Uniswap’s prominent market position.

CoinDesk20 Bitcoin Price Index

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A $10B Firm Makes Bitcoin Its Primary Treasury Asset

Stone Ridge Holdings Group announces $50 million in new funding for its digital asset subsidiary as well as significant BTC treasury holdings.

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Tech

Brainwallets: The Bitcoin Wallet You Probably Shouldn’t Use (Unless You Have To)

A “brainwallet” refers to a private key that is stored in the user’s memory in the form of a seed phrase or a passphrase.

brainwallet

Markets

First Mover: Privacy Is Litecoin's Ace in the Hole as JPMorgan Touts Bitcoin

After lagging behind bitcoin for the past couple years, Litecoin founder Charlie Lee is looking to privacy features as his ace in the hole.

Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin

Markets

Bitcoin Steady Above $11,400 as Hashrate Reaches New High

Bitcoin's record hashrate indicates fundamentals are stronger than ever, according to Skew Markets.

Stack of bitcoin miners

Markets

JPMorgan Calls Square's $50M Bitcoin Investment 'Strong Vote of Confidence' for the Cryptocurrency

Other payment companies will also likely follow in Square's footsteps or risk getting shut out of a growing segment, JPMorgan wrote.

JP Morgan Chase's corporate headquarters

Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Slips to $11,300; Ether Locked in DeFi Is Flat

Bitcoin’s price is slipping while the amount of ether parked in DeFi is stuck in neutral.

CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

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First Mover: Stimulus Winning as Biden Surges in Polls and Bitcoin Eyes $12K

Bitcoin nears $12K after six-day winning streak, as analysts predict economy will need trillions of dollars of stimulus.

There's a lot to absorb in the runup to the 2020 election, and trillions of dollars of stimulus is likely part of the production.

Markets

Bitcoin Eyes $12K Price After 6-Day Streak of Gains

Bitcoin's six-day run of gains has shifted the focus to psychological hurdle of $12,000. Some analysts are looking even higher.

Bitcoin prices over the last six days

Markets

Bitcoiners Have Trillions and Trillions of Reasons to Ignore US Election

Trump? Biden? Who cares? The U.S. economy is in such a shambles that massive stimulus packages are likely either way, probably financed by the Fed.

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