Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 18, 2021

With the both of the top two cryptocurrencies setting new record high prices plus a look at what dogecoin says about our world, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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The $8.7 trillion-asset BlackRock is “dabbling” in cryptocurrencies – becoming the norm as bitcoin and ether rally to all-time high prices.

Dogecoin’s rise reflects the power of collective belief and a longing for a more ideal form of crypto.

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Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 16, 2021

With BTC briefly breaching $50K as the industry’s market cap passes $1.5T, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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Break of psychological threshold pushes largest cryptocurrency’s year-to-date return to 70%, as a new breed of upstart tokens pushes industry market cap past $1.5T.

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Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 12, 2021

With bitcoin slipping after hitting a new all-time high around $49K and Canadian regulators approving a bitcoin ETF, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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ByteTree’s Charlie Morris shows how bitcoin’s price gets to $1 million by 2032. PLUS: JPMorgan hounded by own traders over absence in bitcoin market.

JPMorgan employees have hounded senior trading-division management during internal “town hall” meetings over when the largest U.S. bank might get into bitcoin, CNBC reported.

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Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 11, 2021

With BTC setting a new record above $48K and Mastercard implementing crypto payments, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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Bitcoin’s price hits new all-time high over $48,000 despite U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s warning that cryptocurrencies are prone to illicit uses.

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Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 10, 2021

With the top two cryptos down on the day and a bitcoin supply squeeze seemingly in the cards, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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A wave of new bitcoin buyers is arriving just as easily obtained supplies of the cryptocurrency fall to their lowest levels in more than three years.

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Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 5, 2021

With BTC looking for a breakout as ether notches another all-time high, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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Bitcoin breaks out, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sets up a bitcoin node and Bank of England warns on negative rates. Meanwhile, it’s DeFi that’s mooning.

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Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 4, 2021

With ether breaching another all-time high and payments giant Visa expanding its digital currency roadmap, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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Altcoins like Chainlink get a big boost from DeFi growth on Ethereum, while inflation bets boost bitcoin and dogecoin gets (Elon Musk) moonshot.

Visa is working with Anchorage to allow customers at traditional banks to “buy and sell digital assets.”

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Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 3, 2021

With BTC trading in its recent range and a look at DeFi in a post-WallStreetBets world, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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Today’s stories:

Crypto Bulls Are Back as Ether Hits All-Time High, Bitcoiners Hoard

GameStop comedown shows appeal of social media-fueled trading. Dogecoin chatter in Reddit reveals cryptocurrency analogue.

Bitwise Asset Management said Tuesday it’s seeking U.S. regulatory approval to publicly trade shares of its bitcoin fund on the over-the-counter marketplace OTCQX. “There is significant growth in interest from professional investors in accessing bitcoin as a tool to hedge their portfolios against rising inflationary risk,” says Matt Hougan, Bitwise’s chief investment officer.

Grayscale Investments reopened its Ethereum Trust earlier this week to accredited investors. (NOTE: Grayscale is a unit of Digital Currency Group, which also owns CoinDesk.)

Switzerland’s 21Shares (formerly known as Amun) is launching the world’s first exchange-traded product for the cryptocurrency polkadot (DOT), to be traded on the Swiss SIX Exchange under the ticker symbol PDOT. Prices for DOT have doubled this year, for a market capitalization of about $15 billion.

The investment firm Accelerate Financial Technologies is seeking approval from Canadian securities regulators to list a bitcoin exchange-traded fund on the Toronto Stock Exchange, CoinDesk’s Tanzeel Akhtar reported Wednesday.

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Bitcoin (BTC) $ 26,486.10 0.41%
Ethereum (ETH) $ 1,589.95 0.23%
Litecoin (LTC) $ 64.29 1.18%
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) $ 206.98 0.79%