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Bitcoin Hints at a Bottom, But It May Be Different This Time

(Bloomberg) — It’s a perennial exercise whenever an asset is mired in a prolonged and deep drawdown: People look at the charts, they go over this or that indicator and they get their checklists out to try to figure out when it might find a floor. For Bitcoin, there’s plenty of such action happening right […]

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Crypto Lender Vauld Freezes Withdrawals, Eyes Restructuring

(Bloomberg) –Vauld, a crypto lender backed by Coinbase Inc., said it froze withdrawals and hired advisers to explore a potential restructuring, joining rivals from Celsius Network to Babel Finance in resorting to last-ditch measures to survive the market rout. The Singapore-based company hired Kroll as financial adviser and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Rajah & Tann […]

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Crypto’s Brutal Week Ends With a Trading Halt and a Bailout

(Bloomberg) — The meltdown in cryptocurrency markets deepened this week, as major players contended with liquidations, withdrawal freezes, trading halts — and, at least in one case, a bailout. Crypto broker Voyager Digital Ltd. on Friday announced a suspension of trading, deposits and withdrawals, while BlockFi, a major digital-asset lender, won the backing of exchange […]

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JPMorgan Says Crypto’s Deleveraging Cycle Won’t Last Much Longer

(Bloomberg) — The current phase of deleveraging in cryptocurrencies is at an advanced state and may not last much longer, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Multiple crypto company failures shouldn’t be surprising given huge price declines among tokens, and entities that used higher leverage in the past are the most vulnerable, strategists including Nikolaos […]

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‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Roger Ver Spars With Crypto Exchange CoinFlex Over Margin Call

(Bloomberg) — A public dispute between a longtime crypto investor and a digital-asset exchange is the latest in a series of mini-crises that have rocked crypto markets in recent weeks. CoinFlex, a crypto exchange, on Tuesday named Roger Ver as the counterparty who failed to pay $47 million of stablecoin in a margin call. CoinFlex […]

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Why Margin Calls and Bot Liquidations Are Roiling Crypto

(Bloomberg) — It’s a vicious circle long familiar to those in traditional finance: trades made with borrowed money coming apart when the value of their collateral put up against the loans drops, forcing liquidations that in turn push prices down further. That pattern, driven by so-called margin calls, has come to cryptocurrency markets in a […]

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Crypto’s Liquidity Troubles Are Spreading Across Platforms

(Bloomberg) — A broad-based selloff in digital assets and the collapse of high-profile tokens TerraUSD and Luna have caused ripple effects across the crypto industry. A wave of liquidations triggered fear of contagion risks. Major lenders Celsius Network and Babel Finance have frozen withdrawals, and Three Arrows Capital, a major crypto hedge fund, is facing […]

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Bitcoin Sinks Again as Risk-Off Mood Returns on Recession Fears

(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin resumed a fall on Wednesday, moving in tandem with weakening stocks amid mounting concerns about a global recession. The largest cryptocurrency declined as much as 2.9% to $20,244, holding right above the key $20,000 level. Ether fell by a maximum 3.3% to $1,084.80. Shiba Inu, the 14th-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, rallied […]

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Crypto’s Excruciating Week Has Traders Bracing for Next Crisis

(Bloomberg) — It was one of the most dramatic weeks in the short history of the cryptocurrency market, bookended by the type of announcements investors fear the most from a counterparty: We’re sorry, but we just can’t return your money right now. In between, a nascent technocratic industry with grand ambitions to reinvent the financial […]

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Bitcoin Breaks From Stocks and Keeps On Falling as Crypto Slides

(Bloomberg) — Crypto had another bad week — and it may only get weirder. Bitcoin led a decline in digital assets across the whole crypto spectrum, with the world’s largest token set for an eighth straight weekly loss in its longest such slump since August 2011. Bitcoin fell 2.4% on Friday to about $28,700 as […]

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Short-Sellers Target Biggest US Bitcoin ETF as Drawdown Deepens

(Bloomberg) — The first US Bitcoin-futures backed exchange-traded fund is turning into a target for crypto bears. Short interest in the $748 million ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (ticker BITO) as a percentage of shares outstanding is nearly 11%, close to the highest since the fund’s October 2021 inception, IHS Markit Ltd. data show. Meanwhile, the […]

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Lagarde Says Crypto Is ‘Worth Nothing’ and Should Be Regulated

(Bloomberg) — European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said crypto-currencies are “based on nothing” and should be regulated to steer people away from speculating on them with their life savings. Lagarde told Dutch television that she’s concerned about people “who have no understanding of the risks, who will lose it all and who will be […]

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Terra Hasn’t Killed Crypto, But It Was a Narrow Escape

(Bloomberg) — Speculation that the collapse of one of the biggest experiments in decentralized finance could bring about the death of crypto appears to have been overblown. If Terra’s implosion had happened after a few more months of growth, the resultant market impact might have created a DeFi version of 2008 — instead, high-profile algorithmic […]

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Bitcoin Trades Near $30,000 as Markets Digest TerraUSD Fallout

(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin staged a modest recovery to trade at around $30,000, extending a period of relative market calm after the collapse of a closely watched stablecoin roiled digital assets in the past week. The largest cryptocurrency advanced 3.4% n Sunday to $30,350 as of 4 p.m. in New York. Ether, the second-biggest token, rose […]

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3 Funds for Bitcoin Exposure in Your Portfolio (GBTC, BITW, OBTC)

For investors, Bitcoin (BTC) may be the most surprising asset class in recent times. Even as it displays schizophrenic and volatile price swings, the cryptocurrency has also emerged as the best-performing asset in the last decade. It has, at various times, outperformed the S&P 500 and diminished gold’s luster as a store of value. Because […]

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