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Is Bitcoin's Pullback Temporary?

Bitcoin is pulling back after a near 13% rally month to date, but is it just temporary? Alexandre Lores, an analyst at Quantum Economics, discusses why he doesn't think bitcoin is due for lower lows and remains "bullish on the near term." Plus, his take on the potential catalyst behind the recent price surge.

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Bitcoin Lightning Network Growth Passes New Milestones

The Lightning Network, a layer 2 payments solution built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain that enables secure, private and near-instantaneous transactions at little to no cost, has surpassed 25,000 active nodes for the first time. This indicates the network is growing stronger with more nodes and channels.

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Lightning Network Nodes Surpass 25K for First Time Ever

CoinDesk's Galen Moore discusses his assessment of skyrocketing activity on Bitcoin's Lightning Network as it surpassed 25,000 active nodes for the first time. "The supply is up, for sure, but is the demand up?" Moore asked. Plus, his take on emerging markets taking on crypto as reported in Chainalysis' 2021 global crypto adoption index.

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NFT Trading Surges 8X as Penguins, Apes Drive New Boom

Trading in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is soaring to multiples of the levels seen earlier this year. Sales on OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace, reportedly reached more than 60,000 per day over the past week, nearly eight times the peak in March.

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Binance Appoints Former US Treasury Enforcer to Anti-Money Laundering Role

Binance has named former U.S. Treasury enforcement investigator Greg Monahan as its global money laundering reporting officer. The appointment comes as the crypto exchange is attempting to be more proactive in its regulatory compliance. Where is it headed next?

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Dogecoin Foundation Returns With Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin as Adviser

The Dogecoin Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to support the development of DOGE, has been re-established with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin as its “blockchain and crypto adviser.” The foundation is now hoping to secure a three-year budget to hire a small staff to work on dogecoin full-time.

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MobileCoin Raises $66M to Build Out Privacy-Focused Payments Tech

MobileCoin, a privacy-oriented and mobile-first cryptocurrency project, has raised $66 million in venture capital led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research, Coinbase Ventures, and others to build out its payments technology.

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Poly Network Offers Hacker a Job, NFTs Support Afghan Families

Poly Network offers hacker a job. Hong Kong-based BIT Mining sees revenue surge. And an NFT fund offers care packages for displaced Afghan families. We’ll have more on that story and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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Tax Software Firm TaxBit Value Tops $1B Unicorn Status

TaxBit, a crypto tax software provider for IRS and various institutional clients, raised $130 million in a Series B funding round that valued the startup at $1.33 billion.

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Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari on Crypto Market: ‘Thousands of Garbage Coins’

CoinDesk’s Nikhilesh De discusses what to make of Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, criticizing bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. “It’s just a signal of how much the central bank is paying attention to the industry,” De said.

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