Crypto News Roundup for Sept. 17, 2021

With bitcoin trading flat while altcoins outperform, plus a look at how destroying art can (at least appear to) create value, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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Today’s Stories:

Bitcoin Consolidates Above $45K support; Resistance at $50K

Bitcoin Continues to Chop Around $48K as Ether’s Exchange Outflows Spike

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Drifts Lower as Altcoins Outperform

Stock Futures Point to Lackluster Finish for Week; Oil Pulls Back

European stocks edge up on China stimulus hopes

November? December? The Fed’s ‘taper’ timeline tied is to volatile, official jobs data

Big-Box Retailers Battle for Inventory in Bet on Strong Holiday Sales

Shanghai to Pilot Offshore Use of Digital Yuan on Conflux Blockchain

El Salvador Watchdog to Investigate Government Bitcoin Purchases, ATMs

South Korea’s Ruling Party Looks to Defer Next Year’s Crypto Taxation in Amendment

Bitcoin Sidechain-Based STO Approved by German Regulator

US Treasury Turns Its Gaze to Stablecoin Issuers

Blockchain Technology at Pivot Moment Mirrors Broadband, CMCC Global Says

$3M in Ether Stolen has been From SushiSwap’s MISO Launchpad

Polychain Capital and Three Arrows Led a $230M Investment into the Avalanche Ecosystem

Record Doge NFT Sale Highlights Growing Demand for Fractionalization

Satoshi Nakamoto Statue Unveiled in Hungary

Featured Story: The Burning Question Behind NFTs

This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust.

HOSTS

Adrian Blust

Associate Producer for CoinDesk, Adrian 'Doc' Blust, is an experienced Composer, Musician/DJ, fintech nerd, and Educator, with practice both in the field and in the studio. He currently is dedicated to the editing & production of the Markets Daily Crypto News Roundups with Adam B. Levine, focused on quick news feeds to help people get up to speed with the fast pace of crypto every morning. He also offers support in the production of other shows on CoinDesk’s diverse Podcast Network.

He holds BTC, ETH, and ADA above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

Adam B. Levine

Adam B. Levine joined CoinDesk in 2019 as the editor of its new audio and podcasts division. Previously, Adam founded the long-running Let's Talk Bitcoin! talk show with co-hosts Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos.

Finding early success with the show, Adam transformed the podcast's homepage into a full newsdesk and publishing platform, founding the LTB Network in January of 2014 to help broaden the conversation with new and different perspectives. In the Spring of that year, he would go on to launch the first and largest tokenized rewards program for creators and their audience. In what many have called an early influential version of "Steemit"; LTBCOIN, which was awarded to both content creators and members of the audience for participation was distributed until the LTBN was acquired by BTC, Inc. in January of 2017.

With the network launched and growing, in late 2014 Adam turned his attention to the practical challenges of administering the tokenized program and founded Tokenly, Inc. There, he led the development of early tokenized vending machines with Swapbot, tokenized identity solution Tokenpass, e-commerce with TokenMarkets.com and media with Token.fm. Adam owns some BTC, ETH and small positions in a number of other tokens.