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Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week still replaying November 2020 after its lowest weekly close in two years. The largest cryptocurrency, just like the rest of the crypto industry, remains highly susceptible to downside risk as it continues to deal with the fallout from the implosion of exchange FTX. Contagion is the world on everyone’s

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week SBF received $1B in personal loans from Alameda: FTX bankruptcy

The “Bitcoin-is-dead” gang is back and at it again. The fall of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange has resurrected these infamous critics that are once again blaming a robbery on the money that was stolen, and not the robber. “We need regulation! Why did the government allow this to happen?” they scream.   For instance, Chetan Bhagat,

2022 was a tough year for crypto, and November was especially hard on investors and traders alike.  While it was incredibly painful for many, FTX’s blowup and the ensuing contagion that threatens to pull other centralized crypto exchanges down with it could be positive over the long run. Allow me to explain. What people learned,

Bitcoin (BTC) ranged around $16,500 on Nov. 17 as markets digested the latest events surrounding exchange FTX. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView FTX CEO tells of “complete failure of corporate controls” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD seeing only mild volatility at the Wall Street open. The pair showed acclimatization

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Bitcoin (BTC) fell to intraday lows after the Nov. 16 Wall Street open as the FTX scandal appeared to claim another victim. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Genesis Trading liquidity “exceeded” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD trading around $16,400 at the time of writing. Downside had entered again for

A week after the fallout from the FTX and Alameda chaos, some on-chain data points are interesting to observe. Although record amounts of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) are leaving the exchanges, not all decentralized applications (DApps) and protocols have shown growth, mainly due to reliance on FTX and Alameda.  DeFi earnings highlight positive revenue

Bitcoin (BTC) sellers are nursing their largest overall losses since March 2020, one on-chain metric suggests. Data from on-chain analytics firm Glassnode confirms that Bitcoin’s spent output profit ratio (SOPR) has now fallen to two-year lows. BTC on-chain losses mount As Bitcoin holders attempt to pull funds from exchanges into noncustodial wallets, those moving coins

Bitcoin (BTC) spiked to $17,000 at the Nov. 15 Wall Street open as fresh United States economic data continued to show inflation cooling. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView “Good” PPI boosts risk assets Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it came closer to multi-day highs. Volatility had returned an

Bitcoin (BTC) returned to $16,500 at the Nov. 14 Wall Street open as bulls tried and failed to break higher. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Snowden hints BTC price echoes March 2020 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD ranging below $17,000 on the day after a dismal weekly close. The

Bitcoin (BTC) lost 25.4% in 48 hours, bottoming at $15,590 on Nov. 9 as investors rushed to exit positions after the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, halted withdrawals. More importantly, the sub-$17,000 levels were last seen almost two years prior, and the fear of contagion became evident. The move liquidated $285 million worth of leverage long

Bitcoin (BTC) will recover from the FTX “black swan event” just like other setbacks, trading team Stockmoney Lizards believes. In a tweet on Nov. 12, the popular commentator argued that the week’s events were actually nothing new for Bitcoin. FTX “a real black swan event” Despite falling 25% in days, BTC/USD is not doomed as

On Nov. 11, NFT Steez, a bi-weekly Twitter Spaces hosted by Alyssa Expósito and Ray Salmond, met with Thomas Webb, the founder of the interoperable avatar game Worldwide Webb, to discuss the integration of interoperability in Web3 and the Metaverse.  By definition, interoperability is a feature of Web3 whereby a product or system can work

The total cryptocurrency market capitalization dropped by 24% between Nov. 8 and Nov. 10, reaching a $770 billion low. However, after the initial panic was subdued and forced future contracts liquidations were no longer pressuring asset prices, a sharp 16% recovery followed. Total crypto market cap in USD, 2-days. Source: TradingView This week’s dip was

Bitcoin (BTC) miners could form the next BTC price “trigger,” research warns as withdrawals intensify. In a Quicktake post for on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant on Nov. 10, contributor MAC.D suggested that miners could soon face “bankruptcy.” Research: Network conditions “will strangle” miners After BTC/USD fell 20% in a matter of days, miners began operating at a