CDCROP: Bitcoin Benjamin Franklin blowing bubblegum (Getty Images)
Bitcoin Was a Winner During the U.S. Banking Crisis, but Illiquidity Prevents It From Being a USD Hedge
While capital flowed into bitcoin amid a period of uncertainty, the cryptocurrency’s fractured liquidity arguably played the largest role in its surge.
CDCROP: Bitcoin Benjamin Franklin blowing bubblegum (Getty Images)

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Safe Haven From Banks? Bitcoin’s New Narrative Comes Into View
Banks down, bitcoin up and, boom, a narrative is born.
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CDCROP: AI Artwork Charts Graphs Indices Market (Midjourney/CoinDesk)
Bitcoin, Ether Prices Flatten During Week of Financial Turmoil
Despite banking unrest and increased regulatory scrutiny, bitcoin and ether were trading roughly where they started the week.
CDCROP: AI Artwork Charts Graphs Indices Market (Midjourney/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Edges Below $28K as Investors Weigh Deutsche Bank Contagion Fears
But the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is still up about 16% in March. Ether dropped below $1,800.
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CDCROP: Russian bitcoin fraud suspect Alexander Vinnik (Shutterstock)
Bitcoin From Defunct BTC-e on the Move Again: Report
Someone is trying to cash out bitcoin from an exchange the U.S. shut down in 2017.
CDCROP: Russian bitcoin fraud suspect Alexander Vinnik (Shutterstock)

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Bank Consolidation Threatens Freedom, Makes Case for Bitcoin
The biggest threat from the banking crisis triggered by this month’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank might not lie in the potential for depositors to lose their savings but in the censorship power that massive banks are now accumulating as customers move their money.
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Historic photograph of a German bank during a period of hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic. (Bain News Service/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)
A Sudden Onset of Hyperinflation: What Will Happen to Bitcoin?
If the world is thrust into hyperbitcoinization – as Balaji Srinivasan predicts – before the ecosystem is ready, then even bitcoiners might not be in a position to use bitcoin.
Historic photograph of a German bank during a period of hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic. (Bain News Service/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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Here's Why Crypto Traders Should Be Attentive to 'De-Inversion' of Treasury Yield Curve
The Treasury curve suggests the widely anticipated U.S. economic recession is near. Historically, the signal has brought pain to risk assets.
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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Clings to $28K as Turbulent Week Draws to Close
The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for March 24, 2023.
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele (Getty Images)
El Salvador President Bukele to Introduce Bill That Would Eliminate Taxes on Technology Innovations
The country in 2021 became the first nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele (Getty Images)