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Bitcoin Drifting Below $40K, Fed Releases White Paper on Central Bank Digital Currency, SEC Chair Gary Gensler Wants More Control of Crypto

Jan 21, 2022

“First Mover” hosts are joined by Congressman Tom Emmer (R-MN) as he introduces a new bill aimed to limit the Federal Reserve’s ability to issue a digital currency.

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BlackRock's Spot Bitcoin ETF Plans; U.S. Crypto Lobbying Spending Expected to Hit New Record

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BlackRock's Spot Bitcoin ETF Plans; U.S. Crypto Lobbying Spending Expected to Hit New Record

Dec 5, 2023

Most Influential 2023; Bitcoin Breaks Above $42K For First Time Since April 2022

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Most Influential 2023; Bitcoin Breaks Above $42K For First Time Since April 2022

Dec 4, 2023

Bitcoin Hovers Below $38K Amid New Inflation Data; Spot Bitcoin ETF Interest in Brazil

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Bitcoin Hovers Below $38K Amid New Inflation Data; Spot Bitcoin ETF Interest in Brazil

Nov 30, 2023

Christine Lee is an anchor and producer at CoinDesk. Previously, she anchored live daily market updates and reported business news features for television stations around the world at Thomson Reuters. She first began covering cryptocurrencies at Bloomberg TV Canada.

Lawrence Lewitinn

Lawrence Lewitinn serves as the Director of Content for The Tie, a crypto data company, and co-hosts CoinDesk's flagship "First Mover" program. Previously, he held the position of Managing Editor for Markets at CoinDesk. He is a seasoned financial journalist having worked at CNBC, TheStreet, Yahoo Finance, the Observer, and crypto publication Modern Consensus. Lewitinn's career also includes time on Wall Street as a trader of fixed income, currencies, and commodities at Millennium Management and MQS Capital. Lewitinn graduated from New York University and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He is also a CFA Charterholder. He holds investments in bitcoin.

Emily Parker is CoinDesk's executive director of global content. Previously, Emily was a member of the Policy Planning staff at the U.S. State Department, where she advised on Internet freedom and digital diplomacy. Emily was a writer/editor at The Wall Street Journal and an editor at The New York Times. She is the co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain startup that focuses on Asian markets. She is the author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The book tells the stories of Internet activists in China, Cuba and Russia. Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, called it "a rigorously researched and reported account that reads like a thriller." She was chief strategy officer at Silicon Valley social media startup Parlio, which was acquired by Quora. She has done public speaking all over the world, and is currently represented by the Leigh Bureau. She has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and many other television and radio shows. Her book has been assigned at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tufts, UCSD and other schools. Emily speaks Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. She graduated with Honors from Brown University and has a Masters from Harvard in East Asian Studies. She holds Bitcoin, Ether and smaller amounts of other cryptocurrencies.

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BlackRock's Spot Bitcoin ETF Plans; U.S. Crypto Lobbying Spending Expected to Hit New Record

BlackRock's Spot Bitcoin ETF Plans; U.S. Crypto Lobbying Spending Expected to Hit New Record

Dec 5, 2023

Most Influential 2023; Bitcoin Breaks Above $42K For First Time Since April 2022

Most Influential 2023; Bitcoin Breaks Above $42K For First Time Since April 2022

Dec 4, 2023

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World's Largest Bitcoin Futures ETF Breaks 2021 Record; Polygon's Secret Deal

Dec 1, 2023

Bitcoin Hovers Below $38K Amid New Inflation Data; Spot Bitcoin ETF Interest in Brazil

Bitcoin Hovers Below $38K Amid New Inflation Data; Spot Bitcoin ETF Interest in Brazil

Nov 30, 2023

Bitcoin Breaches $38K; CZ Steps Down From Binance.US Board

Bitcoin Breaches $38K; CZ Steps Down From Binance.US Board

Nov 29, 2023

Binance Founder CZ Must Remain in U.S. for the Moment; Crypto Giving Tuesday

Binance Founder CZ Must Remain in U.S. for the Moment; Crypto Giving Tuesday

Nov 28, 2023

Binance to Pay $4B to Settle U.S. Criminal Case; Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao Resigns as CEO, Pleads Guilty

Binance to Pay $4B to Settle U.S. Criminal Case; Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao Resigns as CEO, Pleads Guilty

Nov 22, 2023

Kraken Accused of Operating Unregistered Platform by SEC; CBDC Exploration Around the Globe

Kraken Accused of Operating Unregistered Platform by SEC; CBDC Exploration Around the Globe

Nov 21, 2023

Former Twitch CEO Tapped as New OpenAI Chief; Crypto Friendly Javier Milei Wins Argentine Presidency

Former Twitch CEO Tapped as New OpenAI Chief; Crypto Friendly Javier Milei Wins Argentine Presidency

Nov 20, 2023

Bitcoin's Roller Coaster Week; State of Web3 Gaming in 2023

Bitcoin's Roller Coaster Week; State of Web3 Gaming in 2023

Nov 17, 2023