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Bitcoin Falls Below $60K as Cryptocurrencies Tumble, Barbados Ambassador Explains Why the Country Is Setting Up Embassy in the Metaverse

Nov 16, 2021

“First Mover” hosts speak to Barbados Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Gabriel Abed as the country says it will become the first sovereign nation to set up an embassy in the metaverse.

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Digital Currency Group Shutters TradeBlock; State of Crypto Hacks in 2023

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Digital Currency Group Shutters TradeBlock; State of Crypto Hacks in 2023

May 26, 2023

Do Kwon Will Remain in Detention; Ripple President Addresses SEC Lawsuit

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Do Kwon Will Remain in Detention; Ripple President Addresses SEC Lawsuit

May 25, 2023

Ledger CEO on Key Recovery Rollout Delay; Bitcoin Poised to Post First Losing Month of 2023

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Ledger CEO on Key Recovery Rollout Delay; Bitcoin Poised to Post First Losing Month of 2023

May 24, 2023

FTX CEO's Legal Billings Hint at Comeback for Crypto Exchange; Bitcoin's Reaction to Debt Ceiling Stalemate

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FTX CEO's Legal Billings Hint at Comeback for Crypto Exchange; Bitcoin's Reaction to Debt Ceiling Stalemate

May 23, 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.

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Lawrence Lewitinn joined CoinDesk as Managing Editor for Markets in December 2019. Lawrence is a seasoned financial journalist and a former Wall Street trader. Over the course of his career, he's worked at CNBC, TheStreet, Yahoo, the Observer and crypto publication Modern Consensus. Lewitinn holds positions of $200 or less in over 120 cryptocurrencies.

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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Digital Currency Group Shutters TradeBlock; State of Crypto Hacks in 2023

Digital Currency Group Shutters TradeBlock; State of Crypto Hacks in 2023

May 26, 2023

Do Kwon Will Remain in Detention; Ripple President Addresses SEC Lawsuit

Do Kwon Will Remain in Detention; Ripple President Addresses SEC Lawsuit

May 25, 2023

Ledger CEO on Key Recovery Rollout Delay; Bitcoin Poised to Post First Losing Month of 2023

Ledger CEO on Key Recovery Rollout Delay; Bitcoin Poised to Post First Losing Month of 2023

May 24, 2023

FTX CEO's Legal Billings Hint at Comeback for Crypto Exchange; Bitcoin's Reaction to Debt Ceiling Stalemate

FTX CEO's Legal Billings Hint at Comeback for Crypto Exchange; Bitcoin's Reaction to Debt Ceiling Stalemate

May 23, 2023

Bitcoin Sees Tightest Price Range in Months; Polygon Co-Founder on Web3 Outlook

Bitcoin Sees Tightest Price Range in Months; Polygon Co-Founder on Web3 Outlook

May 22, 2023

Ripple Exec Discusses CBDC Platform Rollout; Axie Infinity Game Debuts on Apple App Store in Key Markets

Ripple Exec Discusses CBDC Platform Rollout; Axie Infinity Game Debuts on Apple App Store in Key Markets

May 19, 2023

Bitcoin Back Above $27K Amid Optimism on Debt-Ceiling; MakerDAO Founder on Endgame Update

Bitcoin Back Above $27K Amid Optimism on Debt-Ceiling; MakerDAO Founder on Endgame Update

May 18, 2023

Bitcoin Slips Below $27K Amid Debt Ceiling Talks; Pudgy Penguins CEO on NFT Marketplace

Bitcoin Slips Below $27K Amid Debt Ceiling Talks; Pudgy Penguins CEO on NFT Marketplace

May 17, 2023

EU’s Crypto Legal Framework Gets Another Greenlight; Bitcoin Hovers Around $27K

EU’s Crypto Legal Framework Gets Another Greenlight; Bitcoin Hovers Around $27K

May 16, 2023

Bitcoin Bounces Back Above $27K; Binance Plans Exit From Canada

Bitcoin Bounces Back Above $27K; Binance Plans Exit From Canada

May 15, 2023