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My poor dog is sick and in the hospital getting treatment.

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The US economy could be shrinking at its fastest rate since the COVID-19 lockdown, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s GDPNow model, which is now forecasting America’s gross domestic product to fall 2.8% in the first quarter.

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More troubling revelations have emerged since the meltdown of the Milei-endorsed Libra token, notably that Libra was an “open secret” in memecoin insider circles and that some members of the Jupiter decentralized exchange knew about the token launch two weeks in advance.

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“In my view, these activities should fall firmly within the jurisdiction of law enforcement agencies,” she added.

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The Illinois Senator said the scam represented an “alarming trend of crypto ATM fraud” among the more than 30,000 machines in the US. He introduced the Crypto ATM Fraud Prevention Act in an effort to place some “common sense guardrails” against fraud against primarily senior citizens.

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The test token, called Snowfall (CRACK), seemingly named after a 2017 TV series of the same name dramatizing the 1980s crack epidemic, shot up to a peak value of $5.4 million an hour after trenchdiver’s post, according to DEX Screener.

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The blockchain selection process has proven controversial. A working group whittled a spec list of 25 blockchains down to nine candidates that met the commission’s criteria, with Solana and Avalanche being the top-scoring chains. However, Cardano was knocked out of contention, and Wyoming resident and founder Hoskinson took issue with the transparency of the process in an opinion piece for CoinDesk.

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Two US Republican Party lawmakers are calling on the Treasury Department to provide answers to how a Chinese state-sponsored entity hacked and accessed employee workstations.

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If governments are competing to secure their own stockpiles of Bitcoin, would we say goodbye to the four-year boom-bust cycle in crypto prices that many attribute to Bitcoin’s halving?

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“There is something going on here; our currency is getting debased, and we are losing our purchasing power,” Sim said.

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At the same time, he says the city’s fixed-income securities, worth $3.1 billion, had lost $185 million in market value.

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Now, key levels include Bitcoin’s 21-day simple moving average (SMA), currently at $94,560.

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The “Kimchi premium” — the difference in spot BTC price between South Korean exchanges and others — fell to its most negative in history before resetting. Moreover, the BTC/KRW trading pair flash crashed to roughly $78,000 on the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange BitHumb.

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Flash volatility at the previous Wall Street open had come courtesy of political turmoil in South Korea, which briefly sent the price below $94,000.

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Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed that BTC/USD was approaching $97,000, which is up 1% on the day.

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Market observers noted the temporary crisis highlighted the vulnerability of South Korea’s cryptocurrency markets to liquidity shocks, particularly during times of political instability.

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ollowing the reversal, Bitcoin prices rebounded, trading at around 135 million won (about $95,000) at the time of publication.

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Hours after the martial law declaration, 190 lawmakers in South Korea’s parliament voted to nullify the martial law declaration. Yoon accepted the decision and lifted the order, easing tensions.

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The trader also highlighted massive sell pressure on all instruments behind the sudden drop. Despite this, they said the market overreacted, and the extreme price drop would not have happened if more liquidity providers had been participating.

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South Korean traders paid the price for limiting the market to only a few players, according to trader Ltrd, who said the price volatility could have been mitigated with broader market maker participation.

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