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Bitcoin hits $69k, Samani leaves Multicoin, stocks tumble

Crypto

• BTC: 69.5k (-8%) | BTC.D: 59.3% (-0.3%)

• ETH: 2065 (-6%) | BNB: 675 (-9%) | SOL: 89 (-7%) 

• Top Gainers: MYX, M

• BTC ETFs: -$545m | ETH ETFs: -$79m

• BTC touches $69k, back to 2021 high

• Treasury can’t bail out BTC: Bessent

• Exchange liquidity worryingly fragmented in sell-off

• Samani to leave Multicoin Capital

• Schumer ‘desperate’ to get crypto bill signed

• UBS outlines gradual move into tokenisation

• Fidelity’s stablecoin goes live for investors

• Tether posts record user growth in Q4

• Incognito Market founder jailed for 30 years

• Payy launches privacy L2

• Justin Sun says TRX buyback spree will continue

• Circle to enter agentic commerce

Macro & General

• NASDAQ: 22.9k (-2%), Gold: 4878 (-1%)

• Stocks tumble as tech sell-off continues

• Nvidia AI chip sales to China stalled by US

• Silver crashes 22% in two hours

• Google falls 3% despite strong earnings

• SpaceX wants to join indices ASAP

• US, Iran nuclear talks back on

• Economic surprise index hits highest since 2023

• Services sector grows fastest since 2024

• Anthropic wont put ads in Claude, mocks OpenAI

• SC allows new California voting map for midterms

• Trump, Xi discuss Taiwan, trade ahead of summit

• Putin, Xi tout ties, trade in video call

Left Curve Corner

• Hot coins: WAR

• Hot NFTs: mfer, Veefriends

• CFTC declares do-over on prediction markets

• Nevada sues Coinbase prediction market

• CME Group eyeing its own CME coin

• S Korea monitoring ZK tokens listed on Upbit

• Rainbow Wallet ICO today

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