Bitcoin (BTC) slid under the $63,000 mark early Tuesday as profit-taking from a weekend rally extended into a second-day, bringing down the broader crypto market.
The driving motivation behind the changes was “how to scale DeFi to gigantic size” and grow a decentralized stablecoin, Rune Christensen said in an interview with CoinDesk.
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Aug. 27, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
The recent cryptocurrency bull market has created more than 88,000 new crypto millionaires and six crypto billionaires, according to a report by New World Wealth and Henley & Partners.
A key metric by which officials set rates shows the potential to cut rates by 175 basis points over the next nine months. If so, that’s likely to drive the prices of bitcoin and ethereum higher, says Scott Garliss.