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First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Soars Past $24K on Favorable CPI; Governments Focus Too Much on Crypto’s Economic Importance, Australia Academics Argue
11.8.2022
Professors from The University of Sydney say that as governments consider different initiatives, they are overlooking crypto’s social and cultural significance; bitcoin and other cryptos rise
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Snaps Its 4-Day Rally Tuesday; Troubles in Cryptoland? Not at Korea's Muted Mega-Blockchain Week
10.8.2022
The Seoul-based event offered a welcome return to in-person interaction but failed to tackle the industry's most burning themes or challenge its panelists
First Mover Asia: BTC Holds Near $24K; Why Do We Need Ethereum PoW When We Have Ethereum Classic?
9.8.2022
Crypto mega-entrepreneurs Vitalik Buterin and Justin Sun are clashing over Ethereum’s future; ether hovers over $1.7K
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Hovers Over $23K in Weekend Trading; an Edgy Environment at Seoul's Blockchain Megaweek
8.8.2022
Ether and most other major altcoins trade sideways as investors await further economic indicators
First Mover Asia: Crypto's ‘Learn-on-the-Fly’ Ethos on Display as Bridge Hack Damage Reaches $2B
5.8.2022
Bitcoin and ether kept sliding, but barely. Meanwhile a corporate partnership announcement was enough to send Coinbase shares soaring (and short-sellers running for cover)
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Snaps Losing Streak as Pelosi Taiwan Trip Passes Without Incident
4.8.2022
Solana's SOL token slides after wallet hack and Sam Reynolds provides an on-the-ground assessment of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan trip
First Mover Asia: Fed Fears and Pelosi Taiwan Trip Reverse Bitcoin's Recent Gains
3.8.2022
The mood in crypto markets had turned sunnier last week, but now any bright hopes for a strong rally are fading. PLUS: The NFT market just isn't what it used to be
First Mover Asia: Was the Metaverse All Just a Dream?
2.8.2022
Bitcoin has fallen for four straight days, but the (small-ish) scope of the price decline offers a reminder of how listless digital-asset markets have suddenly become. Sam Reynolds tots up the losses on metaverse-related tokens
First Mover Asia: BTC Dips Below $23.5K; The Crypto Bear Market Will Test Thailand’s SEC
1.8.2022
The country’s market regulator has said that stricter digital asset rules are coming to ensure that investors are protected; BTC trades slightly lower on Sunday
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin’s Recent Gains Have Been Small. What Will Drive Its Price Higher?
29.7.2022
The U.S. economy seems headed for recession, if it's not already there. But it's difficult to predict how BTC and other cryptos will perform in the weeks ahead; cryptos climb higher in Thursday trading
First Mover Asia: Crypto Companies Struggle With Layoffs, but Some See Opportunity to Add Talent; BTC, ETH Soar After Fed Rate Hike
28.7.2022
The bear market has forced multiple organizations to cut their workforces, hurting morale and weakening the companies; BTC, ETH soar
First Mover Asia: Binance Deserves Some Criticisms, but It’s Not a ‘Ponzi Scheme’; Bitcoin Tumbles
27.7.2022
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has a reasonable point in his lawsuit claiming defamation from a translated Chinese language article title; ether falls
First Mover Asia: Is DEX Efficiency a Threat to Coinbase Long-Term?; Bitcoin Sinks Below $22K
26.7.2022
Coinbase’s revenue dwarfs the decentralized exchange Uniswaps, but the two companies are generating roughly the same trading volume, and Uniswap is operating with a significantly smaller workforce
First Mover Asia: BTC Falls Below $22.4K; Coinbase Shares Remain Alluring for Institutional Investors
25.7.2022
Crypto exchange giant Coinbase's shares have plunged this year amid the bear market, but several, major institutional investors have been snapping up the stock; cryptos fall
First Mover Asia: Does Tesla Really Believe in Bitcoin?; Altcoins Rise in Thursday Trading
22.7.2022
The electric car maker became a proxy for investors looking to take a position in the cryptocurrency without buying it directly, but its recent jettisoning of $936 million of BTC suggests the company wasn’t all that committed to the asset
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Stalls as Contagion Hits Zipmex, Vauld. Will Ethereum's Merge Fix This?
21.7.2022
Bitcoin is having its best week since March, but with the Federal Reserve still in inflation-fighting mode, it seems like the only thing that can really get traders juiced up is the upcoming Ethereum Merge
First Mover Asia: Dissecting Three Arrows Capital's Fall; Ethereum Merge Spurs Continued Market Gains
20.7.2022
Thanks to the transparency of court documents, the public knows how much the beleaguered crypto hedge fund owes different creditors; the second largest crypto by market cap has risen about 50% over the past week
First Mover Asia: BTC Spikes Over $22.8K; DappRadar’s Complicated Valuation Model and the Difficulties of Assessing NFTs
19.7.2022
Bitcoin and major altcoins continued their late weekend rally; NFTs are an asset class where value has yet to be clearly defined
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Dips Below $21K; Why the Current Bear Market Differs From 2018
18.7.2022
The largest cryptocurrency had hovered well above the psychologically important threshold for the previous four days
First Mover Asia: It Won't Be Easy for Creditors to Untangle Three Arrows Case, Singapore Lawyer Says
15.7.2022
The fallout continues from the crypto industry's slump, with fresh filings from Celsius, layoffs at OpenSea and a short-squeeze in Voyager's tokens. PLUS: We talked to a Singapore-based lawyer about the Gordian knot that is the Three Arrows bankruptcy case