Hi Insiders, I hope everyone’s had a good week and made a billion on some dog-themed coin like this person did. As we gear up into Halloweekend, I wanted to remind everyone that Halloween also shares the same day as another holiday: Bitcoin Whitepaper day. On Oct. 31, 2008, an internet user by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto released a nine-page technical white paper, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Thirteen years later, without ever revealing himself, his idea turned into a borderless currency with a $1.178T market cap. Many have speculated on who the mysterious individual behind Bitcoin is. Some have even proclaimed themself to be the real Satoshi, but nobody knows for sure. So, if you’re celebrating Halloween this weekend, don’t forget to also leave some extra Sats out for the Satoshis, and you might just wake up to a bitcoin payment from a wallet with 1,148,800 unspent BTC. Happy Bitcoin Whitepaper Day / Halloween! | |  Griffin |  |
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The global crypto market cap is $2.66T 3.39%▲ with a 24-hour market volume of $134.33B 23.33%▼. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 44.20% 0.40%▼. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $62,351.39 | 2.32% ▲ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $4,402.68 | 3.64% ▲ | | 3 | Binance Coin BNB | $531.10 | 8.81%▲ | | 4 | Cardano ADA | $2.01 | 0.90%▲ | | 5 | Solana SOL | $201.44 | 2.40% ▲ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 5:30 EST
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 An NFT collector sold CryptoPunk #9998 for a record $532M to himself. The sale briefly made headlines before 124,456 ETH was returned to the buyer/seller’s wallet. More: - Had the trade been legitimate, the Punk would have beaten the current highest CryptoPunk sale by $525M.
- The collector allegedly used flash loans from several sources to purchase the Punk before using the funds from the purchase to repay the flash loans.
- While some saw the move as a marketing stunt, others have highlighted the fact that the move was a wash trade, which is illegal in traditional finance.
- CryptoPunks creator Larva Labs stated this isn’t the first time it’s happened, and they are working on removing notifications for these transactions in the future.
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TOP ETHEREUM NFT COLLECTIONS | # | Name | 24h Volume | 24h % | | 1 | Axie Infinity | $16.37M | 4.38% ▲ | | 2 | CryptoPunks | $6.10M | 1.98% ▲ | | 3 | Bored Ape Yacht Club | $3.88M | 22.35% ▲ | | 4 | BitcoinBillionaires | $3.05M | 51.87% ▲ | | 5 | Inertial Moment | $2.38M | 11.39% ▲ | Source: DappRadar, 5:30 pm EST
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NYDIG acquired UK-based Bottlepay for an estimated $280M-$300M. The total value of the deal is roughly equivalent to 3% of NYDIG's shares. More: - Bottlepay is a Lightning Network and instant payment provider for fiat and digital currencies.
- The acquisition highlights NYDIG's continued expansion into other institutional crypto offerings.
- NYDIG previously acquired commercial lender and bitcoin service provider Arctos Capital in April and crypto data provider Digital Assets Data in January of this year.
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 🎃Fresh Funding🎃 Umbrel, BTC Service Developer: $3M ⮕The seed funding round was led by OSS Capital and participated in by Andreas Antonopoulos, Slow Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Fulgur Ventures, and others. More: - Umbrel is a Bitcoin service developer that makes personal Bitcoin servers and nodes.
- Research presented by Umbrel found that 90% of lightning nodes brought online last year used their software.
- The fresh funding will be used to grow the Umbrel team and accelerate the project’s development.
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Decentraland MANA | $0.2986 | 34.57% ▲ | | 2 | Shiba Inu SHIB | $0.00007549 | 21.49% ▲ | | 3 | Basic Attention Token BAT | $0.8212 | 19.54% ▲ | | 4 | Axie Infinity AXS | $144.46 | 14.22% ▲ | | 5 | Crypto.com Coin CRO | $0.2291 | 12.45% ▲ | ▼ TOP LOSERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | XDC Network XDC | $0.09187 | 6.27%▼ | | 2 | Nexo NEXO | $2.84 | 4.78%▼ | | 3 | Secret SCRT | $9.04 | 3.99%▼ | | 4 | OKB OKB | $21.53 | 3.26%▼ | | 5 | Revain REV | $0.01587 | 3.20%▼ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 5:30 EST
*Limited to cryptocurrencies in the Top 100
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 Ethereum (ETH) reached an ATH of $4,400 just days after Bitcoin’s ATH of $66,990. Following its reemergence above $4,000, ETH spiked 16% in 24 hours. More: - Prior to today, ETH’s previous ATH was $4,380.
- The continuous rise of NFTs and the approval of EIP-1559 has primarily contributed to the rise of ETH.
- EIP-1559 has burned over 670,000 ETH ($3B) since it was approved back in August.
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 Metaverse tokens exploded following Facebook’s rebranding announcement. Tokens like Decentraland (MANA), The Sandbox (SAND), and Enjin (ENJ) saw double-digit gains. More: - Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would rebrand itself to “Meta.”
- MANA spiked nearly 50% while SAND and ENJ increased 23% and 11%, respectively.
- Following the name change, Wendys announced that it would be changing its name to Meat.
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 Dog-themed OlympusDAO fork AnubisDAO was hacked for 13,500 ETH ($60M). The attack took out all of the funds within the Anubis liquidity pool. More: - Anubis was launched on the token crowdfunding platform Copper early yesterday with the goal of creating a community-owned DeFi project.
- A core contributor to the project claimed in a now-deleted tweet that the attacker was most likely a team member acting maliciously or a victim of a phishing attack.
- The AnubisDAO team is currently investigating the attack and has offered a 1,000 ETH ($4.4M) award to anyone who can identify the attacker’s wallet.
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- AMC CEO Adam Aron posted on Twitter asking if moviegoers would be interested in using SHIB as a payment option.
- Patreon suggested at the Information’s 2021 Creator Economy Summit that it could offer social tokens in the near future.
- CMCC Global is reportedly looking to raise a $300M crypto fund with investments from Gemini’s Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
- The DOJ posted a job listing for a supervisory trial attorney to head its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET).
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 |  | Griffin McShane is a New York transplant currently living in Brooklyn, NY. He is a graduate of Providence College, where he studied both computer science and business, and the University of Maine School of Law, where he earned his JD. Beyond his work at Inside, Griffin has written articles for CoinDesk and is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). | | | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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