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- 🔶 BTC's epic pump. Bitcoin's Monday price buildup nearly took BTC past $55k as traders doubled down on crypto bets.
- 🔺 MicroStrategy is busy. MSTR stock is surging, the company is buying even more bitcoin, and its Twitter account was hacked, leading to $440k in stolen funds.
- 🌪️ Tornado Cash facing exploit. Tornado Cash has had a challenging couple years, and things could get worse. The community has discovered that malicious code was added by a dev that could risk user deposits.
📊 Crypto stocks roar. Crypto prices spiked on the open of the US stock market, sending Bitcoin up 5.7% to set a new cycle high! The true winner is crypto equities; crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) surged 16%, Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy (MSTR) ripped 16%, and Bitcoin miner CleanSpark (CLSK) mooned 24%! Who is bidding our bags?
| Prices as of 5pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.09T | ↗ 4.6% | ↗ 5.0% |
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BTC $54,528 | ↗ 5.2% | ↗ 5.0% |
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ETH $3,171 | ↗ 2.0% | ↗ 6.7% |
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