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Mysterious whale stacks $118M in WBTC, ‘boring’ Bitcoin, the $30-trillion RWA market

S1E198 • Aug 20, 2024 • 7m

Bitcoin is back above $60,000, and there is a lot of moaning about BTC price action being “boring,” but anyone who has spent 10 minutes in crypto will know that it’s typically short-lived, which is what several analysts are predicting. Is a break-out imminent? In other news, a mysterious whale has scooped up over $118 million in Wrapped Bitcoin amid the controversy surrounding the token, the US is looking at applying a fiat reporting mandate to crypto transfers, China has changed its AML regulations to include crypto, and is the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) a “$30 trillion opportunity?” Carve 10 minutes out of your day for all this and much more!

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    Robert Baggs is a podcast host and producer at Cointelegraph. He is a writer, speaker, and podcaster in the crypto space. He co-founded Token Gamer in 2018 and has worked with various titans of the games industry to further the application of blockchain technology.