COINDESK DAILY: Will Bitcoin Skyrocket If Trump Returns to Office?; WazirX Hacker Moves Stolen Funds to Tornado Cash
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🗓️ 9 September 2024
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| 0:00.0 | How will the price of Bitcoin react to the upcoming election and $11 million in stolen ether heads to tornado cash? |
| 0:07.9 | This is Coin Desk Daily. I'm your host, Jen Sanassi. |
| 0:15.7 | Could Bitcoin soar if Trump is elected president? |
| 0:19.4 | According to a Bernstein research report, Bitcoin is expected to reach new highs later this year and the cryptocurrency could hit $90,000 by Q4 if former President Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office. |
| 0:32.4 | On the other hand, the report said that if Kamala Harris wins, the Bitcoin price is expected to break its current |
| 0:38.8 | floor around the $50,000 level and could test the $30,000 to $40,000 range. |
| 0:44.9 | The broker noted that Trump has been very vocal about making America the Bitcoin and |
| 0:49.2 | crypto capital of the world and has mentioned digital assets at every policy speech he is made. |
| 0:55.3 | The North Korean entity behind India's biggest crypto hack has moved $11 million in stolen ether |
| 1:01.8 | to mixing service tornado cash. Wallet data tracked by Arkham shows that over 5,000 eth from |
| 1:08.2 | July's attack on the exchange was moved to a new address on Monday morning. |
| 1:12.8 | Then, $1.2 million in tokens from that address were sent to tornado cash over five different transfers. |
| 1:20.0 | In July, Wazer X was hit by a security breach in one of its multi-sig wallets, |
| 1:24.7 | causing over $100 million in Shiba, In Inu and $52 million in ether and other |
| 1:30.1 | assets to be drained from the exchange. And Binance subsidiary Toco Crypto in Indonesian |
| 1:35.5 | Crypto Exchange has obtained a full license as a physical crypto asset trader from the country's |
| 1:40.7 | commodity futures trading regulatory agency. Bin acquired token crypto in late 2022, |
| 1:46.8 | having previously been a majority shareholder of the company. |
| 1:50.0 | That's it for CoinDesk Daily. |
| 1:51.3 | Get more updates on CoinDesk.com, and we'll see you next time. |
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