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15th August: Crypto & Coffee at 8 🎙️
🚀 Hedera HBAR 🚀 Grayscale Bitcoin ETF decision! 💥 BITMAIN’s Antminer S21 ❗CocaCola NFT on Coinbase layer 2 Network

⚡ Hedera HBAR to the 🚀 after the U.S. Federal Reserve Board instant payments platform FedNow added “Dropp,” a Hedera-based micropayments platform, as a service provider. The token has now jumped nearly 50% over the past two months. More info via CoinDesk here https://lnkd.in/dgCckgKZ

❗ Check out Blockchain DXB’s Crypto & Coffee at 8 where explore this in detail and share our commentary on it.

💥 Grayscale Bitcoin ETF decision could be made this week
Scott Johnson, a general partner of Van Buren Capital, explained via Twitter that law clerks in the United States District Courts generally cycle out in August, pushing judges to clear out the caseload “before the new guard arrives.” Tweet here https://lnkd.in/dH463A3B He noted that 30 out of 32 cases in March of 2021 and 2022 were heard by United States District Courts within 160 days of oral testimony, which also landed them in August, adding that it has also been 160 days since Grayscale delivered its oral arguments in its suit against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on March 7.

❗ Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart, CFA, CAIA says the decision could even come as early as Aug. 15, https://lnkd.in/diZYt8SB

Source for both news is via Cointelegraph https://lnkd.in/duDnqWvx

❗ Could it be possible U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission delays the ETF?

❗ Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz Says Bitcoin ETF Approval Is A Matter Of ‘When, Not If’ More info via Insider https://lnkd.in/dQ_hHVfq

⚡ However former SEC Attorney John Reed Stark have further dampened optimism about the regulator approving any of the pending Spot Bitcoin ETF. More info via NEWSBTC https://lnkd.in/dX_PjY5A Listen to our episode on this.
 

❗ Is a surveillance-sharing agreement with Coinbase sufficient to prevent market manipulation?

❗ A GOP-led administration could bring about the approval of a Spot Bitcoin ETF.

🟠 Bitcoin Inc. has reported that BITMAIN, intends to unveil a cutting-edge bitcoin (BTC) miner at the 2023 World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) in Hong Kong this coming Septembe