• Spot gold rises 0.5% to three-week high of $2,675/oz - [DB]
• GBP/USD falls below 1.30 after CPI data, hitting a near two-month low - [DB]
• Italy to increase capital gains tax on Bitcoin from 26% to 42% - [Tree]
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• $1B (+5%) added to $BTC open interest in 4 hours as price rises 2.5% - [EI]
• MicroStrategy ($MSTR) shares have risen 1,540% since 2020, outperforming all companies in the S&P 500 - [CTG]
• Radiant loses over $50M due to cross-chain backdoor exploit - [Zoomer]
• Bitwise submits updated S-1 application for its Spot XRP ETF - [PN]
• Robinhood to enable Bitcoin futures trading in its app - [AGGR]
• Robinhood to support CME Bitcoin and Ether futures - [Zoomer]
• BlackRock (IBIT) reports daily BTC flows of +$391.8M - [Tree]
• ETF flows for October 16, 2024: Bitcoin ETFs see $456.9M net inflows; Ethereum ETFs report $24.2M net inflows - [EI]
• ECB cuts deposit facility rate by 25 bps to 3.25% - [DB]
• US September retail sales rise 0.4% MoM (est. +0.3%); ex-auto sales up 0.5% (est. +0.1%); ex-autos and gas rise 0.7% (prev. 0.2%); 'control group' sales increase 0.7% (prev. 0.3%) - [DB]
• US jobless claims at 241K for the week ending October 12; continuing claims at 1.867M for the week ending October 5 - [DB]
• S&P 500 rises 0.6% at the open, NASDAQ gains 0.9% - [DB]
• FBI arrests Alabama man for January 2024 SEC X hack that increased Bitcoin's value - [Tree]
• FBI arrests individual behind SEC Twitter hack that posted fake ETF approval - [DB]
• Worldcoin rebrands as World and World Network - [Tree]
• The Minister of Justice, Bojan Božović, announced that the decision to extradite Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon will be revealed by the end of Sunday - [Tree]