• 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]
• SEC charges Thor co-founder Matthew Moravec with unregistered sale of crypto securities - [AGGR]
• Yen falls 0.5% to 150.32 per dollar, weakest level since August 1 - [DB]
• Worldcoin co-founder Blania does not rule out future integration of the world's cryptocurrency into ChatGPT - [Tree]
• Morgan Stanley reports $272.1M in Bitcoin, representing 0.02% of total $1.2T holdings - [PN]
• ARK 21Shares (ARKB) reports daily BTC flows of +$100.2M - [Tree]
• BlackRock (IBIT) reports daily BTC flows of +$311.7M - [Tree]
• Spot gold reaches $2,700 an ounce for the first time - [DB]
• ETF flows on October 17, 2024: Bitcoin ETFs see $473.2M net inflows; Ethereum ETFs report $48.4M net inflows - [EI]
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• Bitfinex supports Plasma, a payments chain for USDT built on Bitcoin - [Zoomer]
• BlackRock purchased 14,745 Bitcoin worth $1 billion in the last 3 days and now holds a total of 385,591 Bitcoin valued at $26.55 billion - [NN]
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