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Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 15, 2020

Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 15, 2020

With BTC crossing into bullish territory and a new smart contract-powered tokenized DeFi Index, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!

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This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.

Today’s stories:

Bitcoin (BTC) has crossed into the bullish territory but may remain vulnerable to another sell-off in stocks.

Data company DeFi Pulse and investment-minded Set Protocol have created a permissionless index of the very best DeFi tokens, called the DeFiPulse Index.

Michael Saylor, the founder of MicroStrategy, said Tuesday his company has acquired an additional $175 million in bitcoin (BTC) in a single purchase.

DeFi lending project bZx has been able to recover about $8 million in cryptocurrency from an attacker who stole the funds after exploiting a code bug over the weekend.

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