Josiah Wilmoth

Josiah is the US editor at CCN. In a past life, he taught Herodotus and Boethius to high school students. He holds long-term investment positions in bitcoin and other large-cap cryptocurrencies. Follow him on Twitter or email him directly at josiah.wilmoth(at)ccn.com.

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Newsflash: Bitcoin Price Rips Past $4,100, Crypto Market Cap Hits $139 Billion

The bitcoin price broke higher on Saturday, ripping past the psychological resistance at $4,000 and briefly stretching above $4,100. The flagship cryptocurrency had been hovering in the low $3,900s …

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Dow Secures 9-Week Winning Streak, Roars Past 26,000 with Minutes to Spare

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied on Friday to rescue its nine-week winning streak, and the US stock market bellwether further crossed another milestone by edging across the 26,000 …

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Dow, Bitcoin Flash Green as US Stock Market Guns to Extend Winning Streak

Both the Dow and the bitcoin price flashed green on Friday, as the US stock market fought to extend its two-month winning streak and crypto traders mulled whether a …

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Dow Plunges 103 Points While Analysts Spar over Trade War’s Impact on US Stock Market

Thursday’s closing bell couldn’t come soon enough for the US stock market, which plunged across the board and prevented the Dow from crossing the 26,000 point threshold. Dow Recovers …

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Dow, Bitcoin Bleed Lower as Weak Economic Data Saps Trade Deal Optimism

The US stock market endured steady losses on Thursday, leaving the Dow’s eight-week winning streak on the ropes. The bitcoin price, meanwhile, continued to mount an unsuccessful push toward …

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Elon Musk Jokes about Giving Satoshi a Nobel Prize, Reveals Bitcoin Balance

Wall Street is abuzz with rumors that Apple might dip into its $245 billion war chest to purchase electric vehicle giant Tesla, but all Crypto Twitter wants to talk …

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Dow, Bitcoin Price Wobble While Trump Gives Ridiculous Stock Market Analysis

Neither the Dow nor the bitcoin price made a strong move following Wednesday’s opening bell, though US President Donald Trump’s bombastic stock market commentary provided more than enough entertainment …

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Newsflash: Bitcoin Price Hits 40-Day High, is $5,000 Next?

Bitcoin’s February rally just crossed another milestone on Tuesday when the flagship cryptocurrency touched the $4,000 mark for the first time in more than a month. The crypto market …

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Dow Futures Eye Feeble Open, But is Bitcoin on the Verge of a Historic Recovery?

The US stock market appears doomed to make a weak entry into the week’s first trading session following Monday’s Presidents’ Day holiday, as the Dow and its sister indices …

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Newsflash: Amazon Leads Massive $700 Million Funding Round in Tesla Competitor Rivian

Elon Musk and Tesla had better watch out because tech conglomerate Amazon just led a massive $700 million funding round in electric vehicle competitor Rivian. Amazon Leads Major Funding …

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Dow Futures, Bitcoin Price Teeter as US Stock Market Digests Trump’s Shutdown Deal

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and broader US stock market teetered on the brink of their previous-day closes heading into the week’s final trading session. Wall Street continued to …

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Declares Victory after Amazon Yanks HQ2 from New York

US House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wasted no time in declaring victory after Amazon backed out of a $3 billion deal that would have seen the Jeff Bezos-led tech conglomerate …

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Newsflash: Amazon Trashes Plans for NYC Headquarters, Caves to Pressure from Ocasio-Cortez

Caving to pressure form local politicians and special interest groups, tech conglomerate Amazon has trashed a plan to build a new corporate headquarters in New York City. Amazon Caves …

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Dow Falls 175 Points on Awful Retail Sales Data While Bitcoin Price Continues Slow Bleed

A historically-abysmal decline in consumer spending crushed the US stock market on Thursday, causing the Dow to open to triple-digit losses just hours after it looked like the index …

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Newsflash: Bitcoin Basher Jamie Dimon & JP Morgan Just Launched Their Own Cryptocurrency

One of Wall Street’s fiercest bitcoin critics may have been playing us all along. JP Morgan Creates ‘JPM Coin’ Cryptocurrency JP Morgan, the gargantuan investment bank led by Jamie …

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Dow Sneaks Higher, Bitcoin Price Holds the Line as US Stock Market Clears Major Hurdle

The Dow added to Tuesday’s blockbuster rally, and the S&P 500 cleared a key technical hurdle in what is shaping up to be another strong day for the US …

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Dow Surges 200 Points after Congress Plays Ball on Wall, But Bitcoin Price Slinks Lower

Dow futures pounded more than 200 points higher and US stock market traders collectively breathed a sigh of relief ahead of Tuesday’s open after congressional negotiators announced that they …

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Dow Jumps 100 Points as Trump White House Whipsaws on Trade War

The Dow rallied more than 100 points on Monday after the Trump White House whipsawed on the ongoing US-China trade war, providing the US stock market with a jolt …

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Why This Unholy Trinity of State-Run Crypto Projects Could Poison Donald Trump’s Stance on Bitcoin

For a man as verbose as US President Donald Trump, the former real estate developer and reality television star has had little to say about bitcoin. However, there are …

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Newsflash: Bitcoin Price Smashes Past $3,700, How High Will it Go?

The bitcoin price smashed through $3,700 as the cryptocurrency market assembled one of its largest intraday recoveries in recent memory. Bitcoin had entered the US trading session on a …

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Trump’s Trade War Bombshell Pummels Dow, But Bitcoin Mounts Recovery

The battered US stock market enters the week’s final trading session with little hope of patching its previous-day wounds. Rather, trade war pessimism looks poised to deal further blows …

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Is Kudlow Shorting the Dow? Stock Market Plunges as Top Trump Adviser Says US & China ‘Miles’ Apart on Trade

The Dow’s mid-week sell-off took an even steeper turn on Thursday after White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow broke from the Trump administration talking point that the United States …

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Dow Futures Dive, But This Analyst Says the Bitcoin Price’s Outlook is Even More Bleak

The US stock market appears ready to extend Wednesday’s declines into Thursday, with Dow futures flashing triple-digit declines ahead of the opening bell. Prices remain flat in the cryptocurrency …

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Why This Former JP Morgan Bitcoin Bear Says Crypto Could Make a Major Comeback

Less than two months ago, JP Morgan analyst Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou found himself firmly inside the crowded group of Wall Street’s bitcoin bears. Now, he’s predicting that the flagship cryptocurrency …

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