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Bitcoin is up 2% at $15,884

Ethereum is up slightly at $461

and XRP is down 0.5% at 25 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:

Stacks up 16%

US President-elect Joe biden has added former CFTC chairman and crypto enthusiast Gary Gensler to his transition team.

Chainalysis wants to help the US sell the Silk Road trove.

Binance has paid a bounty of 200k to investigators who helped with the arrest of bad actors.

Deel unveils a crypto payroll tool.

KuCoin co-founder Johnny Lyu said 84% of the funds from the recent hack have been recovered.

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