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Leading cryptocurrencies rallied alongside stocks on Thursday after the White House confirmed a meeting between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
Bitcoin hit an intraday high of $111,288.59, but failed to push beyond, falling back into the $110,000 zone. Trading volume dropped 30% in the last 24 hours.
Ethereum oscillated in the $3,800-$3,900 range, while trading activity remained on the lower side. XRP and Solana also gained momentum.
Liquidations hit $225 million in the last 24 hours, with over $130 million in bearish shorts positions erased from the cryptocurrency market, according to Coinglass. 
Bitcoin's open interest spiked 2.08% over the last 24 hours to $69.38 billion. However, since the month began, the open interest has plummeted by nearly 17%.
"Fear" sentiment prevailed in the market, according to the Crypto Fear & Greed Index.
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The global cryptocurrency market capitalization stood at $3.71 trillion, following an increase of 2.25% in the last 24 hours.
Stocks rallied on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 144.20 points, or 0.31%, to finish at 46,734.61. The S&P 500 jumped 0.58% to close at 6,738.44, while the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite finished up 0.25% at 22,941.80.
The rebound came after the White House confirmed that Trump will meet Xi next week in South Korea, fuelling investors' optimism amid trade tensions between the two countries 
Blockchain analytics firm CryptoQuant noted that the Bitcoin Short-Term Holder Spent Output Profit Ratio has fallen to 0.992, its lowest level since April.
The indicator, which measures realized profit or loss for short-term investors, suggested that weak hands were currently selling their BTC at a loss.
"A decisive reclaim and hold of the STH-SOPR above the 1.0 level would be necessary to confirm a bullish trend shift," CryptoQuant stated.
Widely followed cryptocurrency analyst and trader Michaël van de Poppe said Bitcoin would "chop" until key macroeconomic data such as the Consumer Price Index and the Federal Reserve policy meeting next week.
"This cycle is far from over and I think we’ll start to see more strength, again, when Bitcoin breaks north of $112,000 as a crucial level," the analyst projected.
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CONNECTICUT, USA — Two lottery tickets in Connecticut dished out $100,000 and $50,000 prizes in respective drawings Wednesday.
The winning numbers for the Cash5 pari-mutuel game were 3-12-20-24-27. One ticket matched all five numbers, winning the top prize of $100,000, CT Lottery reported. 
The $100,000 prize-winning ticket was sold at 7 Eleven on 461 New Britain Ave. in Newington. It is currently unclaimed.
There was a total of 2,858 Cash5 tickets that won prizes in Connecticut. Drawings for that game occur nightly.
According to the CT Lottery, the Powerball winning numbers were 18-37-52-54-60, with a Powerball number of 12.
One ticket sold in the state matched four white balls and the Powerball, winning a $50,000 prize. 
If the Power Play feature was used, which had a X2 multiplier for the Powerball drawing, it would have doubled the prize to $100,000.
Five Connecticut Powerball tickets matched four white balls and won $100. Two of those tickets used the Power Play feature, bringing their prize to $200.
Another five Connecticut tickets matched three white balls and the Powerball, winning $100. One of those tickets had the Power Play feature, resulting in a $200 prize.
There was a total of 6,851 winning Powerball tickets sold in Connecticut. Outside of the state, one ticket in Delaware won a $1 million prize in the drawing.
The next Powerball drawing is Saturday, with an estimated jackpot of $344 million and cash value of $163.7 million.
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Footage showing two men appears to have been filmed from nearby window in museum
The slow-motion getaway of two thieves from the Louvre clutching €88m (£76m) of France’s crown jewels was captured on video, it has emerged – the latest dramatic twist to the country’s most spectacular heist in decades.
The 36-second clip, which Le Parisien newspaper said it had verified, shows two men dressed in black, one wearing a yellow hi-vis vest and the other a motorcycle helmet, slowly descending on a furniture lift from the museum’s Apollo gallery.
It appears to have been filmed from a nearby window in the museum, looking on to the Quai François Mitterrand where the thieves had earlier parked a stolen truck with a 30-metre (90ft) extendable ladder and basket lift that they used to access the first-floor gallery.
“The individuals are on scooters,” a voice – possibly that of a security guard – is heard to say, apparently into a walkie-talkie. “They are going to leave, they are going to leave.” Seconds later, the men can be seen heading off on two scooters.
“They are leaving,” the male voice then says, while a different voice exclaims: “Damn, there we go – the police.”
Two of the four-man gang broke into the gallery at 9.30am on Sunday, shortly after the museum opened, smashing an apparently unsecured window and then using disc cutters to open two display cases containing the jewellery.
They made off with eight pieces including an emerald and diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave his second wife, Marie Louise, and a diadem that once belonged to the empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III.
French media have estimated the operation took less than seven minutes, with the two men who entered the gallery inside for 3 minutes and 58 seconds. France’s interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, has said more than 100 investigators are on the case.
Questioned by senators on Wednesday, the director of the world’s most visited museum, Laurence des Cars, acknowledged a “terrible failure”, admitting there was “highly insufficient” security camera coverage of the outside walls of the vast building.

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The pardon has been widely anticipated by friends, associates and the cryptocurrency industry at large
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[WASHINGTON] Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng has received a pardon from US President Donald Trump, one of the biggest moves yet by the president to fully embrace the crypto industry and give legal reprieves to some of its most prominent people.
The move marks the latest act of clemency the White House has granted to a crypto entrepreneur, underscoring how the Trump administration has positioned itself as a friend of the industry and how the president’s family has enriched itself from it. Binance assisted one of its family ventures with the launch of its stablecoin, which could yield tens of millions of US dollars a year.
Trump told reporters that Zhao was “persecuted” by the Biden administration. He added that he didn’t believe he had ever met him. “A lot of people say that he wasn’t guilty of anything,” Trump said. “I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people.”
Trump has used his power to unwind several prosecutions that were hallmarks of the former administration’s crypto enforcement agenda.
He pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was serving life in prison for allowing criminal activity to flourish on the dark web marketplace. The president also pardoned the founders of crypto exchange BitMEX.
Zhao, known as CZ, created what would become the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange when he launched Binance in 2017. He ultimately got in trouble for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering measures there, and pleaded guilty to violations in a deal with the US government that put him in jail for four months and included a US$4.3 billion settlement with Binance.
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The pardon has been widely anticipated by friends, associates and the cryptocurrency industry at large. A token associated with Binance, BNB, hit a record last month on speculation that it was imminent. It jumped again on Thursday (Oct 23) after Trump offered formal forgiveness for Zhao’s offences.
“Deeply grateful for today’s pardon and to President Trump for upholding America’s commitment to fairness, innovation, and justice,” Zhao posted on X. “Will do everything we can to help make America the Capital of Crypto.”
Asked to respond to accusations that the pardon amounted to a corrupt bargain, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the decision was “thoroughly reviewed” by White House lawyers.
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The lack of safeguards under Zhao’s leadership at Binance allowed for a wide range of misbehaviour, US authorities said when they charged him in 2023.
The exchange facilitated transactions for the military wing of Hamas, hackers and money launderers, and let some customers trade with residents of Iran in contravention of US sanctions, they said. Between 2018 and 2022, Binance processed at least 1.1 million transactions that violated US sanctions, worth about US$898 million, according to the government’s case.
Binance and Zhao have been key backers of World Liberty Financial, one of the Trump family’s crypto ventures. Binance wrote the code underpinning the project’s USD1 stablecoin, Bloomberg reported in July. That helped make USD1 usable in a US$2 billion transaction that saw an investment firm founded by the United Arab Emirates buy a stake in Binance.
Zhao did his stint at a minimum-security prison known as Lompoc in California’s Santa Barbara County. After his release, he met with Steve Witkoff, co-founder of World Liberty and the president’s Middle East envoy, Bloomberg reported.
Recently, Zhao has been travelling the world promoting the adoption of cryptocurrency in places ranging from Dubai to Pakistan. Another Zhao project is the Giggle Academy, which aims to teach young children about finance and crypto, rewarding them for performance through “soul-bound tokens”.
Under the 2023 plea deal, Zhao was forced to step down as Binance CEO though he recently caused a stir on social media by changing his title from being an ex-Binance person to a current one. His life and business partner, Yi He, is still deeply involved in Binance’s operations as chief marketing officer.
Zhao was nonetheless able to hold on to his controlling stake in the company, which soared in value immediately after Trump’s presidential victory. He now has a net worth of US$54.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
In early April, the Justice Department disbanded its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and vowed to close existing cryptocurrency investigations that do not align with the administration’s priorities.
The moves reflect the administration’s focus on toning down crypto enforcement, particularly regarding exchanges, mixing services and wallet providers. BLOOMBERG
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