The dollar headed for its best annual performance in nearly a decade as a stronger US economy damped expectations of a Federal Reserve rate-cutting cycle and President-elect Donald Trump's threat of tough tariffs supported bullish bets on the greenback. The Bloomberg dollar index is up more than 7 per cent so far this year, its best performance since 2015. All developed world currencies weakened against the dollar as other central banks had to step in to support their economies.
A 2009 bitcoin miner began transferring bitcoins to cryptocurrency exchange Kraken three weeks ago after almost a decade of account silence. So far, the wallet has transferred a total of 10 bitcoins in three transactions, the latest of which was sent on Tuesday. According to data from the on-chain analysis tool Arkham, the miner transferred bitcoin several times between 2011 and 2014, but then the account stopped moving. Recently, the frequent activity of such wallets dating from the "Satoshi er...