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Today's must-reads Top Shelf  JUMP, BOY: Mark Cuban spoke on Ellen DeGeneres’ daytime talkshow about “doja-coin,” and Elon Musk tweeted about dogecoin ahead of his upcoming "Saturday Night Live" appearance this weekend, sending the meme cryptocurrency soaring. DOGE is up some 15% day over day at press time. Meanwhile, dogecoin miners are seeing daily revenues well above $3 million. BTC BUY: A South Korean-Japanese video game publisher, Nexon, said it bought $100 million in bitcoin using corporate reserves. The company spent less than 2% of its cash on hands to buy coins at an average price of $58,226. Separately, Goldman Sachs identified 19 blockchain and cryptocurrency-related stocks that have outperformed the S&P 500 this year. MIXING IT UP: U.S. officials have arrested the alleged operator of Bitcoin Fog, a transaction concealer, on allegations of laundering nearly $336 million in bitcoin over 10 years. This is reportedly the first time prosecutors have moved against a bitcoin mixing service. DEFI DEMAND: Ether (ETH) now makes up 27% of Genesis’ loan book, up from 15.5% last quester, as clients deploy capital into decentralized finance protocols. Though total loans grew, the company reduced lending rates for bitcoin citing “lackluster demand.” (Genesis and CoinDesk share a parent company.)
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Read more about CoinDesk Indexes, the industry standard in crypto benchmarks. Putting the news in perspective The Takeaway  The Mental Health Closet Reinventing money, the financial system, the internet and the enterprise is fun. But sometimes the workload can take its toll.
“My life is always spending. Personal life gets affected a lot. And this is not only for me,” he said. “Everybody who is doing anything significant in crypto is going through the same situation.”
"You are working in the finance industry and you are working in a startup – both are extremely excruciating things, but together in one job. It has been very taxing. On a personal level and professional level, I feel like I have aged a lot.”
“This is really different. If you are in middle management in any other industry, you're not experiencing so many highs and lows. It's very intensely stressful yet exciting. But because it's new, we still don't even know what the impacts of mental health are on for those individuals in this industry.”
One, look after yourself. Jeff Wilser wrote an easy 15-point guide to staying sane while trading crypto here.
Two, look out for your work colleagues. They may be less happy than their emojis and Slack comments suggest.
And three, if you are a manager, think about ways to offer extra help and time off, and even in-house counseling. The therapist we spoke to said the crypto industry can lead the way on mental health in the workplace, ending stigmas for good.
– Ben Schiller
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