👀 Bitcoin starts 2024 nearing $45k.
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👀 BTC price has surpassed $44,800, reaching a new high since April 2022.

👀 The price of BTC exceeded $45,000, increasing by 6.02% in 24 hours.

👀 In the last 12 hours, US$102 million worth of contracts across the network were liquidated, of which US$86.7213 million worth of short orders were liquidated. coinglass.com

💰👀 Liang Xiangrong acquired a 6.5% stake in BC Technology for almost 249 million yuan, becoming the third largest shareholder. news.mingpao

📊 Gresslive: Options data shows that the highest IV continues to be for the option expiring on January 12, indicating that institutional investors still believe the second week of 2023 will be the point in time for spot approval BTC-ETF.

🎁🥳 Scallop launched the airdrop system.

🏴‍☠️🥳 Orbit hacker exchanged stolen 30 million #USDT and 230.9 #WBTC for 17,250 #ETH ($39.7 million) at an average price of $2,301.
He now stands to gain another $1.45 million in unrealized profits thanks to ETH's 3.8% price increase over the past 24 hours.

👀 #ETF #BTC Guosheng: Considering the rise in gold prices due to the launch of GOLD-ETF, the spot BTC-ETF is worth looking forward to. mp.weixin.qq.com

🥳 #BTC #BRC20 Unisat Wallet: On January 31, 2024, a white paper will be released that will be the most significant gift we can give since last February to brc-20, Ordinals, BTC and all members of our community.

🕵️‍♂️ 6 hours ago Wintermute contributed 1.45 million #ARB ($2.47 million) on OKX at a price of $1.69. In total, they contributed 4.72 million ARB ($7.61 million) to the exchanges during its 10% rise.

🕵️‍♂️ Smart whale sold 800 #BTC ($36.1 million) at a price of $45,176 3 hours ago. This amount was accumulated at an average price of $19,435.
He still owns 2.2 thousand BTC ($99.31 million), and the estimated profit is $101.2 million (+130%).

📈 #ARB Arbitrum One TVL reached a record level of $10 billion. l2beat.com

🥳 #BEND BendDAO submitted #BDIN distribution plans.

🔮👀 Matrixport: Expect #BTC to hit $50,000 in January, with altseason potential and funding rates reaching +66%.

👀 #APT Aptos: Version 1.9 will be tested for several weeks in preparation for release in January.

🥳 #SEI Sei V2 function code is complete and is being reviewed. twitter.com

🕵️‍♂️ $2.4M #LDO transferred from Galaxy Digital to Binance Tx

🏧📉 Coin ATM Radar: The number of crypto ATMs as of January 1, 2024 is 33,628 compared to 37,827 registered as of January 1, 2023, a ~11.1% decrease. This broke a 10-year trend in which the number of crypto ATMs increased at the start of each year. cointelegraph

📈👀 Total open interest in #BTC futures reached $19.61 billion coinglass.com

🏴‍☠️👀 Orbit: Our team tracks wallet addresses where stolen assets are stored. We promise to inform the community as soon as action is taken on them.