Joining the spot Bitcoin ETF wave, asset manager Valkyrie throws its hat in the ring 🚀🚀

https://www.btctimes.com/news/valkyrie-investments-joins-wave-of-companies-applying-for-spot-bitcoin-etfs

The usual please

Today, MicroStrategy got back to breakeven on their investment of 140,000 #BTC

In case you were wondering

Amount of #bitcoin on exchanges:

- 2015: 500,000
- 2016: 1,000,000
- 2017: 1,500,000
- 2018: 2,500,000
- 2019: 3,000,000
- 2020: 3,100,000
- 2021: 2,500,000
- 2022: 2,000,000
- 2023: 1,860,000

Something changed in 2021👀

🚨 JUST IN: BitGo has decided to terminate its acquisition of Prime Trust 😮

This coincides with rumors of potential actions being taken against Prime Trust by state regulators 👀

💥 BREAKING: According to Coinmetro, PrimeTrust has "temporarily suspended USD deposits and withdrawals"❗️

Yet another reminder of how important it is to self-custody your #Bitcoin

🇫🇷 JUST IN: As per Reuters, France's 2nd biggest bank Credit Agricole to offer #Bitcoin custody 👀

Two years ago, the Managing Director of Credit Agricole said #Bitcoin would be worth less than a dollar by 2025.

Today his bank received approval to custody Bitcoin for their clients.

🟠JUST IN: Jack Dorsey and Spiral's #Bitcoin Lightning Development Kit announces the LDK Node.

Enabling users "to quickly and easily get a Lightning node up and running within a day" he said.

Second biggest #Bitcoin outflow on Kraken exchange yesterday - $225M in Bitcoin were withdrawn 👀

Adam Back and BTC Sessions discuss the cypherpunk ethos at the Oslo Freedom Forum 🙌

🇩🇪 NEW: #Bitcoin logo projected on Hamburg Opera in Germany!

ICYMI: The IMF said that while a few countries have banned #Bitcoin, "this approach may not be effective in the long run."

❗️JUST IN: Nevada regulators claim Prime Trust's overall financial condition has "deteriorated to a critically deficient level" and it is "unsafe" to continue to operate.

Prime Trust was unable to honor customer withdrawals yesterday and have a NEGATIVE $12 million stockholder's equity position 😮

⚡️The Lightning Network is closing in on new All Time Highs with a current capacity of 5,608 #bitcoin 🙌

#Bitcoin price may fluctuate, but the hashrate is up only 🚀

Credit for the graphic goes to @MitchellHODL

On this day 5 years ago…

“Today, we are having a FUNERAL for Bitcoin.” - CNBC

Bitcoin price: $6,027

Wondering what she thinks about it now