💪 MicroStrategy once again backs its words with action

The company purchased 27,200 BTC for $2 billion at an average price of approximately $74,463.

The average purchase price for 1 BTC is $42,692. The company's total balance now stands at 279,420 BTC.
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🥇 Last night, Bitcoin calmly and steadily surpassed the $89,000 level, stopping just one step away from $90,000 (new ATH - $89,530 on Binance). 🚀

BTC continues to run on the fuel of liquidated short positions. In the past 24 hours alone, shorts worth $434.44M were liquidated 🔪

📈 Meanwhile, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a record trading volume of $7.3 billion yesterday, with a net inflow of $1.1 billion 💰
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👀 Trump Seeks Crypto-Friendly Candidates for Key Government Positions — Washington Post

🙇‍♂️ Trump’s senior advisors are consulting with leaders from the crypto industry to explore possible federal policy changes. Among the candidates being considered for SEC Chair:

▪️ Daniel Gallagher — currently at Robinhood
▪️Two Republicans and SEC members, Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda
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📈 MicroStrategy Stock Hits 2000 ATH!

MicroStrategy shares have surpassed $300 for the first time since the dot-com bubble. To reach this level, the company accumulated a staggering 279,420 BTC!

👀 Meanwhile, well-known Bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff has openly accused Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy of inflating a Bitcoin bubble.
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Bitcoin is expected to peak at the end of May, coinciding with U.S. recession forecasts!

🕵️‍♂️ Copper.co analysts project Bitcoin could hit a price peak in about 200 days, around mid-2025, as it approaches the typical 756-day cycle observed in previous bull markets.

Currently, Bitcoin is at day 554 of this cycle, which began mid-2023
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🎬 A YouTube blogger from South Korea sold scam coins worth $232 million!

🇰🇷 A South Korean YouTuber with 620,000 subscribers turned his followers into unwitting investors, raking in a cool $232 million with his “consulting firm” from December 2021 to March 2023.

👀 Promising 20x returns on 28 homemade tokens (mostly worthless), he got viewers to go all in—selling property, taking out loans, and diving headfirst into the scam.

🔍The result? 15,000 victims and one wild pump & dump scheme
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💵 Tether has issued another 2 billion USDT on the Ethereum and Tron networks.

In total, Tether has issued 8 billion USDT over the past 8 days.
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🚔 FBI raids home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan

❓ Why it matters:
Polymarket is a prominent prediction betting platform that gained attention during the presidential election.

💵 Context:
Polymarket, inaccessible to Americans, reportedly helped one French trader earn nearly $50 million. The company has raised over $80 million from investors, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.

Polymarket's Response:

“This is political retribution by the outgoing administration for our accurate 2024 election market,” said a spokesperson. “Polymarket is a fully transparent market helping people understand key events.”

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Donald Trump will appoint Matt Gaetz, a supporter of the crypto industry, as U.S. Attorney General

Previously, the congressman introduced a bill allowing Americans to pay federal taxes in BTC, advocated for the deregulation of the crypto industry, and opposed SEC actions.
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⚖️ Eighteen U.S. states have filed a lawsuit against the SEC and Gary Gensler, accusing them of unconstitutional overreach in regulating cryptocurrencies.

🫡 The lawsuit, filed on Thursday afternoon in collaboration with the DeFi Education Fund—a group advocating for cryptocurrency rights—seeks to prevent the SEC from continuing its "illegal campaign to regulate beyond its authority" in the cryptocurrency space.

📝 Signed by 18 Republican attorneys general, the suit argues that the SEC has exceeded its regulatory powers under Gensler’s leadership by implementing cryptocurrency regulation without proper oversight from Congress.

The states contend that the actions of the SEC constitute a "blatant overreach of government power" and unfairly target digital assets, stifling innovation in the industry.

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🇰🇷South Korea’s top crypto exchange, Upbit, is under investigation for failing to properly verify 500,000–600,000 customer accounts!

👀 Regulators discovered cases where KYC checks were incomplete, including blurry or unverifiable ID submissions.
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🥷 Hacker Who Breached Bitfinex Gets 5 Years in Prison

⚖️ A U.S. court sentenced Ilya Lichtenstein to 5 years in prison for laundering funds from the 2016 Bitfinex hack. Authorities seized 94,643 BTC (~$3.6B in 2022) from Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan. While both admitted to money laundering, Lichtenstein denied orchestrating the hack.

👀 Despite using advanced techniques like fake IDs, darknet exchanges, and mixers, his sloppy mistakes—like linking accounts to his real name and using Coinbase—led to his capture. 🤷‍♂️
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📈 XRP rises over 20%, spurred by favorable regulatory environment, ETF filing

XRP has risen nearly 25% in the past 48 hours, according to The Block's XRP Price Page, reaching a current price of $1.13.

🪙 The coin has added nearly $20 billion to its market capitalization since the start of Nov. 15, rising to its current value of about $65 billion.
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📊 CryptoQuant analysts highlight historic liquidity inflows into crypto markets (USDT and other stablecoins moving to exchanges) following Trump’s election victory, alongside the return of retail investors to the crypto space. BTC transactions worth $100K and above have reached a 3-year high! 👀
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