The most important factor now is institutional investors.

Massive OTC deals still on-going according to on-chain metrics, and Coinbase outflow hit 24k $BTC yesterday.

Binance Korea is shutting down just eight months after its launch — link

PayPal drops plans to acquire crypto firm BitGo — link

Google Scholar articles published mentioning Bitcoin:

2009: 83
2010: 136
2011: 218
2012: 424
2013: 868
2014: 2,070
2015: 2,820
2016: 3,380
2017: 6,460
2018: 11,500
2019: 20,300
2020: 18,900

— link

The #Ethereum blockchain recently achieved a major milestone as it surpassed the 50 million addresses with a balance mark.

But not only has the network has been growing in terms of holders, as the number of on-chain transactions is showing levels not seen since Jan, of 2018 — link

The number of #Bitcoin addresses holding at least 1 BTC on Christmas Eve.

Year Progress:
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 98%

Btc chart in Argentinian Pesos is madness

If you don't understand money, it's gonna be hard to become rich.

Chainlink just had its largest exchange inflow spike of 2020, and altcoins in general are showing some serious signs of trader panic.

1inch Exchange token is almost launching.

In addition to the 1inch token, 1inch distribution contract and a set of governance and staking contracts were deployed.
Get ready to give liquidity into pools with YFI, USDT, USDC, WBTC, DAI, and ETH on Mooniswap to farm 1inch.

All wallets that have interacted with 1inch until December, 24, midnight (UTC), will receive 1INCH tokens as long as they meet one of the following conditions: at least one trade before September, 15, OR at least 4 trades in total OR trades for a total of at least $20.

https://1inch-exchange.medium.com/1inch-token-is-released-e69ad69cf3ee

Pro-Bitcoin Regulator to Replace SEC Chairman Jay Clayton — link

Around this time 12 years ago, Satoshi was putting the finishing touches on the first #bitcoin  release!

Funds raised via ICOs:

2014: $30M
2015: $9M
2016: $257M
2017: $6,558M
2018: $21,621M
2019: $3,255M
2020: $95M

(Almost all of the ICO stats sites are offline; 2020 number could be a bit higher.) — link

Grayscale keeps adding Bitcoins to their fund. They goin' big!

Here is an overview of the last few days:

22-12-2020: +8703
23-12-2020: +12319
24-12-2020: +9603

— link

Bitstamp: In light of the SEC's recent filing alleging XRP is a security, we are going to halt XRP trading and deposits for all US customers on January 8, 2021. Other countries are not affected.

https://www.bitstamp.net/article/xrp-trading-and-deposits-be-halted-us-customers/

Bitcoin has been able to sustain above $23,000.

The IOMAP indicator supports that premise as is showing a strong level of support at the range between $23,069 and $23,377.1, where almost 900,000 addresses previously acquired 796,000 $BTC. — link

Things that didn’t exist on Christmas 15 years ago:

Bitcoin
iPhone
Twitter
Instagram
Android
iPad
App Store
Snapchat
Spotify
Airbnb
Uber