In case anyone's unsure who was going to win "The Best Performing Asset of 2020" award... #Bitcoin

Vitalik - Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond — link

On what is normally the slowest trading day of the week, #Ethereum cracked $700 on a great #altcoin Sunday for the first time since May 19, 2018. $ETH miners balances are at a 2-year low & supply on exchanges at a 1.5-year low. Both great validators. — link

$117 million worth of Bitcoin was just moved on the blockchain with a $50 fee.

How much would PayPal or a major bank charge, and all the paperwork that goes with it? — link

Hyperbitcoinization doesn’t end with a few companies diversifying 1% of their portfolio’s into BTC.

It ends with full corporate and governmental capitulation.

Bitcoin is the ONLY investment and it’s not even an investment.

25k is nothing. — link

ETH Futures Open Interest breaks ATH $2.21 Billion.

Israel Tax Authority targets cryptocurrency profits — link

Year Progress:
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 99%

In 43 days, the CME $ETH futures will go live.

$ETH is flowing out from centralized exchanges.

It might go to DEX, staking contract, custody, etc. Whatever it is, it's good for $ETH as decreasing market supply.

Whales might use DEX for dumping, but at the same time, DEX drives Defi growth. — link

Crypto asset manager 21Shares removes XRP from its ETP products — link

Major XRP delistings so far (some only for U.S. customers):

• Exchanges - Bitstamp, CrossTower, Beaxy, OSL
• Market makers/OTC - Jump, Galaxy, B2C2
• Asset managers - Bitwise, 21Shares
• Payment processors - Simplex

More will be coming in the next few weeks. — link

$COVER exploited/hacked:

tl;dr infinite minting bug on their incentives contract

stake > unstake + claim > re-stake > repeat — link

https://etherscan.io/token/0x5d8d9f5b96f4438195be9b99eee6118ed4304286?a=0xf05ca010d0bd620cc7c8e96e00855dde2c2943df

COVER is OVER

https://etherscan.io/tx/0xca135d1c4268d6354a019b66946d4fbe4de6f7ddf0ff56389a5cc2ba695b035f

Binance Will Suspend COVER Trading and COVER Deposits — link

The Obtained Funds from LP has been returned to COVER — link

Comparison of Bitcoin's Price Returns after the last Two Halvings

28 million tweets containing the word "bitcoin" were posted in 2020 - an increase of 29% over 2019. — link

Bitcoin miners are currently earning $1,000,000 per hour.

This is an increase of 185% since the halving.

The last time miner revenue was this high, was in July 2019. Note that block rewards were twice as high than today. — link

Coinbase will suspend trading in XRP on January 19 — link

XRP's volume in 2020