SEC vs. Ripple case: Initial pretrial conference set for February 22 — link

JPMorgan: Basically... #Bitcoin is expensive but we don't see it going down.

New York regulator licenses GMO Internet to issue the first JPY-pegged stablecoin — link

Chainlink employing exclusivity contracts — as explained here — is counter to crypto’s open ethos. — link

People are depositing stablecoins to exchanges.

Coinbase faces class action lawsuit in California over XRP sale — link

A timeline of events that sent Bitcoin to the moon

Berkshire Hathaway market cap: $538 billion
Bitcoin market cap: $𝟱𝟯𝟵 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻

Warren Buffett was right, Bitcoin is rat poison and the banks are the rats. — link

Binance.US announces that it will delist XRP in mid-January — link

Another day, another All Time High for Bitcoin! Crypto's #1 market cap asset has reached $28.95k just 5 minutes ago on 3-year high supporting address activity.

Additionally, Ethereum has quietly cracked $750 for the first time since March 7th, 2018!

Asset manager VanEck—with $49 billion AUM—files with SEC for a new #Bitcoin fund

BREAKING from MAINLAND: The “genius” Jihan who torpedoed Bitmain IPO and sold company’s 220k bitcoin inventory for the failed pet project BCH is OUT! For his 20% stake he gets to keep some irrelevant assets + 500 mln RMB. Sequoia in charge, will be driving IPO with Micree in 2021 — link

BREAKING: Bitcoin is now larger than Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway by market capitalization

Bitcoin: $542.5b
Berkshire Hathaway: $538.2b

YTD change in the market value of various asset classes in %

Top Assets by Market Cap — link

Grayscale has increased their $XRP position by 8.5% after prices plunge to a 6 month low.

Things Ripple has actually claimed

- banks will use XRP (they don’t)
- XRP will be the regulated crypto (SEC is suing Ripple)
- XRP is a commodity that Ripple happens to own a lot of (they created it)
- XRP is a bridge currency (stablecoins actually fulfill this use case)

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There are 39 more Ethereum addresses holding 10,000+ $ETH compared to just 2 months ago. Meanwhile, the amount of addresses holding 1-10,000 $ETH have shrunk over this time.

Binance: Updated COVER Incident Resolution Plan — link

Binance will utilize the Binance SAFU Fund to recompense a total of $10,107,505 USD (distributed in 8,171,634.10 BUSD and 2,581.16 ETH) to affected and eligible users, with the details listed out here