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

Grayscale BTC holdings are still 607k since 25 Dec.

#Bitcoin prices on New Year's Eve:

2010: $0.30
2011: $4
2012: $13
2013: $731
2014: $313
2015: $430
2016: $952
2017: $13,050
2018: $3,785
2019: $7,286
2020: $29,285

Yearn.Finance founder Andre Cronje releases new DeFi protocol yCredit — link

2012 halving (left orange arrow, 🔵 -> 🔴): stock to flow ratio doubled from 4 to 8 and bitcoin value increased 100x

2016 halving: S2F doubled from 11 to 22. Value 10x

2020 halving: S2F doubled from 27 to 54. BTC value just started to rise .. towards gold, 🟠🟡 next.

Happy 2021 🚀

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This week, total liquidity on Uniswap crossed $2 billion USD for the first time after $UNI farming ended in November.

As Bitcoin's markets opened on 2021 for the first time about 1h30 minutes ago (UTC), prices have jumped to $29,460 as $BTC has made yet another All-Time-High. Active addresses are on the rise in recent hours to support this push.

In a recent study by Glassnode, it is estimated that only 4.2M BTC, or 22% of the total supply of BTC, is in constant circulation and available for buying and selling. In other words 78% of the circulating supply of BTC is considered illiquid.

Bitcoin outperformed gold by more than 10-fold, and beat the S&P by 20-fold:

The Block Crypto: 2020 Year in Review

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/promotions/2020-in-review/#/

Google Trends data for 'Buy crypto' in the US 🚀

Bittrex Customers:

The XMR, ZEC, and DASH markets will be removed on Friday, January 15th at 23:00 UTC. — link

The Winklevii are the last line of defense for crypto privacy in the U.S.

That’s pretty good news tbh because they have the resources, patience, AND reputation (given how conservative they’ve been) to fight regulatory stupidity and overreach. — link