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

To end 2020, Bitcoin had the two largest single days of active addresses (1,215,762 on Dec. 30 & 1,203,679 on Dec. 31) since January 10, 2018.

It goes without saying that this is a very encouraging sign for BTC longs starting off 2021. — link

ATH: December's hash rate (136 exahash / s) was the highest in Bitcoin's history so far.

2017 Parity wallet hacker begins moving ETH — link