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Will Bank have to buy $ETH to use for gas?
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ICYMI: Ethereum's Layer 2 scaling solution Optimism plans to release its preliminary mainnet on January 15 — link
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Bitcoin dropped 16% yesterday and most of the selling pressure came from Asia.

- South Korea's Bithumb saw a $100m deposit, which is unusually big.
- $BTC recovered strongly as U.S. came online, Coinbase premium re-emerged.

The market is WAY less overleveraged now.

Why is it still dropping?

There's still high selling pressure coming from Asia during the Asia session.

Many stacked sell orders at $34.3k, $33k, whale cluster support at $29.3k.

Basically, chop city, no clear direction. Be ware. — link
Coinbase outflow on Jan 2 was an all-time high. It seems institutions bought $BTC when the price above 30k.
Jan. 15, 2021

The Office of the New York Attorney General, or OAG, has requested a deadline extension for iFinex Inc — the parent company of both crypto exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether — to produce the documents requested for their ongoing legal battle.

On Dec. 9, 2020, the OAG wrote to Justice Joel Cohen to request the deadline be pushed back until Jan. 15, 2020 — presumably a typo and actually a request for the same date in 2021.
— link
$USDC inflows into centralized exchanges have increased exponentially over the last 30 days, supporting the recent Bitcoin rally.

More than $135m were deposited on January 3, from which $124m flowed into Binance
Bitcoin RSI index
Chainlink just hit a 4-month high in network growth.

The last couple days saw 5,966 and 5,791 new $LINK addresses created, respectively.

These are the highest daily values since Aug 21, 2020. It's +16.2% this week, and hovering at ~$14.05 currently. — link
Institutions ARE here.

- CME Bitcoin futures volume hit an all-time high today at $2.7 billion.
- LMAX Digital (institutional platform) hit ATH volume at $2.6 billion.

It's just what the data show. — link
Institutional investors don't decide to buy #Bitcoin at a certain price. They make a decision to buy a certain amount in dollars, usually hundreds of millions, and then buy over time regardless of price movements. — link
JPMorgan, Sept 2017: "#Bitcoin is a fraud that will eventually blow up"

JPMorgan, Jan 2021: "#Bitcoin reaching $146,000 should be considered as a long-term target”
Bitcoin's price could reach above $146,000 over the long term, say JPMorgan strategists — link
#Bitcoin is about to reach $𝟭𝟬 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 of total value transfered.

Not a single one of those transactions used of a bank, let that sink in.
Bloqport: 2021 Crypto Market Outlook — read
A16z, Coinbase intend to challenge FinCEN's proposed crypto wallet rules in court should it become law — link
There is currently 2.25 million $ETH staked on eth2 which is worth $2.3 billion!

This represents ~2% of the current circulating supply of $ETH.
Grayscale removes XRP from its Digital Large Cap Fund — link
1,882 $BTC ($60 million) was just sent to Bithumb.