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103k $BTC options will expire, USD 3.3B notional, max pain at USD28k, largest OI in 52k strike

After Elon put '#Bitcoin ' in his bio, $258.17M worth of short positions got liquidated in an hour.

#Binance will be suspending withdrawals temporarily in order to address a large increase in requests from new unique users.

Rest assured funds are #SAFU and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Updates to follow.

BREAKING: Robinhood restricts crypto trading 'due to extraordinary market conditions'

A bad week for Robinhood now gets even worse. — link

Coinbase in top #5 on the App Store.
Binance in top #5 on the App Store.
New user sign ups at all time high.
Ray Dalio saying he might buy BTC.
Elon putting #Bitcoin in his bio.

This weekend is lining up to be an explosive one. — link

500,000,000 #USDT (496,803,144 USD) minted at Tether Treasury — link

This message of Elon Musk's was just embedded into the #Bitcoin blockchain for all of eternity. — link

😂 — link

As of 4pm EST today, Grayscale’s #Ethereum Trust re-opened.

10x - 2x on-chain leverage long/short on any asset listed in Aave, Cream, Compound, or Iron Bank

Choose your own base & quote asset

Margin accepted in any listed asset

Funding rate = net interest received on base - interest paid on quote asset

Will start work on a UI — link

South Korea's government (Ministry of Science and NCT) published a research paper on DeFi.

This is the first government-led DeFi research.

FEW. — link

- Citadel received $200 million from taxpayers money in 2008 bailout.

- Bernanke, who granted the bailout, now works for Citadel.

- Citadel paid Yellen nearly $1 million “speaking fees”.

- Yellen now advices Biden on the GME situation where Citadel was losing on shorts. — link

Bitcoin bull market checklist

Tether FUD
India crypto ban
Chinese new year FUD
Coinbase server down
Binance overloaded
Random alt run (DOGE)
Asia dumping

All check — link

7.2 million $ETH is locked in DeFi.

2.8 million $ETH is locked in eth2.

This means that 10 million $ETH (8.8% of the current supply) is being put to work to power the Ethereum ecosystem.

That's $13.4 billion at current prices. — link