Mastercard up 2% on bitcoin adoption
BNY Mellon up 2% on bitcoin adoption

But don't worry, no more companies will be tempted to do the same — link

A total of $602m worth of bitcoin short positions got liquidated in the aftermath of the Tesla news.

Combined with the earlier short-squeeze driven by Elon Musk's bitcoin tweet, a total of $1.2b shorts have been liquidated on Musk driven events. — link

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, “We’re ready for a bitcoin ETP" — link

JPMorgan co-president Daniel Pinto says the bank will offer #Bitcoin trading if there’s a demand — link

HODL doesn't stand for "Hold On for Dear Life". It was a mispelled word in this 2013 post that became a meme. — link

In the past 48 hours:

New Bitcoin all time high
Amazon exploring digital currencies
Mastercard to enter crypto payments
Bank of New York Mellon enters BTC
SEC Commissioner: its time for a Bitcoin ETP
1st North American Bitcoin ETF approved
Miami may put BTC in its treasury
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The first North American #Bitcoin ETF has been approved by Canadian Securities Regulator https://www.sedar.com/CheckCod...

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PayPal announce plans to roll out cryptocurrency support in the UK to allow residents to buy and sell #Bitcoin and other cryptos this year. — link

India to ban cryptocurrency investment completely: Report — link

Imagine getting rid of your Bitcoin because it's too "volatile" moving from $0 to $47,000 in the span of 12 years.

Deutsche Bank is building a cryptocurrency custody platform for their institutional clients. — link

Happy Chinese/Lunar New Year all! 新年快乐, 恭喜发财!

Looking forward to a bullish year of the 0x. 🐂🐂

In the meantime, here's a doc I wrote with some of my current thinking around state size management (including rent and statelessness) proposals. — Vitalik

Ethereum users are on track to pay almost $6B in fees this year. Incredible.

Bitcoin crossed $900 billion market cap for the first time this week.

It is nearing $1 trillion.

Feeling late to the party?

Less than 0.5% of people own any Bitcoin

You're early.

New from @stanfordio: Clubhouse transmits user IDs and channel IDs in plaintext to Agora (a Chinese company), allowing a network adversary to see which users are talking to each other. — link

DeFi Protocols Cream Finance, Alpha Lose $37.5M in Exploit; ‘Prime Suspect’ ID’d — link

LOOK FUCKERS

EVERY $1 YOU PUT IN BTC YOU'LL HAVE $100 IN BUYING POWER BEFORE 2030

AND EVERY $1 YOU DON'T PUT IN BTC YOU'LL HAVE $0.01 IN BUYING POWER BEFORE 2030

STOP AND READ THAT AGAIN — link

MicroStrategy now holds more Bitcoin than the entire United States government

71,079 BTC > 70,124 BTC

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