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

— link

Banks are basically balkanized, heterogeneous databases with high latency & weak security, especially ACH transfers & credit cards. — Elon Musk

5 Days of #Bitcoin killin it

+ $2.2 trillion custodian / admin BNY Mellon hosts $BTC
+ Deutsche Bank custodian & prime services
+ Tesla buys $1.5 billion and accepts payment in $BTC
+ Morgan Stanley publishes report
+ JPMorgan says demand is coming

— link

India finally bans cryptocurrencies, gives investors six months to liquidate their assets — link

They better ban the internet too. And satellites.

US Federal Government debt.

2000: $5.6 trillion

2005: $7.9 trillion

2010: $13.5 trillion

2015: $18.1 trillion

Now: $27.9 trillion

Bitcoin is now worth more than the two largest payment services in the world combined, Visa and PayPal. — link

Bitcoiners aren’t this passionate about bitcoin for the gains. Yes, it’s fun to grow wealth. We are passionate about bitcoin, because we are tired of being slaves to the system. We are fucking tired of being lied to and stolen from. We are fucking tired!!! This is why we bitcoin — Cam

This will hardly buy you half a bitcoin right now.

In the past 7 days:

New BTC all time high
Tesla buy $1.5 billion #Bitcoin
Amazon exploring digital currencies
Mastercard enter crypto payments
Miami to add BTC to treasury
Bank of New York Mellon enters BTC
SEC Commissioner: time for BTC ETP
1st North American BTC ETF approved — link

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