Over $2.5 Billion worth of #bitcoin left exchanges today, likely sent to cold storage for security.

Khazakstan is allowing people to buy and sell Bitcoin with bank accounts — link

Largest Bitcoin net outflow from exchanges yesterday since 2016

Binance will no longer offer crypto derivatives trading to users in three European countries: Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Binance has plans to shut its crypto derivatives products offerings across the European region in the future.

— link

Over 110K BTC withdrawn from exchanges in the last 24h.

𝙴𝚃𝙷 𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚢

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🥩 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚍 – 𝟷𝟹.𝟻𝙼 𝙴𝚃𝙷
🔒 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚒 – 𝟻.𝟾𝙼 𝙴𝚃𝙷
🔥 𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚗 – 𝟸.𝟼𝙼 𝙴𝚃𝙷

Jump Crypto still adding ~$25-30m in ETH per week to this address.

>2 million ETH (!) now in total worth over $3.1 billion.

https://etherscan.io/address/0x0716a17fbaee714f1e6ab0f9d59edbc5f09815c0

The Ethereum Merge is scheduled to take place on 13 September. Christmas season is here again.

ETH holders will soon be airdropped ETH PoW tokens. What should you do to best position yourself?

Here are 7 steps you may consider to fully take advantage of the Merge:

👉 https://twitter.com/bobbyong/status/1566616585015422976

The European Central Bank raised interest rates by 75 bps, the largest single rate hike since monetary policy began in 1999. According to CME, the probability of the U.S. Fed raising interest rates by 50 bps by September is 16%, and the probability of 75 bps is 84%.

MicroStrategy is raising up to $500M to buy more Bitcoin.

Google knows that The Merge is coming

South Korea Seeks the Arrest of Terraform Labs Founder Do Kwon — link

Estimated Time of ETH merge Around The World 🌎

🇺🇸 Miami 1:00 EDT
🇺🇸 San Francisco 22:00 PDT
🇨🇦 Vancouver 22:00 PDT
🇲🇽 Mexico City 00:00 CDT
🇬🇧 London 06:00 BST
🇩🇪 Berlin 07:00 CEST
🇫🇷 Paris 07:00 CEST
🇳🇱 Amsterdam 07:00 CEST
🇸🇮 Ljubljana 07:00 CEST
🇦🇪 Dubai 09:00 GST

Ethereum Mainnet Merge Viewing Party — live

🇮🇳 India to ban 9 crypto exchange URL’s:

• Binance
• Kraken
• Huobi
• Kucoin
• Bittrex
• Gate․io
• Bitstamp
• Bitfinex
• MEXC Global

It's highly probable that the Spot Bitcoin ETF will be approved by regulatory authorities prior to January 15th.

This thread is amazing and wise and true and worth reading - here