Secretary-General Says United Nations Must Embrace Blockchain — link

Since 2010, Bitcoin has died 378 times — link

We are in the re-accumulation phase of a bull market — link

TRON (TRX) will be unlocking 33B TRX on Jan 1 — link

Nearly 70% of all Bitcoin hasn't been moved for over 6 months.

Last time that happened was... approaching the 2016 halving.

Purchasing power of $100:

1913: $100 (The Fed was created)
1923: $57.89
1933: $76.15
1943: $57.23
1953: $37.08
1963: $32.35
1973: $22.30
1983: $9.94
1993: $6.85
2003: $5.38
2013: $4.25
2019: $3.87

If Bitcoin is a get rich quick scheme, then fiat is a get poor slow scheme. — Rhythm

Crypto Analyst Mati Greenspan Raises Questions Over XRP Tokenomics — link

During 2019 Bitcoin rose from 49th to 34th position in terms of M1 money supply. — link

~$20 billion got liquidated on BitMEX
~20% increase since last year.
~$800 million of user funds got liquidation on BitMEX during 2019.

China's digital yuan takes shape with new encryption law — link

Be careful with this Scam email we are getting in our emails #Poloniex — link

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Happy New Year 2020 Everyone, from iCrypto to Yours. Wish you and yours a new year, a new decade full of Love, Health and Happiness.

Some bitcoin stats to finish the year

2019 return +95%

150 days where bitcoin moved less than +/- 1%

Maximum one day move 17.4%

Minimum one day move -14.1%

Average absolute daily move 2.4%

90% of returns between -4.7% & +6.1%

Google has restored MetaMask's Android app — link

Ethereum completes Muir Glacier hard fork update — link

Bitmain to further cut half of its personnel by Chinese New Year — link

2019 Total transactions in USD Value:

Chase Bank credit cards: 0.4 Trillion
Paypal: 0.7 Trillion
Bitcoin: 3.8 Trillion (onchain Bitcoin transactions USD value)

All digital payments on the internet: 4.1 Trillion (excluding bitcoin)

— link

Chart values are annual percent change (1/1/2019 - 12/30/2019) of the USD daily midnight UTC closing price (CM Reference Rates)

Despite the downturn at the end of the year, most of the major cryptoassets actually finished significantly up on the year in terms of price.

Bitcoin (BTC) finished the year up 90% while Ether (ETH) finished down 6%. After Tezos (XTZ) was added to Coinbase and XTZ staking was released on Coinbase Pro and Binance, XTZ had a late surge to finish the year up a stunning 182%.

A few mid-cap assets also had a strong year, including Chainlink (LINK), up 513%, and Basic Attention Token (BAT), up 45%. XRP, Stellar (XLM), and Zcash (ZEC) on the other hand all finished in the red, down 47%, 60%, and 52% respectively. — link

Table values are annual averages of daily values (1/1/2019 - 12/30/2019) — link