Binance Has Distributed First Batch of December Staking Rewards — link

A lawsuit that alleged Tether and Bitfinex manipulated the bitcoin market has been withdrawn by the plaintiffs — link

Exchange $BTC wallet balance change since Jan. 1, 2019.

Most exchanges have changed 10-40K. Huobi has gained nearly 200K.

Deribit to move platform to Panama in response to 5AMLD — link

Cobinhood announces shutdown, claiming it will audit user accounts — link

Telegram's law firm Skadden Arps has written that the SEC's requests cover 770 individuals or entities in over 12 countries — link

Bitcoin miners are paid > 15 million dollars/day as incentive to secure the network

This makes up > 80% of total miner salary across all major PoW coins

Since mid-2017, Bitcoin’s miner salary share has increased ~250% and is nearing pre-Ethereum levels — link

TokenAnalyst's bot picked up a massive $39M $BTC inflow into Poloniex from an unknown address.

For context, inflows of this size are rare, and the avg. daily $BTC inflow into Polo is $2M - $3M.

They are monitoring to see if this is Polo shuffling funds. — link

ZEC/LTC Halvenings — link

Bitcoin Cycle Bottoms — link

Most active week in three months at the CME ahead of the options launch this Monday - looking strong! — link

CME Group will launch options on Bitcoin futures (BTC) on January 13, 2020 — link

Active addresses and new addresses have grown, with a special uptick since 2017.

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21M bitcoin

Bitcoin Goes Premier League — link

Japan's top financial regulator plans to reduce the risk to cryptocurrency margin traders by cutting the permitted leverage to 2x — link

Total volume on non-custodial crypto exchanges hit 9-month low in December — link

Bitcoin flow of bitcoin between countries and cryptocurrency exchanges 2013-2019 — link