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.

∞ fiat
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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

Bitcoin futures open interest started the first four trading days with 5.4K contracts on January 7, up 69% from year-end OI — link

Conclusions from the "Predictions & Models" chart:

💥 95-99% of all predictions are incorrect

🚀 Under this premise BTC will have a new ATH in 2023/2024 as few expect it

🚀 For 2 years after ATHs all predictions are exaggerated

💥 For 2013 & 2017 most predictions were too low

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Lightning Network - Research from Bitmex — link

Volumes are mostly a function of leverage - see what Bitflyer's did last year when the FSA reduced max leverage from 15x to 4x on the 28th of May — link

Japan and Philippines discuss pro-crypto laws, cooperation among Asian countries — link

BREAKING: US Dollar falls 3% within the hour against Bitcoin