New Bitcoin Hashrate ATH: 126.13 EH/s
126 Quintillion hashes per second
(When we hit our price ATH in December 2017, hashrate was 13 EH/s)

Binance Futures Will Launch XLM/USDT Perpetual Contract With Up to 75x Leverage — link

Binance Will Support the WTC Mainnet Token Swap — link

Binance Launches VIP Invitation Program — link

Binance P2P Adds Support for Vietnamese Dong (VND) — link

First week of CME options closed on a strong note with 610 bitcoin options trading on Friday

Binance burns $38M in Q4 nearing prior high from 2017

+ 2.2M $BNB burn implies a Q4 profit of $194M

+ $2M increase over Q3 marks 4th consecutive quarter of growth — link

Introducing the WazirX (WRX) Token Sale on Binance Launchpad — link

Binance Completes Mainnet Swaps and Opens Deposits & Withdrawals for IOTX & WTC — link

BNC launches Bitcoin ‘Twitter Sentiment’ data — link

India’s central bank RBI says crypto not banned, but don’t bank on it — link

BREAKING: Central banks announce a group that will assess the what, why, and how of creating a CBDC themselves, including:

Bank of England
Bank of Canada
Bank of Japan
European Central Bank
Sveriges Riksbank
Swiss National Bank
Bank for International Settlements

The race is on.

BREAKING: Telecom giant Vodafone has left the Libra Association, the eighth company to pull out of the Facebook-led digital currency project since the fall. — link

Just 2 of the top 10 cryptocurrencies (in terms of market cap) have Transparent Volume of 40% or more.

$BNB & $ADA.

1/ Billions of dollars of crypto were “invested” into the PlusToken ponzi scheme over 2018 and 2019.

The scam reportedly first started in July, 2018 then abruptly stopped accepting payments on June 30th, 2019 after publicly posting the message “sorry we have to run.” — link

2/ In August, 2019, reports first started coming out that BTC and ETH from the PlusToken scam were being sold in large quantities on Huobi. — link

About 72% of all Bitcoin now has unrealized gains. This is a significant improvement from one month ago where this metric stood at 50%. — link