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

Summary Metrics — link

On January 15, the price of #BitcoinSV reached a peak of $354

During that day:
🔹$1.39b and 3.93m $BSV were moved in onchain transactions greater than $100k
🔹There were 70.82 active addresses
🔹We saw a net network growth (new addresses - zero balance) of 1.1k addresses — link

BTC price dropped on Jan 18th from ~$9k at 10am → ~$8.5k at 11am (all times in UTC).

The only significant txn that preceded this move was a 400 BTC outflow from Deribit at 9am

All other exchanges have peaks in outflow at ~11am UTC — link

Hyperledger has announced a new working group at Davos that will explore how blockchain can help the world meet climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement. — link