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

Bitcoin mining pools earned an average of over $4.28 million from bitcoin transaction fees in 2019, with BTC.com making the most, more than $26.22 million — link

Bitfinex enables creation of multiple trading accounts within one Master account — link

$BCH implementing a 12.5% miner's tax is hilarious and anyone not donating will have their blocks orphaned.

Literally a centralized totalitarian regime with a 51% attack threat.
"A Hong Kong corporation has been set up to legally accept and disperse funds" — link

Grayscale digital asset investment report 2019 — link

Announcing the new XRPUSD Swap and Delisting BitMEX UP & BitMEX DOWN Contracts — link

Pornhub adds $USDT as payment method — link

What European cryptocurrency exchanges need to know about 5AMLD — link

Sellers of short dated puts ahead of the Chinese new year putting pressure on implied volatility

Dealers expect a quiet market due to the holiday

Spot market is telling a different story & trades down a couple of % today

Tether Gold XAU₮, the digital asset pegged to physical gold is officially live — link

Former CFTC Chair releases first formal remarks about his Digital Dollar Project at Davos — link