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

28 digital assets are already trading on BinanceUS

New report finds that 72% of crypto-investors hold #Bitcoin in their crypto portfolio.

Percentage of crypto-investors holding these tokens:
- $BTC 72%
- $ETH 55%
- $BNB 40%
- $XRP 39%
- $LTC 38%
- $XLM 32%
- $EOS 27%
- $ADA 26%
- $BCH 25%
- $XMR 21%

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There is high chance we will not see #btc below $5000 ever again. — link

World economic forum announces global consortium for digital currency governance — link

Payment startup raises $80 million in funding from SBI Group, Visa and other investors — link

Financial stability was a key factor in the Bank of England's decision to hold stablecoin payment systems — link

New Singapore law allows global crypto firms to expand locally — link

Another all-time-high for Bitcoin mining difficulty

New difficulty: 15,466,098,935,555 (+4.67%)

IEOs are dead. There appears to be a clear relationship between the return and the number of days since the IEO. The average return of IEOs approaches 0% in 200 days. In other words, nearly no one wants to hold IEOs long term. — link

LocalBitcoins suspending long-time users accounts without warning — link

This will be the sixth time #Bitcoin is over 9000, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.

Since $BTC forks have been bouncing off lows, a reminder to zoom out.

While bsv is -2% since launch, the way to get it was holding bch. The combined performance is -40%, which is more representative.

Most importantly though, the combined mcaps of these forks is 7% of Bitcoin. — link

Futures volumes have been rising for four consecutive days as bitcoin approaches the $10k mark

Swiss company gets green light to incorporate for a Blockchain IPO — link

Antonopoulos writes to judge vouching for law team suing Bitfinex for $BTC manipulation — link