Lightning Labs is scaling!

Announcing our $10M Series A to fuel LN development, and the Lightning Loop beta release, a product making it easier send/receive #bitcoin instantly.

With 4000 developers and 30+ startups, the next decade of Lightning is on 🔥 — link

Tom Lee suggests #Bitcoin is in line for an average 197% bull run over the next six months and may hit 27K by summer.

#Tezos on-chain transaction count reached a yearly high this past week. Additionally, the network has seen a rise in staking participants, with nearly 80% of tokens being staked. $XTZ — link

Bitcoin March and June futures rise above $10,000

#bitcoin 200 week moving average has never gone down, currently increasing at $200 (4%) per month

Tesla is new BTC?

Binance Futures Will Launch ATOM/USDT Perpetual Contract With Up to 50x Leverage — link

[Binance] - Notice of Removal of Trading Pairs - 2020/02/07 — link

HyperDAO will have IEO on Okex on February 25, 04.00 UTC — link

Bakkt aims to turn your rewards points into a wallet you can spend anywhere — link

Japan needs closer cooperation with the U.S. to curb the potential influence of China’s planned digital currency — link

The heads of six central banks and the Bank for International Settlements in mid-April will hold their first meeting on developing their own digital currencies — link

Bakkt's BTC futures open interest reaches a new all-time high — link

Year Progress:
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Grayscale total AUM: $3.0 billion — link

Bitcoin is up on 19/36 days to start the year. This is the EXACT same start 2019 had, however:

2020:
Avg. up day: +2.9%
Avg. down day: -1.5%
YTD return: +35.3%

2019:
Avg. up day: +1.6%
Avg. down day: -1.8%
YTD return: -7.3%

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[SCOOP!!] Blockchain Capital's first four funds have IRRs to LPs at 49%, 53%, 60%, 17%. To date, it has raised a total of $173 million with $295 million AUM across its four funds. — link

Coronavirus shuts down Chinese Bitcoin mine — link