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🚨 NOW: Crypto market cap sheds nearly $100 billion in the past 19 hours, dropping from $3.02T peak back down to $2.93T.
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🚨 TODAY: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says "Bitcoin is good for USD," noting it acts as a check and balance against high inflation and deficit spending.
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🚨 NEW: Animoca's co-founder says it's time for crypto to grow up.
What do you think?
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🚨 INSIGHT: A Bitcoin pump doesn’t need to wait for gold and silver to pull back, per Glassnode analyst.
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🚨 NOW: Brian Armstrong says reopening the GENIUS Act is a red line that Coinbase will fight.
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🚨 LATEST: This could be the first ever red post-halving year.
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🚨 BIG: ~$150B in longs and shorts were wiped out this year, averaging $400–500M in daily leverage flushes, per CoinGlass.
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🚨 UPDATE: Team Human finished the tournament at –32.21% ROI while Team AI closed at –4.48%, marking a clear win for the AI side in Aster’s final results.
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🚨 ALERT: Losses from hacks, exploits, and scams topped $3.35B this year, per CertiK.
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🚨 LATEST: BTC and ETH ETF net flows turned negative since early November, per
Glassnode.
This signals reduced institutional participation and broader crypto market liquidity contraction.
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⚡️ TODAY: Coinbase now supports SOL withdrawals and deposits via the Base network.
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🚨 TODAY: Peter Schiff ran a poll asking: if you were given $100K to invest in Bitcoin, gold, or silver and hold until 2028, which would you choose?
Bitcoin is leading with 59.2% 👀
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⚡ BIG: A leaked Fundstrat outlook warns of a major crypto pullback in early 2026, clashing with Tom Lee’s bullish calls.
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🇺🇸 LATEST: Gemini joined 125+ companies urging Congress to keep the GENIUS Act as it was written.
These parties believe that changes would undermine legal stablecoin rewards and innovation.
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🚨 ALERT: A copy-paste slip sent nearly $50M USDT to a scam address.
Address poisoning plants look-alike wallets in your history.
Avoid it by checking the full address, using whitelists, and copying only from the original source.
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🔥 UPDATE: Real-world asset protocols have surpassed DEXs to become the fifth-largest DeFi category by TVL, hitting $17B as tokenized Treasurys, private credit and commodities rapidly move into the core of onchain finance.
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⚡ LATEST: The last time the total liquidations chart was this flat, nearly $1B in long liquidations followed the next Monday.
Will history repeat?
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🔥 UPDATE: The chance of a January rates cut has now fallen below 18%, per CME Group.
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🔥 UPDATE: SharpLink Gaming is 14.3% complete with their goal to own 5% of the circulating supply.
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🔥 NEW: Bitmine has started staking ETH, depositing $219M into Ethereum’s PoS system.
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📊 NEW: RWA was the most profitable narrative in 2025 with ~186% average gains, followed by L1s and Made in USA, per Coingecko.
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🚨 LATEST: CZ reminds investors that early Bitcoin buyers didn't wait for all-time highs, noting "they bought when there was fear, uncertainty and doubt."
When did you buy your $BTC? 👀
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QUESTION: Bitcoin on Christmas 🎄
2022: $16,841
2023: $43,613
2024: $99,299
Where does Bitcoin finish this Christmas?
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🚨 LATEST: Galaxy's Alex Thorn says Bitcoin never actually crossed $100K when adjusted for inflation, with its $126K peak translating to just $99,848 in 2020 dollar terms.
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🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!
🔥 A solo miner has successfully mined Bitcoin block 928985, earning a 3.128 $BTC reward worth ~$281K.
🔥 $13 trillion BlackRock lists Bitcoin as one of 2025's biggest investment themes alongside T-bills and the Mag 7 in its year-end investment wrap.
🚨 VanEck says Bitcoin miner capitulation signal may indicate a bottom is near, with hashrate falling 4% through Dec 15, a historically bullish contrarian signal.
🚨 XRP social sentiment turns increasingly negative, which historically signals potential price rises as retail doubt often precedes rallies, per Santiment.
🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: ETH, SOL, and XRP spot ETFs saw net inflows on Dec. 22, while BTC spot ETFs saw net outflows.
🔥 Franklin Templeton’s $XRP spot ETF has crossed 100M $XRP in holdings for the first time, now holding 101.55M $XRP worth $192.7M.
🇺🇸 U.S. GDP grew 4.3% in Q3 2025, beating the previous quarter’s 3.8% as consumer spending, exports and government outlays lifted economic activity despite weaker investment.
🇪🇺 The EU Council has endorsed the ECB’s digital euro design, backing both online and privacy-focused offline versions.
⚡️ Circle minted $1.5 billion worth of $USDC over the past week, including $500 million issued today.
🔥 Gold breaks a new all-time high of $4,500.
🔥 Tom Lee’s Bitmine adds another 67,886 $ETH worth $201M to its treasury today.
⚡️ Coinbase now supports SOL withdrawals and deposits via the Base network.
🚨 Former FTX US president Brett Harrison secures $35M in funding to launch Architect, a new institutional exchange.
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⚡️ JUST IN: Circle minted $1.5 billion worth of $USDC over the past week, including $500 million issued today.
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🇺🇲 LATEST: US lawmakers propose a $200 tax exemption for stablecoin payments and delayed taxes on staking rewards.
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📊 MARKET: $7B in shorts will be wiped out if $BTC can add $10K.
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🚨 JUST IN: Sam Bankman-Fried is now a jailhouse power broker, doling out legal advice from behind bars.
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🚨 INSIGHT: Ethereum’s exchange supply has fallen to its lowest level since 2016, signaling reduced sell pressure as more $ETH moves into long-term storage.
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