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🇺🇸 After Trump’s inauguration, what’s your crypto strategy? Are you holding onto Bitcoin, or going all-in on altcoins?
Share your game plan! 👇
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🔥 NEW: Michael Saylor announced that all his $BTC will be burned after his death.
He described this as a contribution to benefit the entire crypto community.
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⚡️ NEW: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, predicts the first AI workers could join the workforce in 2025 as the company moves closer to developing artificial general intelligence (AGI).
“We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it,” said OpenAI boss Sam Altman.
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⚡️ JUST IN: Gemini, founded by the Winklevoss twins, has agreed to pay a $5 million fine to settle Commodity Futures Trading Commission charges that it misled the regulator while attempting to launch the first US-regulated Bitcoin futures contract.
The settlement avoids a trial set to begin on January 21, 2025.
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🎙️ Rise'n'Crypto: $DOGE Rockets Toward $1
Dogecoin soars 21% as whales grab 1B+ coins, with Galaxy Digital predicting $1 by 2025. Musk, Trump, and new utilities are shaking up the game—could this be DOGE's breakout moment?
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⚡️ JUST IN: South Korea’s Jeju Island is reportedly planning to issue NFT tourist cards in a bid to boost visitation by the country’s younger generations.
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🚨 JUST IN: Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley says Trump’s administration may unfreeze mergers and acquisitions which could transform the crypto industry if it happens.
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🔥 BULLISH: Metaplanet is aiming to expand its Bitcoin holdings more than fivefold to 10,000 $BTC in 2025, says CEO Simon Gerovich.
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🇺🇸 NEW: Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says, “75% of Ripple’s open roles are now US-based.”
Garlinghouse attributed the changes to the incoming Trump administration and Donald Trump's pro-crypto rhetoric.
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🚨 LATEST: Pro-crypto lawyer John Deaton has offered the incoming Trump administration to lead a probe into Operation Chokepoint 2.0.
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🚨 LATEST: Jim Cramer suggests $90,000 is the next level where people should buy Bitcoin if they haven’t bought any and says, “I like Bitcoin and I think people should watch it.”
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🚨 LATEST: Solana developers have created a quantum-resistant vault on the Solana blockchain to protect user funds from potential threats posed by quantum computers.
The Solana Winternitz Vault is optional, meaning Solana users will need to choose to store their funds in the Winternitz vaults to be quantum-proof.
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🚨 LATEST: Bitcoin technology company Jan3 raises $5M to accelerate the development of its Aqua Wallet and allocates $1M to create its own Bitcoin treasury.
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🔥 BULLISH: US spot Bitcoin ETFs bought 9,360 Bitcoin worth $907.3M on Jan. 3.
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⚡️ JUST IN: Portal to Bitcoin’s testnet faced overwhelming demand, with over 100,000 users highlighting scalability challenges in Bitcoin and Ethereum testnets, such as slow block confirmations and Lightning Network constraints.
PortaltoBitcoin empowers users with seamless, non-custodial crosschain swaps between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other blockchains—no traditional wallets required.
The team tackled performance issues by forking Mutinynet, switching to onchain token distribution, and implementing dynamic fees, ensuring a smooth user experience even during high demand.
Portal is not just identifying blockchain challenges but actively solving them, enhancing scalability, improving transaction speeds, and creating a more resilient infrastructure.
How do you think crosschain infrastructure can shape the future of blockchain scalability?
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⚡️ NOW: JPMorgan’s Evolving Relationship with Bitcoin
September 2017: JPMorgan CEO called #Bitcoin a fraud and threatened to fire any employee trading $BTC.
2018: The CEO acknowledged blockchain as legitimate but dismissed cryptocurrencies.
2021: Bitcoin was deemed worthless, likened to a pet rock.
July 2021: JPMorgan published educational materials on cryptocurrencies on their official website.
September 2023: JPMorgan’s UK bank, Chase, banned crypto transactions due to rising fraud cases.
January 2025: JPMorgan now recognizes Bitcoin and gold as structurally key components of investment portfolios.
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🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!
🇺🇸 Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says, “75% of Ripple’s open roles are now US-based.”
🚨 Bitcoin mining company MARA lent out 7,377 Bitcoin to third parties in 2024 to generate yield, according to a Jan. 3 announcement from the company.
🔥 Metaplanet is aiming to expand its Bitcoin holdings more than fivefold to 10,000 $BTC in 2025, says CEO Simon Gerovich.
🚨 Vivek Ramaswamy’s asset management firm Strive has filed to launch a Bitcoin Bond ETF.
🚨 Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley says Trump’s administration may unfreeze mergers and acquisitions which could transform the crypto industry if it happens.
🇺🇸 Trump-led Bitcoin rally could wane ahead of the FOMC meeting on Jan. 29, says 10x Research founder Markus Thielen.
⚡️ South Korea’s Jeju Island is reportedly planning to issue NFT tourist cards in a bid to boost visitation by the country’s younger generations.
⚡ $BTC surges to $101K.
🔥 $XRP's price action forms a bullish "bull flag" pattern, with increasing open interest signaling potential gains toward a $15 target.
🎙️ Rise'n'Crypto: $DOGE Rockets Toward $1
🔥 Vitalik Buterin sold 28 meme coins for a total of 984,000 USDC and donated the proceeds to his charity, Kanro.
⚡️ Gemini, founded by the Winklevoss twins, has agreed to pay a $5 million fine to settle Commodity Futures Trading Commission charges
🔥 JUST IN: Vitalik Buterin sold 28 meme coins for a total of 984,000 USDC and donated the proceeds to his charity, Kanro.
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🔥 BULLISH: $XRP's price action forms a bullish "bull flag" pattern, with increasing open interest signaling potential gains toward a $15 target.
Historical trends and technical indicators support optimism for a significant rally by mid-2025.
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📊 UPDATE: 2024 ended with a record $44.2B in global crypto inflows, nearly 4x the 2021 record.
#Bitcoin led with $38B (29% of AuM), while Ethereum surged late, hitting $4.8B for the year.
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🇺🇸 LATEST: A Trump-led Bitcoin rally could wane ahead of the FOMC meeting on Jan. 29, says 10x Research founder Markus Thielen.
Bitcoin fell nearly 15% to around $92,800 after the FOMC meeting on Dec. 18, where it trimmed the number of 2025 projected interest rate cuts from five to two.
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🚨 JUST IN: Vivek Ramaswamy’s asset management firm Strive has filed to launch a Bitcoin Bond ETF.
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🚨 TODAY: Bitcoin mining company MARA lent out 7,377 Bitcoin to third parties in 2024 to generate yield, according to a Jan. 3 announcement from the company.
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🚨 NEW: Phantom wallet has refuted rumors suggesting it would initiate a token airdrop to complement its soon-to-be-released social discovery feature in its X post.
“We've seen some speculation about an airdrop tied to this feature, so to clarify: we do not have any plans to launch a token.”
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🔥 BULLISH: $19 trillion in transactions settled on the Bitcoin network in 2024, more than double the $8.7 trillion settled over the network in 2023.
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🚨 NEW: Aave proposal to peg Ethena’s USDe to USDT sparks community pushback.
The proposal, co-authored by Chaos Labs and LlamaRisk, was submitted on Jan. 3 and seeks to protect Aave users from exposure to secondary market fluctuations.
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🇺🇸 US: Polymarket users predict a 40% chance of President-elect Trump creating a National #Bitcoin Reserve in 2025.
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🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: Around 9,360 $BTC and 17,050 $ETH were bought on Jan. 3.
BTC ETFs saw $907.3M in net inflows.
ETH ETFs saw $58.9M in net inflows.
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🇺🇸 LATEST: The US accounted for over 40% of the #Bitcoin network’s global hash rate at the end of 2024.
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