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🔥 NOW: Ethiopian Electric Power now earns 18% of its revenue from #Bitcoin mining, utilizing excess energy from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
With $1 billion invested this year, Ethiopia aims to become a top-five global mining hub.
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📈 INSIGHT: Bitcoin ETFs, MicroStrategy, whales spur 3X jump in private BTC txs: Analyst
CryptoQuant’s CEO Ki Young Ju dismissed the idea that private CoinJoin transactions are mostly used by hackers to launder stolen funds.
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⚡️ BULLISH: US Bitcoin ETFs now have more assets under management than gold ETFs.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs have been on the market in the US for less than a year 🔥
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🇺🇸 TRUMP: “The future of crypto and the future of #Bitcoin will be made in the USA.”
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🇺🇸 JUST IN: Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive Asset Management has filed for a “Strive Bitcoin Bond ETF” with the SEC.
The fund aims to offer exposure to MicroStrategy's convertible bonds, among others.
🎮 NEW: According to a Blockchain Game Alliance survey, the top 3 benefits of blockchain gaming are:
🥇 Asset ownership
🥈 Player reward models
🥉 New revenue models
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🚨 UPDATE: Animoca Brands CEO Yat Siu was hacked, along with 14 others, including profiles from Kick, Cursor, Alex Blania, and more.
Investigator ZachXBT linked the attacks to a single token creator’s address.
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🚨 NEW: Former FTX executive Ryan Salame has had over a year reduced from his prison sentence and is now scheduled for release on March 1, 2031.
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🚨 JUST IN: Brazil’s central bank has proposed banning stablecoin transfers to self-custodial wallets like MetaMask and Trezor.
Industry experts believe this move could inadvertently accelerate the shift toward decentralization.
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🔥 NOW: Publicly traded company KULR has purchased 217 BTC for $21 million as part of its strategic #Bitcoin reserve, with the purchase price set at $96,556 per $BTC.
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🔥 BULLISH: Some analysts believe Bitcoin is closer to the $1,000,000 mark than it seems.
Throughout its history, $BTC has multiplied its value by 10 eight times (starting from $0.01), and just one more 10x rally could take it to $1 million.
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📊 INSIGHT: Binance #Bitcoin reserves hit January levels — months before BTC jumped 90%
With the reserves falling under 570,000 BTC, the lowest level since January, will history repeat itself?
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📈 INSIGHT: Redemption arcs of 2024 — Ripple’s victory, memecoins’ rise, RWA growth
XRP soared this year following a significant legal victory for Ripple Labs, while PEPE and WIF rallied over 1,200% each amid a memecoin market revival.
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🔥 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says tokenizing assets and securities could revolutionize finance.
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🔥 LATEST: Ether ETFs have seen over $2.5B in inflows despite a 16% drop from last week's high of $4,100.
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🚨 BREAKING: Bitwise files for #Bitcoin Standard Corporations ETF.
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📊 INSIGHT: With Bitcoin dominance creeping back up to nearly 60% amid a price stall in the last few days of 2024, there’s a growing belief among traders it could be time to switch their accumulation strategy toward altcoins.
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🚨 LATEST: Bitwise has filed for a Bitcoin Standard Corporations ETF with the SEC.
The fund aims to offer exposure to stocks of the companies that have adopted the #Bitcoin standard with at least 1,000 $BTC in its corporate treasury.
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🔥 LATEST: Solana's Jito staking pool has surpassed $100M in monthly tips according to Kairos Research.
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⚡️ LATEST: Man in Legal Fight to Recover $773M in Bitcoin from Landfill.
James Howell is trying to locate his 8,000 $BTC mistakenly disposed of in a landfill, aiming to retrieve the hard drive while complying with legal and environmental regulations.
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🔥 SAYLOR: “The most important thing in the world today is Bitcoin.”
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🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!
🔥 RFK JR: "I'm a huge supporter of Bitcoin.”
⚡️ Chief analyst at Bitget Research predicts "the expected trading range for $BTC this week is $94K - $105K."
☕️ Solana-based Agridex completed its first on-chain coffee trade.
💰 Ether ETFs have seen over $2.5B in inflows.
🙌 In 2024, nearly $15 billion was distributed through airdrops.
🗣️ Larry Fink says tokenizing assets and securities could revolutionize finance.
📈 Bitcoin and Solana hit all-time highs in monthly trading volume last month.
🍾 Redemption arcs of 2024 — Ripple’s victory, memecoins’ rise, RWA growth.
🚨 SAYLOR: “I bought Bitcoin, my goal is to buy more Bitcoin.”
📊 Binance Bitcoin reserves hit January levels — months before BTC jumped 90%.
🤑 Solana's DEX volume was 83.7% larger than Ethereum's in November.
🔥 Analysts believe Bitcoin is closer to the $1,000,000 mark than it seems.
🇯🇵 Japan's PM Shigeru Ishiba said the government lacks sufficient information to consider a Bitcoin strategic reserve.
❗️ Publicly traded company KULR has purchased 217 BTC for $21 million as part of its strategic Bitcoin reserve.
🦛 Vitalik Buterin donated $290,000 to the Khao Kheow Zoo, sparking a surge in the Moodeng token.
🇧🇷 Brazil’s central bank has proposed banning stablecoin transfers to self-custodial wallets like MetaMask and Trezor.
🇺🇸 US Congress is expected to prioritize crypto legislation in 2025.
👀 Former FTX executive Ryan Salame has had over a year reduced from his prison sentence.
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🇺🇸 NEW: The U.S. Congress is expected to prioritize crypto legislation in 2025, focusing on key issues like stablecoins and the FIT21 Act.
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📈 NEW: Vitalik Buterin donated $290,000 to the Khao Kheow Zoo, sparking a surge in the Moodeng token.
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🇯🇵 Japan's PM Shigeru Ishiba said the government lacks sufficient information to consider a Bitcoin strategic reserve.
This comes as the U.S. and Brazil explore similar initiatives.
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📈 INSIGHT: #Solana's DEX volume was 83.7% larger than Ethereum's in November.
Solana: $129.7B
Ethereum: $70.6B
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📈🔥 SAYLOR: “I bought #Bitcoin, my goal is to buy more Bitcoin.”
MicroStrategy has bought 57,562 $BTC worth about $5.6 billion within this month alone!
⚡️ LATEST: Bitcoin and Solana hit all-time highs in monthly trading volume last month.
Meanwhile, Ethereum remains around 50% below its 2021 peak.
⚡️ NEW: In 2024, nearly $15 billion was distributed through airdrops.
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🔥 JUST IN: Solana-based Agridex completed its first on-chain coffee trade.
UK’s Tiki Tonga Coffee exported coffee to South Africa, with payment made in South African rands and settled in British pounds on the Agridex blockchain.
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