The median gas price in Ethereum reached 55.3 Gwei, nearly doubling in a month, the highest since mid-May this year.
https://dune.com/hildobby/Gas
A U.S. district judge has accepted a guilty plea from former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on charges related to anti-money laundering violations.
https://www.theblock.co/post/266430/seattle-judge-accepts-former-binance-ceo-changpeng-zhaos-guilty-plea
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told a panel of lawmakers on Wednesday that he would shut down crypto, if he was the government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujWR6t69UP8
https://www.theblock.co/post/266392/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-tells-sen-elizabeth-warren-that-government-should-shut-down-crypto
a16z has announced trends for 2024:
▫️Entering a new era of decentralization
▫️Resetting the UX of the future
▫️The rise of the modular tech stack
▫️AI + blockchains come together
▫️Play to earn becomes play and earn
▫️When AI becomes the gamemaker, crypto offers guarantees
▫️Formal verification becomes less, well, formal
▫️NFTs become ubiquitous brand assets
▫️SNARKs go mainstream
https://twitter.com/a16zcrypto/status/1732426257894342898
Growth of global liquidity and BTC volumes.
https://www.bitcoinstrategyplatform.com/
🎉 Today Dogecoin marks its 10th anniversary.
https://decrypt.co/208813/dogecoin-marks-10th-anniversary-hits-0-10-for-first-time-in-a-year
According to the number of Google searches for the word "Bitcoin", many people seem to have not yet realized that the price of BTC was going up to $45K.
https://trends.google
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is growing. Market cap is $1.62T. Bitcoin is trading at $43.5K
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Elon Musk’s X-linked artificial intelligence modeler xAI has an agreement for the private sale of $865.3 million in unregistered equity securities, according to a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission made on Dec. 5.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/elon-musk-xai-files-sec-form-d-private-sale-unregistered-securities
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2002695/000200269523000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml
The word “bitcoin” appeared in 1,074 regulatory filings submitted to the SEC in November, the highest amount ever.
https://www.theblock.co/post/266102/sec-filings-that-mention-bitcoin-surged-to-record-high-last-month
Peter Schiff: “CNBC's @andrewrsorkin just updated viewers on the price of Bitcoin, disclosing that it's the way CNBC measures digital gold, without ever mentioning the price of actual gold. CNBC is completely beholden to its cryto advertisers in the biased way they cover Bitcoin and gold.”
https://x.com/peterschiff/status/1732010546877075940
🔥Bitcoin has reached $44,488.
BTC is now trading at $43,788.
https://dropstab.com/coins/bitcoin
Merit Circle forms strategic collaboration with Pantera Capital.
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GMX has been integrated into the new self-custodial Web3 Wallet from Binance.
https://twitter.com/GMX_IO/status/1732047628089933982
Binance will introduce zero-fee trading for the BNB/FDUSD, DOGE/FDUSD, ETH/FDUSD, LINK/FDUSD, SOL/FDUSD and XRP/FDUSD spot and margin trading pairs at 2023-12-08 00:00 UTC.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-launches-zero-fee-trading-for-six-fdusd-spot-and-margin-trading-pairs-d0976bedd0b942efaa9f4f1624abd95d
Anatoly Legkodymov, the Russian co-founder of Hong Kong-registered virtual currency exchange Bitzlato, pleaded guilty to money laundering crimes in a New York court.
Legkodymov was arrested in Miami in January and charged with transmitting illicit funds. Bitzlato had been the largest counterparty of the now defunct Hydra darknet marketplace, whose users sent around $700 million worth of crypto through the exchange, according to the indictment.
https://www.theblock.co/post/266419/bitzlato-co-founder-set-to-plead-guilty-to-processing-700-million-in-illicit-funds-report
Grayscale CEO says he's feeling optimistic following conversations with the SEC about a spot bitcoin ETF.
Timelines have not been shared, Sonnenshein added.
Sonnenshein was also asked by Yahoo Finance about his reaction to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon telling lawmakers that he would shut down crypto if he were the government.
Every executive is going to have their own opinions on new technologies, Sonnenshein said.
https://www.theblock.co/post/266440/grayscale-ceo-says-hes-feeling-optimistic-following-conversations-with-the-sec-about-a-spot-bitcoin-etf
Sam Altman was named CEO of the Year by Time magazine.
https://time.com/6342827/ceo-of-the-year-2023-sam-altman/
The notional open interest, or the dollar-value locked in Chicago Mercantile Exchange's cash-settled ether futures contract, has increased by 30% to $711 million in the past five days, beating bitcoin's 19% growth to $4.9 billion.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/12/06/two-key-metrics-show-crypto-traders-turning-to-ether-from-bitcoin/
🚀 Top Gainers Among BRC20 Tokens
👉 https://dropstab.com/tab/brc-20-tokens-ncypastgkh
Rumours: BlackRock actively acquired Bitcoin during entire bear market through its private trust, launched in 2022 with Coinbase as custodian.
https://x.com/bitcoinlfgo/status/1732301369267364313
Bounce Finance has introduced the new era of Bounce — now Bounce Brand.
Bounce Finance has announced the launch of its brand-new website.
Visit: https://bounce.finance
https://x.com/bounce_finance/status/1732309255683006899
Bitcoin Core Developer Luke Dashjr: “Inscriptions” are exploiting a vulnerability in Bitcoin Core to spam the blockchain. Bitcoin Core has, since 2013, allowed users to set a limit on the size of extra data in transactions they relay or mine (`-datacarriersize`). By obfuscating their data as program code, Inscriptions bypass this limit. This bug was recently fixed in Bitcoin Knots v25.1.
https://x.com/lukedashjr/status/1732204937466032285
Japan will exempt companies that hold cryptocurrency for long-term purposes from tax.
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUA0449M0U3A201C2000000/
Grayscale's Ethereum trust filing just got delayed.
https://x.com/jseyff/status/1732128390897877088
Pyth Data Association has announced the successful completion of a strategic fundraise that brings new backers, thought leaders, and contributors into the Pyth community.
These new community members include Castle Island Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Wintermute Ventures, Borderless Capital, CMT Digital, Bodhi Ventures, Distributed Global, and Delphi Digital.
https://pyth.network/blog/expanding-the-pyth-community-strategic-capital-and-new-builders
Hashflow 2.0 is live.
Key features:
▫️Smart Order Routing (SOR)
▫️Deployment on Solana
▫️New front-end design
hashflowdex/hashflow-2-0-is-live-b158a78fde4b" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@hashflowdex/hashflow-2-0-is-live-b158a78fde4b
Binance has announced a $500,000 airdrop to Binance Web3 Wallet users.
https://twitter.com/binance/status/1732022015799021733
Thirdweb has disclosed a serious security vulnerability in some NFT collections on Opensea, Coinbase NFT platforms.
The companies are already working on fixing the vulnerabilities.
https://www.theblock.co/post/266004/coinbase-nft-opensea-thirdweb-vulnerability