🇰🇷⚠️ South Korea fined Bithumb $24 million and ordered a partial suspension of operations for 6 months due to violations of anti-money laundering laws.

⛏️ Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR) has officially launched its new LTC/DOGE miner, the SEALMINER DL1 Air. It delivers 25 GH/s hashrate, 149 J/GH efficiency, and 3725W power consumption, with multiple operating modes including a low-power mode reaching 136 J/GH efficiency.

🆕 $CFG listed on Binance futures

🇺🇸👀 #macro USA - NY Empire State Manufacturing Index (March) = -0.2 (expected +4 / prior +7.1)

🇺🇸🇨🇳 #tradewars The White House announced that the meeting between Trump and the President of China will be postponed.

💰 #ETH Bitmine acquired 60,999 ETH last week.

🇺🇸👀 #macro USA - Industrial Production (Feb) = +0.2% m/m (exp +0.1% / prev +0.7%)

🐳 An OTC whale “0xfb7” sent 12,000 $ETH ($27.43M) into FalconX and 330 $cbBTC ($243.68M) into Coinbase, likely to sell and repay the loan.

Currently, the whale holds:

- 3,670 $cbBTC ($273.56M)
- 120,380 $stETH ($276.7M)
- 17,753 $WETH ($40.76M)

Borrowed: $97.41M $USDT from Aave

Market review 16.03.2025

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:

Bitcoin ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +2,227 $BTC (+$163.91M)
7D NetFlow: +10,225 $BTC (+$752.57M)

Ethereum ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +11,681 $ETH (+$26.66M)
7D NetFlow: +49,820 $ETH (+$113.69M)

Solana ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +88,561 $SOL (+$8.32M)
7D NetFlow: +101,441 $SOL (+$9.54M)

📊 Quarterly $BTC options expiring at month-end now account for over 40% of total open interest, with $75,000 call options making up more than 5%, showing an unprecedented concentration of bullish bets.

With $BTC around $73,500, the market is closely watching whether it can break above the $75,000 gamma wall this week.

🏦 Elon Musk's xAI is recruiting Wall Street bankers, portfolio managers, and traders to train Grok on financial modeling.

🕵️ As the market started pumping, the Matrixport Entity Address holding $BTC (20x) and $ETH (15x) long positions now has a floating profit of over $23.5M overall, making over $15.5M.

Stats:

- 70,000.7 $ETH ($159.5M), profit: $20.09M
- 700 $BTC ($51.3M), profit: $3.4M

🇻🇳🏴‍☠️ Vietnam’s crypto saga has evolved from 2017’s Wild West, marked by scams and skepticism, to a regulated frontier by 2026. Thanh Le, who has been involved since the beginning, highlights how over 20 million holders, a booming DeFi sector, and Resolution 05 have transformed chaos into a national strategy.

🕵️ BitMine ($BMNR) reports $11.5B in holdings, including 4.6M $ETH, 196 $BTC, a $200M stake in Beast Industries, and $1.2B in cash.

💵 250,000,000 #USDC (250,000,000 USD) minted at USDC Treasury

🗣 President Trump says the Fed should hold a "special meeting" to cut interest rates "right now." He stated, "What's a better time to cut interest rates than now? A 3rd grade student would know that." #macro

📝 New academic research shows Bitcoin could reach $1M by early 2027 and $5M by 2031 if current demand levels continue.

🗣 Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio stated that the outcome of the ongoing Iran conflict depends on control of the Strait of Hormuz. He noted that if Iran can manipulate oil flows through the strait, it could be perceived as a loss for the U.S., undermining confidence in its global leadership and financial assets. Conversely, ensuring free navigation through the strait would bolster that confidence.

🇺🇸👀 #BTC Eric Trump to speak at the world's largest Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas next month

🔮 Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang expects revenue to surpass $1 trillion by 2027.