🇺🇸🚀 U.S. Bitcoin miners are powering down as a brutal winter storm sends electricity costs soaring and hash rates plunging.

🕵️ The Bitcoin OG (10/11) got completely liquidated on its $BTC, $ETH, and $SOL long positions, facing a loss of $221.07M and leaving just $54.58 in the wallet.

Overall, the OG has lost $128.87M. link

🕵️ In this dip, the mysterious entity "7 Siblings" borrowed and spent $31.08M in $USDT/$USDC to buy 12,806 $ETH at a price of $2,427.

They still have an open order to buy more ETH with CoWSwap.

- Address: 0x741aa7cfb2c7bf2a1e7d4da2e3df6a56ca4131f3
- Address: 0x28a55c4b4f9615fde3cdaddf6cc01fcf2e38a6b0

🐳 The whale "0xFB7" has further bought 10,000 $ETH for $26.36M from FalconX.

This brings the whale's holdings to 120,169 $ETH, valued at $294.79M in staking.

Address: 0xFB78AA8F38843629e89951D9db6FdC398d75e0A3

📉 $BTC hits the 'Fire Sale' zone for the first time since December 2023.

📊 Base mainnet experienced intermittent transaction inclusion delays, leading to longer confirmation times than usual. The team confirmed that blocks continued to be produced and transactions were processed, but some could be delayed or dropped during network congestion. A fix has been implemented, restoring overall network stability. A full root cause analysis (RCA) will be conducted, and a public postmortem will be released in the coming days. link

🇺🇸🗽 According to WSJ, sources say that in the days before Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, a close associate of an Abu Dhabi royal family member secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to acquire a 49% stake in the Trump family’s emerging crypto company, World Liberty Financial, for $500 million. link

🗣 Jim Cramer says "where are the usual Bitcoin defenders?"

📊 Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that the platform has been steadily accumulating Bitcoin over the past year, with its BTC holdings showing an upward trend. Bitget held approximately 11,127 BTC in January 2025, rising to about 21,889 BTC by January 2026, and peaking at around 23,276 BTC in December 2025. link

📊 BitMine’s ETH treasury is $6B underwater as leverage snaps and liquidity vanishes.

🕵️ Trend Research has deposited 10,000 $ETH, worth $24.35M, into Binance, likely to sell in order to repay the loan. link

😱🤑 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

🐳 The US Government still holds over 328K #BTC while China and the UK only have 194K and 61K respectively.

💸 All 8 traders once made huge profits on Hyperliquid, but every one of them ended up getting wiped out.

Stay away from high leverage.

💸 Once, this BitcoinOG(1011short) topped the leaderboard with $142M+ in profits.

Now he's still ranked #1 — just on the loss leaderboard, with $128.87M in total losses. link

🔓 Major Token Unlocks Coming in Next Week

$ENA $37M (3.3% of M.Cap)
$Q $8.2M (12.9% of M.Cap)
$BERA $31M (59% of M.Cap)
$IN $5.7M (31.4% of M.Cap)
$STABLE $20.5M (5% of M.Cap)

🕵️ It appears that Erik Voorhees created two new wallets and spent 1.72M $USDT to buy 355 $XAUT at $4,842. link link

💰 Trader pension-usdt.eth made $6.33M shorting $ETH over the past 2 days, bringing total profits to over $27.7M.

He has now flipped from short to long, opening a 3× long on 30,000 $ETH ($72.89M). link

📊👀 #BTC We just closed our 4th consecutive red month.

🔮 #JUP Jupiter announced integration with Polymarket and the addition of a forecasting feature to the Jupiter app. link

😱 CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju stated that Bitcoin is experiencing a decline due to persistent selling pressure and a lack of fresh capital inflows. He noted that unless there is significant selling from MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor, a severe 70% crash similar to previous cycles is unlikely. However, he cautioned that the market has not yet established a clear bottom and could enter a prolonged period of sideways consolidation. link