Thai authorities have seized 3,642 mining devices worth $8,600,000 from seven organizations suspected of financing Chinese scam groups.

Police say the mining operations helped the criminals solve two tasks: converting stolen electricity into revenue and laundering illicit funds through digital assets.

Bitcoin 100 — the largest public companies holding Bitcoin in treasury (as of December 7, 2025)

Over the last 7 days:
⬆️ 8 companies increased their holdings:

The top 100 public companies collectively hold 1,059,453 BTC.

Saylor has almost returned to last year's level 📈

MicroStrategy added +$21.48 billion to its bitcoin treasury in 2025.
That's just $500 million less than the $21.97 billion added for all of 2024.

Bitcoin Supply Visualization

With only 1,039,896 $BTC left out of the 21 million total, Bitcoin is approaching its full supply, with over 95% already mined.

Only 450 new coins are created each day, making scarcity its most powerful market force.

CryptoQuant Reports: Short-Term Bitcoin Holders in Severe Distress, Many Trading Below Their Cost Basis

YouTube allows American content creators to receive payments in the PayPal PYUSD stablecoin as the platform integrates cryptocurrency payment options, reports Fortune.

In the last 24 hours, a whale withdrew 600 $BTC, worth $52.12 million, from #Bybit.
The whale now holds 1,099 $BTC, valued at $94.5 million.

Altcoin Vector:

We are operating in a market characterized by indecisiveness.

On one hand, BTC has not reclaimed its leadership.
On the other hand, altcoins remain reactive, range-bound, and each subsequent bounce continues to weaken.

The positive: altcoins are still holding a multi-month support level against BTC, which they have been forming for six months.

All it takes is a single spark to ignite momentum.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) services can now be paid for using BNB.

According to Jameson Lopp, a Bitcoin Core developer, migrating to post-quantum standards will take at least 5–10 years.

He agreed with Adam Back that quantum computers do not pose a threat to BTC in the near future.

VanEck believes the BTC market is going through a stabilization phase.

Brief highlights from the latest ChainCheck report by VanEck:

▪️ Corporations are buying the dip.
While investors are selling Bitcoin ETPs, corporate treasuries (DAT) purchased 42,000 BTC ($3.7bn) in the first half of December — the highest level since July 2025.

▪️ Miners are capitulating.
Network hashrate fell by 4% over the month, the sharpest decline since April 2024. Historically, in 65% of cases, BTC rose within the following 90 days after such a drop.

▪️ A split among holders.
Mid-term holders (1–5 years) are selling.
Long-term holders (5+ years) are largely inactive.

▪️ Excess leverage has been flushed out.
Perpetual futures funding rates have declined, reducing speculative pressure.

➠ VanEck’s conclusion:
On-chain data looks weak, but liquidity is improving, leverage has been cleared, and “smart money” is buying. A bullish structure is forming beneath the current correction.

Sentiment: 🧐🐬🦈🐳 The number of wallets containing at least 1 Bitcoin has decreased by -2.2% since its annual peak on March 3. HOWEVER, a slightly smaller group of >1 $BTC wallets collectively holds +136,670 more coins since then.

Strategy acquired 1,229 BTC for ~$108.8 million at ~$88,568 per Bitcoin and has achieved a BTC return of 23.2% since the beginning of 2025. As of December 28, 2025, they hold 672,497 BTC, acquired for ~$50.44 billion at an average price of ~$74,997 per Bitcoin.

Another historical pattern has been broken.

Whales are accumulating $BTC faster than ever.

SharpLink receives an average of about 500 ETH per week from Ethereum staking.

Since launching its Ethereum strategy on June 2, 2025, the treasury's cumulative staking rewards have exceeded 10,000 ETH.

In 2025, Meteora, Jupiter, and Uniswap led among DeFi protocols in terms of fee revenue—each protocol earned over $1 billion for the year.

A Reddit user shared how he lost access to his BTC for 7 years due to a single typo.

In 2017, he encrypted a BIP38 paper wallet with a password he considered secure and easy to remember, but when trying to regain access in 2024, none of his attempts worked. It turned out the mistake was just one character — he had pressed a neighboring key.

The story serves as a reminder of how critical small details are when self-custodying cryptocurrency.

$ETH has recorded a net inflow of nearly $50 billion over the past year.

glassnode: The 1-month active user retention metric for the Ethereum network shows a sharp spike in the "New Users" cohort, indicating an increase in the number of addresses interacting with the network for the first time within the last 30 days.

This reflects a notable influx of new wallets interacting with the Ethereum network, rather than activity driven solely by existing participants.

Bitmine now owns 3.372% of the total circulating supply of $ETH.