💰 About 461,000 transactions worth $10–15 billion pass through the Bitcoin network daily.

🗽 In the USA, they are developing a rule according to which small payments in stablecoins up to $200 will not be taxed like regular purchases.

And they want to pay taxes on mining not immediately, but only when the income received is actually sold or withdrawn as money.

💸 Northern Data, a controlling stake in which belongs to Tether, sold its mining division to companies owned by Tether executives.

🇰🇷 In South Korea, there are calls to urgently institutionalize stablecoins, otherwise the country risks losing control over the payment system.

➤ Dollar stablecoins are already used in the real economy, including for paying foreign workers' salaries.

➤ Businesses are starting to use them for international settlements, regardless of the state's position.

➤ National stablecoins remain outside the financial infrastructure, while business and payments shift towards dollar stablecoins.

➤ Stablecoins are faster and cheaper than traditional cross-border payments, so their widespread adoption in the financial system is almost inevitable.

➤ A "Digital Asset Basic Act" bill is already being prepared in parliament. Authorities view stablecoins not only as protection against dollarization but also as a growth strategy focusing on small businesses and cultural payments.

💰 A video is circulating online in which a man claims to have found a USB flash drive from 2009 with 100 BTC in its balance.

📊 Annual return on different assets in 2025:

🔴 Silver: +130%
🔴 Gold: +65%
🔴 Copper: +35%
🔴 Nasdaq: +20%
🔴 S&P 500: +16%
🔴 Russell 2000: +13%
🔴 BTC: -6%
🔴 ETH: -12%
🔴 Altcoins: -42%

💰 Spot XRP ETFs have continued their "green streak" for 6 consecutive weeks, during which the funds have accumulated more than $1.2  billion.

Meanwhile, spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded further outflows last week — $497  million and $644  million respectively.

🐳 Tom Lee's BitMine purchased an additional 98,800 ETH last week — now the company's balance is 4,066,062 ETH.

🤖Tether announcedthe launch of QVAC Genesis II — a large open dataset for training artificial intelligence.

It contains 148 billion tokens, which can be used for training AI in chemistry, medicine, physics, mathematics, economics, and other sciences.

The project is designed for developers and researchers around the world.

🟦 Coinbase acquires a market forecasting startup The Clearing Company.

💰 Michael Saylor's company Strategy did not buy BTC last week, but increased its reserves by $748 million and now owns $2.19 billion and 671,268 BTC.

#bnb
🔸 On Kalshi they added support for BNB Chain – deposits and withdrawals in BNB are now available on the American equivalent of Polymarket.

📊 VanEck draws attention to the strongest monthly drop in BTC's hash rate since April 2024, which could be an indication of miners' capitulation.

Historically, after such a powerful drop in hash rate, BTC has rebounded in the next 90 days in 65% of cases.

📈 An analyst compares the current BTC price with the level around $16,000 at the end of 2022, pointing to similar December weakness on the charts.

In his opinion, if the market follows the historical pattern again, growth may begin after January 7, as it did in 2023.

The conclusion is based on seasonality and recurring market cycles.

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