HISTORY: 🟠 Hal Finney sent this email days after Bitcoin was created.

When he wrote this, Bitcoin cost $0.

“I have only 600 #Bitcoin” 👀

- Ichi, 2010

🟠 US Net Worth in Bitcoin by age group

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC acknowledges President Trump's Truth Social #Bitcoin ETF 👀

🟠 Bitcoin returns since 2010 👀

JUST IN: 🇸🇪 Nordic bank Nordea to offer Bitcoin ETFs to customers starting December 🙌

Nordea previously banned all employees from owning Bitcoin in June.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just met with Singapore's Prime Minister to discuss Bitcoin and crypto adoption 🚀

YESTERDAY: 🟠 A solo miner who rented less than $100 in hashpower on NiceHash has successfully mined Bitcoin block 928351, earning a 3.152 $BTC reward worth ~$271K.

JUST IN: 🟠 There's now an 83% chance of Bitcoin hitting $80,000 first before going up to $150,000, according to Polymarket 👀

SATOSHI NAKAMOTO: 🟠 “I actually did this kind of backwards. I had to write all the code before I could convince myself that I could solve every problem, then I wrote the paper.”

JUST IN: 🟠 Michael Saylor posts the Saylor Bitcoin tracker, hinting at buying more BTC 🚀

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Trump Media acquired 451 more Bitcoin for $40.3 million.

NEW: 🟠 Bitcoin and crypto are now the worst-performing asset classes of 2025 📉

NEW: 🇸🇪 Swedish BTC AB raises SEK 7.2M to expand its Bitcoin Treasury.

DATA: 🟠 Bitcoin's cost-basis heatmap highlights the importance of $85K support.

976,000 BTC worth $83 BILLION were bought here, making it one of the strongest demand zones on the chart.

NEW: 🟠 Traders on Polymarket give Bitcoin better odds than both gold and the S&P 500 to be the top performer of the three in 2026 👀

NEW: 🟠 Bitcoin mining difficulty recorded a net increase of 35% in 2025 👀

BULLISH: 🟠 Citigroup reiterates a ‘Buy’ rating on Strategy’s $STRD Preferred Stock, with an average $241.56 price target implying 209.69% upside from its latest $78 close.

JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia’s largest bank Sberbank issues its first Bitcoin-backed loan 🔥

NEW: 🇯🇵 Metaplanet has received ¥21.249B JPY (~$136M USD) in proceeds and is now officially an issuer of Bitcoin-backed perpetual preferred stock.

They become the first Bitcoin treasury company after Strategy to issue preferred shares.

BULLISH: 🟠 Bitcoin mining difficulty every New Year's Eve:

2009: 1
2010: 14,500
2011: 1,160,000
2012: 2,980,000
2013: 1,180,000,000
2014: 40,600,000,000
2015: 93,400,000,000
2016: 318,000,000,000
2017: 1,870,000,000,000
2018: 5,100,000,000,000
2019: 13,000,000,000,000
2020: 18,600,000,000,000
2021: 24,300,000,000,000
2022: 35,400,000,000,000
2023: 72,000,000,000,000
2024: 110,000,000,000,000
2025: 148,000,000,000,000

It's 148 trillion times harder to mine a bitcoin block today than it was on NYE 2009.

Happy New Year 🎆