Several crypto influencers have reported that YouTube has removed some videos without any notice.

https://cryptopotato.com/new-youtube-crypto-ban-the-giant-started-removing-cryptocurrency-related-videos-with-no-warning/

Binance DEX Adds BNB/ETH Trading Pair.

https://www.binance.org/en/trade/BNB_ETH-1C9
https://twitter.com/Binance_DEX/status/1209398239566237696

Binance has added USDT/RUB, ETH/TRY and XRP/TRY trading pairs.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360037903712

Private key management firm Torus has announced that their wallet allows users to send Ethereum (ETH) to any Reddit username or google email account.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/torus-encourages-users-to-test-their-wallet-by-sending-ethereum-via-reddit

Tencent, the Chinese internet giant and owner of WeChat, is reportedly forming a team to explore possible new use cases for cryptocurrencies.

https://www.coindesk.com/chinese-internet-giant-tencent-to-launch-digital-currency-research-team

CZ tweeted: "It may be time the crypto community take a stab at its own blockchain-enabled sensorship-resistent social media platform..."

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1209705358010118145

Next week, Craig Wright is set to receive the keys for 1.1 million BTC (~$8 billion).

https://cryptoslate.com/final-countdown-craig-wrights-1m-btc-fortune-to-be-unlocked-in-9-days/

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has recently published an alternative proposal for an early transition to Ethereum 2.0.

In a Dec. 23 post on the ETH Research forum, Buterin has set out an “accelerated schedule” for the transition from Ethereum 1.0 to Ethereum 2.0 through a new type of ETH validator referred to as “eth1-friendly validators.”

https://ethresear.ch/t/alternative-proposal-for-early-eth1-eth2-merge/6666
https://cointelegraph.com/news/buterin-wants-to-speed-up-ethereum-20-transition-with-eth1-friendly-validators

YouTube has removed a video with Vitalik Buterin answering questions regarding the Ethereum roadmap in 2016.

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1210028380474793985
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4cqbvr/qa_w_vitalik_buterin_on_ethereum_roadmap_at/

Vitalik Buterin also welcomes experiments on creating a blockchain-enabled sensorship-resistent social media platform.

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1209811976513306624

YouTube erroneously purged cryptocurrency education videos from its video-sharing platform this week but claims to have reinstated them.

https://www.coindesk.com/youtube-calls-crypto-purge-a-mistake-but-many-videos-still-missing

MetaMask stated that its Android client was suspended "in the last week" with Google citing its policy of banning mobile mining apps from its app store. MetaMask, as an Ethereum application browser, however, does not offer mining activities.

https://twitter.com/metamask_io/status/1210299207820570624
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/51556/google-suspends-metamasks-android-client-rejects-appeal

Facebook’s Libra project has failed in its current form and needs reworking to be approved, said the president of Switzerland where the cryptocurrency is seeking regulatory consent.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cryptocurrency/facebooks-libra-has-failed-in-current-form-swiss-president-idUSKBN1YV1G8

Ethereum research scientist Virgil Griffith, who was arrested last month for allegedly assisting North Korea in learning more about blockchain and cryptocurrencies, has been denied bail. U.S. Attorney's Office denied bail, citing Griffith’s text messages to his parents about renouncing his U.S. citizenship and setting up a money laundering business in North Korea.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/51610/ethereum-developer-virgil-griffith-denied-bail-in-north-korea-case

South Korea’s central bank is organizing a task force to research central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

https://www.coindesk.com/south-korean-central-bank-to-organize-a-cdbc-task-force

DigiByte founder is going to launch DigiDollar, a USD-pegged decentralized stablecoin on the DigiByte blockchain.

https://twitter.com/jaredctate/status/1210179494020960256

In a statement to Bloomberg News, Craig Wright said that he “cannot be certain that information will in fact arrive” to help identify the coins he has to split in a legal dispute. The Australian scientist added that he hasn’t said the “private keys” to those coins would become available or be actually used next month.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-27/bitcoin-alleged-creator-says-his-fortune-may-remain-locked

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres says the intergovernmental giant needs to embrace blockchain.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2019/12/28/secretary-general-says-united-nations-must-embrace-blockchain/#a5fbec71379a

The 33 billion TRX owned and locked by the Tron Foundation is expected to be unlocked on January 1, 2020.
In this case, the сirculating supply will increase by 50%, and TRON market cap at the current rate will be $1.36 billion.

https://newslogical.com/tron-foundation-to-unlock-33-billion-trx-on-1st-of-january-2020/
https://thedailychain.com/tron-set-to-start-2020-with-33-billion-trx-out-of-the-box/

Coinbase has warned its users that in order to comply with Apple’s mobile App Store policy, it may be forced to remove the DApp browser feature from its wallet application.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/apple-may-remove-coinbases-mobile-dapp-browser-from-app-store