👋 One of the earliest mainstream mentions of Bitcoin

The legal drama "The Good Wife." This episode aired 11 years ago — January 15, 2012. Bitcoin was priced at $7.15.

- I bought one bitcoin online yesterday
- What?

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🔹 Ethereum surpasses Bitcoin in number of wallets

The count of non-zero addresses on Ethereum has reached 189.49 million, significantly overtaking Bitcoin's figure.

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💰If you had started dollar-cost averaging (DCA) $10 per day into Bitcoin, gold, and the S&P500 — regardless of price — starting from Bitcoin's last all-time high (November 10, 2021), your portfolio performance today would look like this:

BTC: +40%
Gold: +5%
S&P500: +13%

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💰 Here are the 5 richest Bitcoin addresses and their reported owners, according to Arkham Intelligence:

1) Binance Cold Storage: 34xp4vRoCGJym3xR7yCVPFHoCNxv4Twseo – over 248,597 Bitcoin (💵 $6.4B)
2) Bitfinex Cold Storage: bc1qgdjqv0av3q56jvd82tkdjpy7gdp9ut8tlqmgrpmv24sq90ecnvqqjwvw97 – 178,010 Bitcoin (💵 $4.6B)
3) Robinhood: bc1ql49ydapnjafl5t2cp9zqpjwe6pdgmxy98859v2 – 118,300 Bitcoin (💵 $3B)
4) Binance Cold Storage: 39884E3j6KZj82FK4vcCrkUvWYL5MQaS3v – 115,177 Bitcoin (💵 $2.98B)
5) Bitfinex Hack Recovery (likely held by 🇺🇸 FBI): bc1qazcm763858nkj2dj986etajv6wquslv8uxwczt – 94,000 Bitcoin (💵 ~$2.4B)

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Top countries people are migrating to more

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🦜 The birds keep showering us with bonuses

Grab the latest drop of 50,000 coins in BIRD

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The last four years have been one wild rollercoaster ride,

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🥷 Less than 1% of all Bitcoin has ever been linked to criminal activity

Comparing 2012 to 2022, the data shows a clear trend: instances of Bitcoin being used for illicit purposes have significantly declined over time.

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🏠 Eight years ago, buying an average house in the U.S. would’ve cost 500 BTC. Today, it’s just 7 BTC.

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⚡️Today marks 15 years since the first Bitcoin block was mined.

On January 3, 2009, a person under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin mainnet by mining the genesis block containing 50 BTC.

Shortly before the network’s launch, on October 31, 2008, the Bitcoin white paper was published.

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25 of the world's most valuable assets. Bitcoin included.

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Grayscale currently holds $16 billion worth of Bitcoin across 1,750 addresses — each containing no more than 1,000 BTC.

This gives you an idea of how significant the conversion of their trust into a Bitcoin ETF will be.

And keep in mind — we’re also looking at BlackRock with $10 trillion in assets under management, Fidelity with $5 trillion, and other major players ready to step in.

#Bitcoin #ETF #Grayscale #BlackRock #Fidelity

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🐳 Whale makes another bet on oil

A major trader has deposited ~$8M on Hyperliquid and opened a long position in oil, sticking with a strategy that’s been profitable before.

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If Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy had invested the same funds into Ether instead of Bitcoin, it would be sitting on an unrealized gain of $2.5 billion—rather than a $400 million loss.

Saylor would also control roughly 11% of staked Ether, assuming he participated in staking.

Plus, staking at that scale would generate the company more income than its current earnings.

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🛑 Over 12,000 cryptocurrencies have virtually stopped trading this year.

That's in

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18,797,203,666,237 dollars would need to be invested in Bitcoin to push it to 1,000,000 dollars within three months.

This simplified calculation doesn’t account for factors like market liquidity, order book depth, or potential depreciation of the US dollar.

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🔸 Crypto in a single word.
In a 2021 Bloomberg poll, people described cryptocurrencies using just one word.

As expected, many labeled it as fantasy, scam, pyramid, bubble—terms tied to fraud or speculation. Yet, a significant number described its future as freedom, innovation, and empowerment.

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The most crypto-friendly countries

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In 2022, Bitcoin miners earned over $9 billion.

And in total, over the past 13 years, the amount of Bitcoin mined has reached...

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📊 "The Bitcoin bull cycle is far from over, as relatively low levels of new investment inflows suggest," says CryptoQuan

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📉 Bitcoin drops below $58,000 amid U.S. government fund movements

On the evening of August 14, 2024, Arkham analysts reported that U.S. authorities transferred 10,000 BTC to the Coinbase Prime platform. Following this news, the asset's price sharply declined.

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