Bitcoin’s Computing Power May Hit a Major Milestone Long Before Next Halving Bitcoin’s hashrate increased by approximately 50% in 2024, and it is currently on course to rise for the eighth consecutive time.

Do Kwon Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud Following Extradition to US: Reuters Kwon’s Terraform Labs developed the luna cryptocurrency and stablecoin terraUSD, which folded in 2022, losing an estimated $40 billion

Beware of Bitcoin’s ‘Shooting Star’ Warning at Record Highs: Godbole The candlestick pattern shows sellers are looking to reassert themselves as hawkish Fed rate projections drive the DXY higher.

BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Records Its Largest Outflow BlackRock’s IBIT started the new year on a rough note, losing millions in net outflows on Thursday.

Crypto Will See Revolution By Acceleration 2025 will see a sea change in the U.S. regulations, acceptance of bitcoin as digital gold and stablecoins as important rails for payments, says EY’s Paul Brody.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: SOL Gains 7.5%, Leading Index Higher Render (RENDER) joined Solana (SOL) as a top performer, gaining 7.8%.

KuCoin Enables Crypto Point-of-Sale Payments by QR-Code The crypto exchange joins a number of crypto payment providers enabling customers to pay with crypto.

Tether’s Market Value Sees Sharpest Decline Since FTX Crash as MiCA Kicks In Tether’s market cap has declined by over 1% this week, the steepest drop since the crash of FTX in November 2022.

Dollar’s Post-Election Path Is Tracking Trump’s First Presidential Term: Van Straten The DXY index is up over 3% since the election and is following a trajectory similar to his first presidential term.

Tron’s T3 Financial Crime Fighting Unit Hits $100M in Frozen USDT The unit is a joint venture between Tron, TRM Labs and Tether.

XRP Rockets 11% as Bitcoin Starts New Year With Bullish Bang South Korean trading volumes supported an outperformance in XRP, as a CoinDesk analysis noted earlier this week.

Garanti BBVA’s to Provide Crypto Trading Services in Hint of Things to Come European banks will soon be offering crypto services to their customers in the EU, according to Spanish crypto exchange Bit2Me.

Bitcoin-Leveraged Play MicroStrategy’s Bullish Call Skew Disappears in Cautious Market Sentiment The record bullish skew in MSTR options has disappeared as the bitcoin tailwind driven by the Treasury asset narrative loses momentum.

A Year of Crypto Tech In Review A deep dive into 2024’s most impactful crypto tech advancements, including Ethereum’s Duncun upgrade, Solana’s resurgence, and the rise of Layer-2 solutions. Plus: What to expect in 2025.

Three Questions Reveal Your Ideal Bitcoin Allocation How multi-asset investors can assess bitcoin’s compatibility with their portfolios and identify the optimal allocation that aligns with their specific objectives. By Markus Thielen.

Why a U.S. Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Is Critical to Fending Off China China has been waging a decades-long war against the U.S.’s greatest asset — the dollar. A bitcoin reserve would go a long way toward regaining our influence.

Blockchain Fragmentation Is a Major Problem That Must Be Addressed in 2025 For true interoperability to exist, we have to take a step back and re-approach blockchain modularity from a fresh perspective.

MicroStrategy’s Dismal December Still Keeps It at Top of 2024 Bitcoin-Tied Asset Rankings The bitcoin-buying company outperformed many other crypto-linked traditional finance entities this year.

Don’t Expect Bitcoin Fireworks Ahead of New Year, Traders Say, as BTC ETFs Lose $420M The broad-based CoinDesk 20 (CD20), an index tracking the largest tokens by market capitalization, minus stablecoins, lost 2.7% in the past 24 hours.

XRP Volumes Zoom Ahead of Bitcoin, Dogecoin in South Korea. What’s Next? South Korean markets tend to prefer XRP over larger assets such as bitcoin and ether, and a volume bump tends to precede price anomalies on local exchanges.