Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Buys $100M BTC Boosting Total Total Stash to $1B The miner bought about 990 bitcoin for average price of around $101,710 each.

Craig Wright Faces Demand for Two-Year Prison Sentence in Contempt-of-Court Case COPA claims Wright’s attempt to sue for intellectual property rights related to bitcoin violate a July court order.

Crypto Daybook Americas: Fed Dashes Quiet Christmas Hopes Your day-ahead look for Dec. 19, 2024

VIX’s Second-Largest Spike in History Indicates a Local Bottom for Bitcoin: Van Straten The VIX jumped 74% yesterday after a 25bps rate cut and a hawkish outlook from Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

Razzlekhan’s Husband, the Bitfinex Hacker, Makes First Public Statement Since Arrest In a video posted to X, Ilya Lichtenstein reiterates he acted alone in stealing 120,000 bitcoin, denying a Netflix documentary’s speculation.

Founder of DeFi Giant Curve Gets Liquidated Again as CRV Slumps Curve founder Michael Egorov played down the $882,000 liquidation on X.

More Than Half of Crypto Tokens Debuted in 2024 Were Malicious: Blockaid As much as $1.4 billion was lost to crypto scams and fraud in 2024, Blockain said.

U.S. Listed Spot Bitcoin ETFs on the Verge of Surpassing Gold ETFs U.S. spot-listed bitcoin ETFs currently have an AUM of $120 billion compared to gold’s $125 billion.

Bitcoin’s Nosedive to Under $100K Shaves $700M Crypto Longs, XRP Drops 5% XRP and DOGE futures recorded an unusually high $70 million in liquidations, indicative of rising speculative activity in majors.

Hawkish Fed Has Bitcoin Market Feeling Most Fearful in 3 Months Short-term BTC puts are in demand after hawkish Fed dented the bullish sentiment in risk assets.

Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Swaps Its cbBTC for WBTC After Sun Joins as Adviser The swap took place Wednesday, the same day BiT Global lost a court case seeking to prevent Coinbase delisting WBTC.

Crypto’s Estate Planning Problem: A Wake-Up Call U.S. tax changes set for 2025 mean digital asset holders should consider strategies to protect their wealth, say Jeff Verdon, Moish Peltz and Kyle Lawrence.

How Wall Street’s Relationship With Bitcoin Will Transform in 2025: 5 Predictions From MicroStrategy splitting its stock to major banks acquiring crypto firms, bitcoin is about to enter its “Wall Street” era.

‘DeFi on Bitcoin’ Gets a Boost as BOB L2 Integrates $6B BTC Staking Protocol Babylon The integration allows BOB, a “hybrid L2,” to use Bitcoin as its anchor chain where transactions with assets from other chains can be irreversibly recorded.

Trump Administration Has Already Unlocked ‘New Era’ for U.S. Crypto: JPMorgan The worst regulatory environment for crypto markets is behind us, the report said.

Out With the “Altcoin,” in With the Asset Class It’s time to retire the “altcoin” moniker and embrace crypto as an asset class, says Max Freccia.

Kraken’s Ink Layer-2 Goes Live The team had originally planned for Ink to go live in early 2025, so the launch of the main network is ahead of schedule.

Three Predictions For 2025 2024 has been a pivotal year for crypto. However, the real turning point is still to come. Here are three predictions for 2025 that could help ignite it, says Marcin Kazmierczak.

Fed Cuts Interest Rates by 25 Basis Points, Bitcoin Slips Below $104K on Hawkish Tone The price of bitcoin, already lower from yesterday, dipped below $104,000 in the minutes following the announcement.

Deutsche Bank’s L2 Blockchain to Be ‘Public and Permissioned,’ Says Tech Partner The banking giant is building a rollup on Ethereum using Matter Labs’ ZKsync technology.