Crypto Daybook Americas: Massive Selloff Doesn’t Stop Bitcoin Institutional Adoption Your day-ahead look for Jan. 14, 2025

Bitcoin Bull Tom Lee Sees BTC Reaching as High as $250K by Year-End Fundstrat’s head of research, Tom Lee, calls for a potential short-term drawdown but remains bullish regarding the end-of-year target.

Options Tied to BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Surge to Nearly 50% of Deribit’s BTC Open Interest in Two Months Options linked to BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF (IBIT) began trading on Nov. 19 and have since grown to half the size of Deribit’s BTC options market.

One of Italy’s Largest Bank Buys $1M Worth of Bitcoin: Report Banking giant Intesa Sanpaolo, which has a market cap of $73 billion, has made its first crypto purchase.

Is Bitcoin Bottom In? BTC’s Price Action is Inverse of December Peak Above $108K BTC’s latest price action seems to contrast sharply with the uptrend exhaustion observed at record highs above $108K in mid-December.

Stacks’ Muneeb Ali: Let the Bitcoin L2s Bloom Fresh off completing significant technical upgrades, Ali is now laser focused on growing Stacks’ user base.

Global Investment Giant Capital Group Reaches 5% Stake in Bitcoin Holder Metaplanet Capital Group is also the second-largest shareholder in MicroStrategy, trailing only Michael Saylor.

Jamie Dimon Still Sees ‘No Value’ in Bitcoin The crypto’s main uses are for sex trafficking, money laundering and ransomware, claimed Dimon, a longtime foe of bitcoin.

Bitcoin Under Pressure as Goldman Trims Fed Rate Cut Expectations, BofA Sees Potential Hike After Blowout Jobs Report Risk assets trade weak as investment banks pare back Fed rate cuts in the wake of Friday’s hotter-than-expected U.S. jobs report.

Bitcoin accelerates its slide, falling to $90,000 to start the week Bitcoin dropped to the $90,000 mark to start the week, extending weekend losses as investors continued to dump tech stocks.

Trump’s Treasury Pick to Divest Bitcoin ETF Holdings to Eliminate Conflict of Interest: Report Trump’s Treasury nominee Scott Bessent plans to liquidate a string of investments, including BTC ETF, to avoid a potential conflict of interest.

Why High Net-Worth Investors Are Super Bullish on Bitcoin Right Now The difference in outlook between traders and high net-worth individuals has never been greater, according to David Siemer, CEO of Wave Digital Assets.

Babylon Labs Brings New Momentum to Bitcoin ZK Tech Through Bridge to Cosmos Chains Babylon, developer of the largest BTC staking protocol, is teaming up with Bitcoin developers Fiamma to build a trust-minimized bridge using BitVM2

Bitcoin Registers 14 Green Hourly Candles, Longest Streak Since 2017 K33 Research suggests this type of price action has only occurred a few times since 2017.

U.S.-Listed Bitcoin Miners Accounted for 25% of Global Network in December: Jefferies Mining profitability increased last month as the rally in bitcoin outpaced the increase in the network hashrate, the report said.

Bitcoin Funding Rates Briefly Went Negative, Usually Marks a Local Bottom: Van Straten Glassnode data shows that the perpetual funding rate went negative for the first time in 2025.

Bitcoin Data Indicates Ripe Buying Period as BTC Nears $95K BTC neared $95,000 in European morning hours Friday after a slump in U.S. hours sent it to near $90,000 late Thursday, down 10% from a weekly high above $120,000.

Bitcoin Heads to $90K as Crypto Selloff Gathers Steam Strong economic data and a slumping bond market have called into question the idea of any rate cuts this year.

Bitcoin Gives Up Gains Post New Year-Spiral, But $120K Bets Still Remain Hot Macro jitters have pushed back BTC to where it was a week ago. Still, bullish bets in options market remain as popular as ever.

Bitcoin ETFs Suffer $582M Net Outflow, Second-Highest Tally Ever The ETFs bleed money as renewed U.S. inflation fears dent Fed rate cuts and boost bond market volatility