🤔 Arthur Hayes: There’s always an altseason. If you keep saying there isn’t one, it’s because you didn’t own what rose in price. There was an altseason—you just didn’t participate. (Cointelegraph)
💰 The Ethereum ICO wallet 0xbDb6, inactive for more than a decade, has just moved its entire 2,000 ETH (about $5.96M) to a new wallet. The holder invested only $620 in the ICO and received 2,000 ETH — now worth roughly $5.96 million, a 9,616× return.
👋 Pro-crypto U.S. Senator Lummis won’t seek re-election in 2026. (Cointelegraph)
🇺🇸 The Blockchain Association, a crypto-advocacy group, has sent a letter to the US Senate Banking Committee. It’s signed by more than 125 crypto groups and companies and opposes the ban on providing services and rewards to stablecoin holders. (Cointelegraph)
Today’s highlights (Friday, December 19):
- Japan’s central bank rate hike
- Bitcoin OG transfers BTC to the exchange
- Arthur Hayes on altcoins
- BTC enters the recovery phase
- Mysterious stream on the White House website
- Limited watches from Base
- People vs Neurons
- BlackRock sells ETH
- Record expiration on the US stock market
- Cryptocurrency regulation in the USA
- Partnership between TRON and Base
- DPRK crypto hacks
- Citi forecasts for BTC and ETH
- Strategy: stock decline
- The Loser Whale
- Arthur Hayes on QE
- Fed Update
🧠🎢 #FOMO tonight:
- PTB +90% today: PTB appeared among the top purchases on all CEXs at 08:05 Moscow time, and at 10:06 it was first in open-interest growth. From 13:05, large selling kicked in and the price fell rapidly.
- ARC +40% since yesterday evening: purchases started last night at 22:35, and this morning ARC was among the leaders in open-interest growth. From 13:05 ARC shifted to the top in sales on all CEXs and led Bybit Futures in sales. By 15:36 it topped the open-interest decline, and the price retraced all its gains.
#CAreport 📊 Chart 👈
#RedDreams #BTC 🐻 Fractal patterns from 2018, 2022, and now suggest BTC could retrace to $35,000. These charts are gaining traction on Twitter.
🗽 The price of the American dream is $5.043 million—the full cost of living by the standard. Of this, $1.6 million is a retirement nest egg to last another 20 years without work. Does the dream still look attractive? 🤔
SmartMoney pumped #snowball by about 1800% and #bearcoin by nearly 1000% since yesterday evening. Snowball purchases began yesterday at 21:00 Moscow time, and at 21:09 memcoin appeared in the leading position in the top list of purchases from smart wallets, where it has stayed today for most of the time. Bearcoin purchases started yesterday at 21:57, and memcoin immediately rose to second place in the top purchases list from smart wallets, but the main price surge began today at 01:54 when large purchases resumed. Within an hour, SmartMoney began taking profits and the price started to fall rapidly. @cryptoattackbot #CAreport
