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Triumph over turmoil in 2024
The crypto industry experienced a remarkable resurgence in 2024, fueled by a Bitcoin bull run that pushed BTC’s market price above $100,000, restoring investor confidence and delivering substantial returns across the crypto market. Amid the numerous significant milestones achieved throughout the year, it is easy to overlook the major challenges that industry players and investors…
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Triumph over turmoil in 2024
The crypto industry experienced a remarkable resurgence in 2024, fueled by a Bitcoin bull run that pushed BTC’s market price above $100,000, restoring investor confidence and delivering substantial returns across the crypto market. Amid the numerous significant milestones achieved throughout the year, it is easy to overlook the major challenges that industry players and investors…
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Hodler’s Digest, Dec. 22 – 28 – Cointelegraph Magazine
Top Stories of The Week IRS issues rules on digital asset reporting, says front-ends are brokers The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued final regulations requiring brokers to report digital asset transactions, expanding existing reporting requirements to include front-end platforms that facilitate transactions involving digital assets for customers, such as decentralized exchanges. Set…
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Hodler’s Digest, Dec. 22 – 28 – Cointelegraph Magazine
Top Stories of The Week IRS issues rules on digital asset reporting, says front-ends are brokers The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued final regulations requiring brokers to report digital asset transactions, expanding existing reporting requirements to include front-end platforms that facilitate transactions involving digital assets for customers, such as decentralized exchanges. Set…
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Bitcoin may reach $150K or $400K in 2025, based on SBR and Fed rates — Blockware
Bitcoin’s price in 2025 could rise up to four times or, at worst, increase by 58%, depending on Donald Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve plan and Federal Reserve policies, says crypto mining firm Blockware Solutions. The 2025 “bear case” for Bitcoin (BTC) could push its price up around 58%, reaching $150,000 from its current price of…
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Ethereum prepped for 2025 rally as monthly Ether ETFs inflows double
Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) hit a new monthly record in December despite the holiday illiquidity, bolstering analyst expectations of an incoming rally. The United States spot Ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reached a new monthly record, surpassing $2.1 billion worth of cumulative net inflows during December. December’s $2.1 billion worth of inflows is nearly double…
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Trump’s Bitcoin policies depend on US economic standing — Ki Young Ju
CryptoQuant CEO and founder Ki Young Ju said that President-elect Donald Trump’s Bitcoin (BTC) policies likely depend on the perceived strength of the United States economy and the US dollar by the global investment community. Ju argued that store-of-value assets like Gold and BTC surge in price when investors perceive threats to US economic hegemony.…
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How they work and where to use them
A common complaint about cryptocurrencies has been the difficulty users face in utilizing them for everyday transactions. But crypto debit cards have bridged the gap between crypto and traditional finance (to an extent), allowing you to spend your cryptocurrencies at millions of merchants worldwide. These cards indicate a significant transformation, where the traditional financial system…
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AI tokens market cap falls 28% from December $70B peak
Artificial intelligence (AI) cryptocurrencies have shed nearly one-third of their cumulative value, despite optimistic expectations of an incoming altcoin season driven by more crypto-friendly regulations during 2025. The cumulative market capitalization of AI cryptocurrencies stood at $50.5 billion as of 7:15 a.m. in UTC, down over 28% from their peak of $70.4 billion recorded on…
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US-listed Bitcoin, Ether ETFs tally $38.3B net inflows in launch year
United States spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds racked up a staggering $35.66 billion in net inflows in 2024 — far exceeding early industry estimates, while the spot Ether ETFs finished strong, seeing net inflows of $349.3 million in the last four trading days to reach $2.68 billion since launch. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) led…
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US-listed Bitcoin, Ether ETFs tally $38.3B net inflows in launch year
United States spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds racked up a staggering $35.66 billion in net inflows in 2024 — far exceeding early industry estimates, while the spot Ether ETFs finished strong, seeing net inflows of $349.3 million in the last four trading days to reach $2.68 billion since launch. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) led…
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Will Solana price hold $180 after 30% drop in weekly DApp volumes?
Solana’s native token SOL (SOL) failed to sustain levels above $200 after multiple rejections between Dec. 25 and Dec. 26. This movement aligned with the broader cryptocurrency market, which saw a 3.5% decline over two days ending Dec. 27. However, SOL underperformed with a 5.1% correction, raising concerns among traders about potential further price declines.…
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NIST proposes standardizing a wider variant of AES encryption
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently proposed standardizing the block and key size used in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to 256 bits. According to NIST, increasing the block size is necessary due to the number of applications with larger volumes of data to process and the growing demand for these data-intensive…
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Crypto Biz: The Year of Bitcoin
Bitcoin has had such a historic year! Nearly 16 years after its network debuted, cryptocurrency solidified its status as a mainstream financial instrument with the approval of 11 exchange-traded funds in January. The ETFs’ launch marked one of the most successful debuts in history thanks to institutional demand, with Bitcoin-focused funds attracting over $113.5 billion…
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Stablecoin adoption, ETFs to propel crypto performance in 2025: Citi
Continued adoption of stablecoins and cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) will propel digital asset performance in 2025, according to a Dec. 26 Citi research report. Crypto ETF inflows, onchain activity, and stablecoin usage all spiked after President-elect Donald Trump won the United States presidential election in November, and those metrics remain elevated going into the new…
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How Donald Trump can Make Ethereum Great Again in 2025
Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) has been marred by under-performance over the last 18 months, seeing Bitcoin (BTC) and a swathe of other alternative layer-1 coins, including the likes of Solana (SOL) and Sui (SUI), dramatically outperforming it. While ETH has gained 88% in the last 18 months, SOL has posted a 1,040% gain, and SUI has…
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EU silence does not make USDT MiCA-compliant, says exec
The European Union’s cryptocurrency regulations are set to take full effect in just a matter of days, but there’s still a significant amount of uncertainty on Tether’s USDt stablecoin. United States crypto exchange Coinbase delisted Tether’s USDt (USDT) in mid-December, citing compliance with the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). After Coinbase’s USDT delisting, the…
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Is the Bitcoin DCA opportunity over? Here’s what traders are thinking
With Bitcoin dominance creeping back up to nearly 60% amid a price stall in the last few days of 2024, there’s a growing belief among traders it could be time to switch their accumulation strategy toward altcoins. “Altcoins, at this juncture, offer a far more optimal R/R [Risk Reward] profile than Bitcoin does,” pseudonymous crypto…
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Solana’s Jito staking pool exceeding $100M in monthly tips: Kairos Research
Solana staking pool Jito clocked monthly revenues from priority fees and tips of more than $100 million in November and December, according to a Dec. 26 note from Kairos Research, a cryptocurrency researcher. In 2024, Jito’s validators scaled tip revenues by an average of 32% each month, Kairos said. Monthly income peaked in November at…
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Bitcoin ETFs, MicroStrategy, whales spur 3X jump in private BTC txs: Analyst
Private Bitcoin transactions — using a process called CoinJoin — has tripled since 2022 as a result of huge Bitcoin accumulators accelerating their purchases of Bitcoin, according to CryptoQuant. These Bitcoin whale addresses are primarily linked to spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds, MicroStrategy and custodial wallets, according to CryptoQuant’s Ki Young Ju, who explained that…