Halving the next hype cycle
101 days and 14512 blocks left
News
ETF?
SEC’s bitcoin ETF tweet fiasco may end in fraud charges, lawyers say - Blockworks
Day 1 Trade data:
Grayscale: $2.3 billion
BlackRock: $1 billion
Fidelity: $700 million
ARK 21Shares: $288 million
Bitwise: $125 million
Coinbase did $7B in Bitcoin transfers OTC during the day.
Wally Street seems happy with the results
$200M of folks finally getting out
Eric Balchunas on XX
James Seyffart on X
"UPDATE: We don't have to wait till tonight for $GBTC Flows. Just -$95 million. A fraction of what I and many were thinking. This means yesterday was a huge success in my opinion. Likely going to see an inflow number for $BRRR from Valkyrie too! Day 1 Net flows sit at $625 mln
The FCA, Britain's consumer financial regulator, guidelines discriminate against certain customers as unsuitable to buy bitcoin
Economics
Arthur Hayes on the confluence of financial system, banking, and economic stress, which means bitcoin might dump
This relates to the U.S. central bank's BTFP expiring in March
Shinobi on Bitcoin Magazine explains the economic rational for layered scaling in terms of Jevons Paradox, the observation that increasing efficency can also increase demand, which increases price
Privacy
GrapheneOS discloses vulnerabilities actively exploited by forensic companies \ stacker news ~security
The team and users at GrapheneOS have uncovered a vulnerability in smartphones being actively used by digital forensics companies / exploit brokers to facilitate extractions in the after-first unlock (AFU) phase.
Bitcoin Education
Bitcoin Optech #238 covers lightning anchors and LN Symetry, as well as reviwing some bitcoin core review club questions
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