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MicroStrategy started 2023 with a market capitalization of just $1.8 billion. Today, this figure sits at $111 billion.

Michael Saylor’s Class B MicroStrategy stock outvoted Class A 10:1, but so much Class A now exists that he has lost voting control.

Five FTX and Alameda Research executives have now been sentenced, with only three of them expected to serve any time in prison.

The trader known as Griffin created QUANT and used $348 worth of SOL to buy 51 million tokens before selling them for $29,953.

MP Supriya Sule is accused of using $78M of seized bitcoin to fund election campaigns, just days before polling opened in Maharashtra state.

A study by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) claims that successful liquidity providers on Uniswap v3 mimic traditional finance.

Coinbase has announced that it intends to delist Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) from December 19 because it no longer meets the listing requirements.

Six territories in Russia’s North Caucasus region will also face a flat-out ban on crypto mining activities until 2031.

Bitcoin is not only rallying after the re-election of Donald Trump but is further fueled by corporate leverage at four public companies.

Whether bitcoin will destroy all models or only some is up for debate. But for most publicized models, it seems intent on a destructive path.

Crypto exchange Coinbase’s app rapidly spiked to an 8th spot in the US App Store rankings on Wednesday, but has since dropped to 70th place.

World Liberty Financial is still approximately 32% off its revised fundraising goal, despite the endorsement of President-elect Trump.

In 2023, MicroStrategy’s average bitcoin purchase price was near $30,000. Today, that average has jumped to near $50,000.

AMG GPT allegedly lured more than 3,000 people into buying trading bots “for a set time period” in return for seemingly guaranteed returns.

MicroStrategy executives boasted about the ability to yield higher bitcoin exposure per MSTR share over time. We read the fine print.

Litecoin, once described as the crypto silver to bitcoin’s gold, is now apparently self-identifying as a meme coin.

The largest theft was caused by a user signing a malicious ‘permit’ transaction, allowing the scammer to steal 211 stETH worth $654K.

The volume of Hamster Kombat’s token rose from $39M to almost $1.5B in the space of two days despite a 260M player drop.

Bitcoin’s market cap ‘flippened’ Saudi Aramco and the precious metal silver. Bullish investors are looking for the next domino to fall.

Ripple’s token XRP is up to $0.80 after the SEC faces a lawsuit from 18 US states. Now, Ripple’s class action suit is moving forward.

Bitcoiners applauded a post by Marty Bent’s TFTC that claimed Michael Saylor convinced the Hawk Tuah girl to buy bitcoin.

Matt Gaetz, the former Florida representative, has been nominated by Donald Trump to be attorney general, highlighting his crypto stance.

Dog coin-loving crypto bros caused chaos for New York City’s dog mayoral election earlier this month when they interfered in the race to pump a meme coin named after one of the leading candidates.

What’s left of the OpSec team appear to have been surprised by the resignation of its former CEO, Chris Williams.

An unverified leaked email suggests a Kalshi employee is spreading wash-trading allegations as Polymarket faces a DoJ probe.

The price of Solana (SOL) has jumped from $16 to $216 — a 1,250% increase — since it was delisted by Robinhood in June last year.

Since WBTC announced that Justin Sun would be involved in custody, several competitors have launched or taken advantage of the opportunity.

With bitcoin exceeding $93,000, rumors of nation-state buying are circulating feverishly. Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar are the top guesses.

The Block’s Asia Editor Timmy Shen was shortlisted for “Best Crypto Journalist” in the awards launched to celebrate female talent in crypto.

After avoiding a $DOGE pump and dump lawsuit, shirts of Musk’s newly minted Department of Government Efficiency are for sale on Trump’s site.

Donald Trump once threatened to fire Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. Crypto would love to see a pro-stimulus replacement.

Crypto learned today that the allegiance between Donald Trump and John Paulson will not lead to a new job at the US Treasury.

Protos used Federal Election Commission data compiled by OpenSecrets to help determine which states were the largest recipients of funds from these crypto industry-affiliated entities.

A crypto developer is pleading for help and offering a bounty worth millions after accidentally sending $25 million of Renzo tokens to the wrong Ethereum address.The dev sent 7,912 ezETH, a type of liquid restaking token worth over $3,400 apiece, to what is known as a Safe Module instead of a Safe. With funds now frozen, the developer is offering 10% — a $2.5 million reward — to anyone who can retrieve his funds.

Dogecoin’s market cap is over $58 billion at press time. According to Stock Analysis, this ranks it 181st out of 503 stocks in the S&P 500 — above 64%.It also places it above the Monster Beverage Corporation ($MNST at $54 billion), insurance behemoth The Allstate Corporation ($ALL at $52 billion), and energy giant American Electric Power ($AEP at $50 billion).

Bitcoin made the largest daily gain in its history, opening on Monday, November 11 at $80,427 and closing at $88,770 — a jump of $8,343.

Ethereum developer Paul Berg published a proposal that he says will improve user experience and make financial products easier to implement.

Although the price of bitcoin stole the show during Donald Trump’s re-election, its rally also lifted a number of other key metrics. Coinciding with an all-time high in price were bitcoin’s resurgence to all-time high futures transactions, spot ETF inflows, options volume, exchange trade volume, total circulating bitcoin, total value locked, and total hash rate.These are the eight metrics that took the Bitcoin network to an all-time high beyond its USD price.

Bitcoin is at a new ATH at $82K, and if you had invested your $3,200 in stimulus checks, you’d now have $18,000… You did, right?

DeFi application Delta Prime, which operates on the Arbitrum and Avalanche networks, suffered an estimated $4.5 million hack on Monday.

FTX says that Binance’s founder CZ intended to “destroy his rival” in a series of tweets right before FTX’s collapse.

Block, the Jack Dorsey-led firm behind Cash App, has announced that it is winding down TBD, its ‘Web5’ initiative.

Robert Powell is accused of stealing $400M in crypto from FTX but would like to attend his girlfriend’s sister’s party at Chuck E. Cheese.

When Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is released by Donald Trump next year, he will likely leave prison with a few thousand dollars.

Changpeng Zhao, aka CZ, was one of crypto’s biggest beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris.

In a filing from November 6, Crypto.​com operator Foris DAX MT is accused of providing financial services in Poland without authorization.

Incoming President Donald Trump has promised to purge the SEC of Gary Gensler on “day one.” Here are a half dozen candidates to replace him.

Throughout his campaign, Trump has made a number of promises to the crypto industry, including a “strategic bitcoin stockpile.”

Although bitcoin stole the show amid Donald Trump’s election, the unchanged price of USDT hid its own, equally significant victory.

Prediction market Polymarket was the election bellwether for many in the crypto community despite it often contradicting mainstream polls.