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The Week’s Posts
The Week in Videos ending January 28, 2024 – The Future of Ethereum & Bitcoin

Reports:
What is a CoinJoin and how do they work?

Fidelity Digital Assets: Understanding Proof-of-Work

This Week In Twitter

Headlines

Adoption, Implementation and Infrastructure
–12% of Salvadorans used Bitcoin for purchases in 2023: Survey

CBDCs (are just Surveillance Tokens)
*CBDC Tracker 1*
*CBDC Tracker 2*

COMMENTARY, GOSSIP and OPINION
–Global crypto user base surpasses half a billion in 2023 – Crypto.com report

COMPANIES & PROTOCOLS
–Swan Bitcoin questioned over unnamed investor and new trading fund
–Swan Bitcoin’s Mining Arm Comes Out of Stealth Mode, Adding to Its Institutional Division
–WSPN Forges Strategic Alliance with Fireblocks to Advance Digital Payments Ecosystem
–Ethereum devs expect 10x lower rollup costs as Dencun upgrade hits testnets
–Tether (USDT) Purchased 8.8K Bitcoin (BTC) at End of Q4
–Crypto lender Abra to return money in Texas settlement

CRIMES AND SCAMS
–Crypto lost in BNB Chain heists down by 85% in 2023: Report
–Crypto Crime Amounted to Over $24B in 2023: Chainalysis
–Trezor Warns of Phishing Campaign Following Potential Support Contact Leak

DEFI, CEFI, AND LENDING
**DeFi Scanner – check if a DeFi protocol is a scam**

Exchanges

Mining and Energy
*Live Mining Statistics*
*Bitcoin Mining Articles by Compass Mining*
–Struggling bitcoin miner Hut 8 links to penny stock ring
–Crypto miner CleanSpark mulls buying 160K Bitcoin miners by 2025
–Core Scientific Is Ready to Emerge from Bankruptcy and Re-list on Nasdaq by the End of January
–Stripe Is Deplatforming Users For Selling Bitcoin Hardware

Nation States (and other political jurisdictions)
*Nayib Bukele Portfolio Tracker*
–Argentine president to allow provinces to circulate own currencies

NFTs / Metaverse / Web3 / DAOs

Regulation, Legislation, Legal Matters & Taxation
–EU banking authority extends Anti-Money Laundering guidance to crypto

STABLECOINS

Taxation

Wall Street and Big Money
*BitcoinTreasuries*
*Bitcoin Worldwide (treasuries)*
–Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs Show Net Outflows as Buying at BlackRock’s IBIT and Others Slow
–9 spot Bitcoin ETFs buy 100K BTC in 7 days after launch
–JPMorgan Sees Significant Capital From Existing Crypto Products Pouring Into New Spot Bitcoin ETFs
–VanEck to delist Bitcoin Strategy ETF, citing performance and investor interest

Time Capsule
**Cryptography Mailing List Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper**

Outside News

You Do Not Change Bitcoin. Bitcoin Changes You.
“Bitcoin will eat the world.” And it is.

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Categories: Weekly Headlines

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