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Hackers unlock #Bitcoin wallet lost for 12 years worth over $3 million
Anonymous person known as "Michael" who owned ~43.6 BTC from 2013.
Forgot password generated by old RoboForm password manager.
Joe Grand (Kingpin) and Bruno reverse-engineered RoboForm's flawed random number generator.
Took months; succeeded and accessed the wallet in late 2023.
Grand and Bruno took a percentage when BTC was ~$38,000 per coin.
Michael gained access to the rest; later sold some when price reached ~$62,000.
~30 BTC left, valued around $3 million at the time of reporting (mid-2024).

⚠️ETHEREUM SACRIFICES $100M+ IN 2025
Ethereum gave up over $100 MILLION in guaranteed fee revenue in 2025, prioritizing scalability and long term ecosystem growth.
Since the Dencun upgrade, Layer-2s paid just $10M to mainnet while retaining $119M in revenue.

🚀ETF FLOWS REBOUND AS BITCOIN NEARS $500M IN INFLOWS
Spot ETFs saw a strong start to the year with spot Bitcoin ETFs pulling in $471M, while Ethereum ETFs added $174M in their biggest inflow since mid-December.
Solana spot ETFs also recorded $8.6M in net inflows

METAPLANET'S KILLER YEN ADVANTAGE🔥
Bitcoin's return is a LOT higher in the yen than the dollar, because Japan's currency weakened a lot more.
250% debt-to-GDP ratio for Japan - YIKES!
USD Bitcoin return since 2020: 1,159%
JPY Bitcoin return since 2020: 1,704%
MASSIVE difference!
In dollar terms BTC rose ~12.6×; in yen terms ~18.0×.
Cost of capital:
Metaplanet has a 4.9% fixed dividend on its MERCURY perpetual-preferred shares, paid in yen.
Strategy pays an average of around double that (~10%) in a much harder currency!
Every coupon Metaplanet pays is in a currency that has been losing value

Saylor Announces Another Bitcoin Buying
Orange or Green?

TRUMP IMPEACHMENT ODDS SPIKE ON KALSHI
Kalshi traders now puts the chance of Donald Trump facing impeachment at 55%, an all-time high.
Odds jumped following U.S. strikes on Venezuela.

The first block of transactions mined in the
Bitcoin blockchain by its anonymous
creator, includes the newspaper:
“The Times 03/Jan/2009
Chancellor on brink of
second bailout for banks”
This is a timestamp for the network’s start
and a hint about the reason for inventing it.

Shocking stat of the day:
Venezuela’s oil production is currently at just 30% of the levels seen 15 years ago.
We could easily see another 3 million barrels of oil hit the market per day.
That’s more than the daily consumption of all but 6 countries in the world.

THE FED INJECTS LIQUIDITY OVERNIGHT
The Fed injected $18.5 BILLION via repos and drained $5.7 BILLION via reverse repos, signaling short-term funding support.

BIG: Berkshire Hathaway now holds 31% of its assets in cash, the highest level in 20+ years.

LATEST: Tokenized stocks market cap just hit a new ATH at $1.2B.

XRP flips BNB to become the 3rd largest cryptocurrency in the world by market cap

China is outpacing the world in patent filings:
China now accounts for ~27% of global patent applications, the highest of any other country in the world.
This percentage has DOUBLED over the last 11 years.
Over the same period, the US' contribution has fallen -9 percentage points, to 20%, the lowest since at least the 1980s.
At the same time, Germany’s percentage has declined -3 points, to 6%, also the lowest since at least the 1980s.
Japan’s percentage has held steady at ~18%, the world’s 3rd-largest.
China is leading the global patent race.

BREAKING: The Fed’s balance sheet surged +$24.4 billion in the week ending December 24th, posting the biggest jump since the March 2023 Banking Crisis.
This marks the 3rd-consecutive weekly increase for a total of +$45.5 billion.
As a result, the Fed’s total assets are up to $6.58 trillion, the highest since the end of October.
The Fed is projected to buy $35-$55 billion in Treasury bills each month in 2026.
That would make ~$550 billion in total purchases this year, bringing the Fed’s balance sheet back above $7.0 trillion, the highest since October 2024.
The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet i

The Most Bullish Year in Bitcoin History Looked Like Nothing
400,000 BTC Disappeared in 2025. No One Noticed.
Wall Street spent 2025 asking the wrong question.
Bitcoin chopped sideways. Volatility died. The narrative became: Is the bull market over?
Meanwhile, Strategy by itself absorbed 225,000 BTC.
Not lost. Not sold. Absorbed.
The Illusion of Failure
Flat price looks like failure unless you're the one accumulating into it.
Strategy bought across 41 separate weeks in 2025. No fanfare. No momentum chasing. Just relentless absorption while everyone else got bored and looked away.
Their stack:

AVAX SURGED 11% AFTER GRAYSCALE'S ETF UPDATE
Avalanche jumped 11% after Grayscale updated its S-1 to convert the Avalanche Trust into a spot AVAX ETF.
Volume surged 140% to $546 MILLION.

JP MORGAN FOUND AN INFINITE MONEY GLITCH.
They’re manipulating silver like their lives depend on it.
They did it 5 years ago, and now they’re doing it again.
In the world of institutional trading, that is simply Cost of Doing Business (CODB).
The "Infinite money glitch" P&L:
– Gross Profit from Manipulation: ~$100 Billion
– Regulatory Fine: ~$1 Billion
– Net Profit: $99 Billion
– ROI: 9,900%.
If you could pay a 1% tax to legalize theft, you would do it every day and that’s exactly what JPM is doing.
The Technical Reality:
They operate under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA).
Translation:

⚠️WARNING: EVM WALLET DRAIN ALERT
Hundreds of wallets across EVM chains are being drained, per ZachXBT.
Attackers are stealing amounts under $2,000. Losses have topped $107,000 and are still rising.