Day: December 19, 2025

Taiwan weighs Bitcoin reserve role as MoJ holds 210 BTC in seizures

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Taiwan’s justice ministry holds seized BTC and stablecoins as lawmakers debate BTC as a reserve asset and regulators advance a strict stablecoin framework. Summary Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice controls 210.45 BTC and about NT$1.3b in seized crypto, mostly dollar-pegged stablecoins plus ETH, BNB, Tron and Livepeer.​ The disclosure fuels a political fight over treating Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset, with lawmaker Ko Ju-Chun urging its inclusion in national reserves.​ Taiwan’s central bank and FSC are pushing tighter stablecoin rules and a VASP law, with any local stablecoin launch unlikely…

$65K Bitcoin Bottom 2026, End Bull Cycle

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Bitcoin may have ended its historical four-year cycle, signaling an incoming year of downside, despite widespread analyst expectations for an extended cycle driven by regulatory tailwinds. Bitcoin’s (BTC) $125,000 all-time high on Oct. 6 may have signaled the top of the current four-year Bitcoin halving cycle, both in terms of “price and time,” according to Jurrien Timmer, the director of global macroeconomic research at asset management firm Fidelity. “While I remain a secular bull on Bitcoin, my concern is that Bitcoin may well have ended another 4-year cycle halving phase,”…

Historic: Brazil’s B3 Stock Exchange to Issue a Stablecoin Next Year

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The new stablecoin is designed to enhance liquidity across diverse market segments, encompassing both tokenized and traditional financial offerings. B3 authorities indicated that the tokenized product could potentially serve as an alternative to drex, Brazil’s CBDC, which has recently been scaled back in its initial implementation. Brazil’s Stock Exchange Prepared to Launch Own Stablecoin The […] Source

Tom Lee’s New Ethereum Price Prediction is INSANE

▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io Ethereum’s drop from $4,800 to $2,800 has been called a collapse — but Tom Lee and Howard Lutnick argue it’s something very different. In this conversation, they frame ETH’s volatility not as a failure but as the growing pains of a technology still in its early hyper-growth phase. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum remain tiny slices of global assets, and according to Lee, their real utility and adoption curve lie in the years ahead. Lutnick explains why ETH’s recent declines look more like…

Jump Trading Hit with $4B lawsuit Tied to Terra’s $50B Crash

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The administrator of Terraform Labs’ bankruptcy, Todd Snyder, has filed a lawsuit seeking $4 billion in damages from trading company Jump Trading and multiple executives. According to a Friday Wall Street Journal report, the lawsuit alleges that Jump Trading unlawfully profited from and contributed to the 2022 crash of Terra. Alongside the company, the suit is also aimed at its co-founder, William DiSomma, and the former president of the crypto trading department, Kanav Kariya. Terraform Labs and the Terra blockchain ecosystem collapsed in 2022 when its native algorithmic stablecoin, TerraUSD…

Bybit Returns to UK with Spot and P2P Exchange

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Bybit says it is returning to the United Kingdom after a two‑year pause with a new UK platform offering spot trading on 100 pairs and a peer‑to‑peer venue. The Dubai‑based exchange shut off local UK customers in late 2023 when the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) tougher financial promotion rules kicked in.  According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph, the service is being rolled out under a promotions arrangement approved by Archax, an FCA‑authorized firm, rather than via Bybit’s own registration or authorization in the UK. Tailored UK products “transparent”…

Shiba Inu Burn Rate Rockets 3,915,071% as Altcoins See Rebound

Key Notes On December 19, Shibburn data shows that the SHIB burn rate spiked by 3,915,071.74%. This led to the removal of 21,611,748 SHIB from the ecosystem. SHIB price is 1.5% down, failing to complement the mild supply shock. In an unexpected twist, Shiba Inu SHIB $0.000007 24h volatility: 2.0% Market cap: $4.35 B Vol. 24h: $220.65 M has recorded a massive spike in burn rate within the last 24 hours. According to Shibburn, the dedicated burn tracker for the memecoin, a 3915071.74% surge in SHIB burn rate has been…

The Next 8 Days Are Crucial

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Bitcoin’s options market has a new obsession: Christmas week. In a post Thursday, energy-sector managing partner David Eng argued the next eight days (December 19 through December 26) could define the near-term cycle for BTC, not because of a macro headline or some sudden ETF stampede, but because a large chunk of dealer gamma exposure is scheduled to roll off the board in two shots. At press time, bitcoin traded around $86,928, after swinging between roughly $84,461 and $89,230 intraday. Eng’s framing is blunt and very “options people”: the market…

Blockchain Fragmentation Is Costing Tokenized Assets Billions

Fragmentation across blockchain networks is already imposing a measurable economic cost on the tokenized asset market, with inefficiencies translating into up to $1.3 billion in annual value drag.  In a report sent to Cointelegraph, real-world asset (RWA) data provider RWA.io argued that while blockchains accelerated innovation, they also created walls that trap liquidity and prevent capital from moving freely across networks.  As a result, tokenized RWAs have increasingly behaved like disconnected markets rather than a single, unified financial system. The research found that identical or economically equivalent assets routinely trade…

Bitcoin ETFs Rebound With $457 Million Inflow as Ether Outflows Persist

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Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) snapped back into positive territory with a powerful inflow-led session, while ether ETFs extended their outflow streak. Solana and XRP continued to quietly attract capital, rounding out a mixed but active trading day. Ether Lags Despite Broader ETF Strength as Bitcoin Inflows Surge A shift in sentiment rippled through the crypto […] Original