Links:

• Twitter flags Squid Game token accounts as price crashes
• Huobi trials NFT marketplace to further GameFi and metaverse strategy

Links:

• SEC rolls decisions on four bitcoin ETF applications to end of 2021
• Fed to Launch CBDC Review as Early as This Week: Report — CoinDesk
• Colin McRae’s long-lost rally car reportedly sold for Bitcoin at auction

Bitcoin is up 1% at $41,041
Ethereum is up 1% at $2,787
and Binance Coin is up .5% at $335

Alchemy pay up 165%
ICP up 18%
Ravencoin up 16%

Messari closes a $21M series-A.

Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller expresses doubt about the benefits of a CBDC.

Nascar partners with the team behind Zed Run.

Binance to discontinue Hong Kong derivatives trading and move to proactive compliance.

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• Fed's Waller says he is skeptical a central bank digital currency would improve U.S. payments | Reuters
• Restricting of Derivatives Products Offerings in Hong Kong | Binance Support
• NASCAR links partnership with the startup behind a blockchain-based digital horse racing game
• Steve Cohen's Point72 makes first crypto venture investment, leads Messari's $21M raise

Bitcoin is up .5% at $41,690
Ethereum is up 1% at $2,599
and Binance Coin is up 1% at $341

Quant Network up 27%
SiaCoin up 19%
The Graph up 15%

Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said the US has to have a digital dollar

Goldentree asset management may have been adding undisclosed bitcoin to its balance sheet.

Livepeer raises $20M to take on video streaming platform giants.

The US Marshals pick anchorage digital for custody.

Luxor technologies launched an index for crypto mining stocks.

Links:

• Decentralized Video Protocol Livepeer Raises $20M to Take On Streaming Giants - CoinDesk
• US Marshals Choose Anchorage Digital to Custody, Service Seized Digital Assets | by Anchorage Digital | Anchorage Digital | Jul, 2021 | Medium
• Bitcoin Mining Stocks | HashrateIndex
• GoldenTree, $45b Asset Manager, Is Buying Bitcoin - The Street Crypto: Bitcoin and cryptocurrency news, advice, analysis and more
• UPDATE 1-Fed's Brainard: Can't wrap head around not having U.S. central bank digital currency

Bitcoin is up 1% at $51,200
Ethereum is up 1% at $1611
and Binance Coin is down slightly at 247

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Fantom up 30%
Icon up 16%
and Matic Network up 16%

Microstrategy adds to their hoard trading an additional 19,452 Bitcoins for $1.02B in cash.

Coinbase reveals that it holds Bitcoin, and other cryptos on its balance sheet.

The Federal Reserve will turn to the public to see appetite for a digital dollar beginning this year.

MoneyGram suspended the use of Ripple’s platform for the duration of the SEC lawsuit

Links:

• Coinbase offers corporations a trusted solution for adding crypto to their corporate treasury | by Coinbase | Feb, 2021 | The Coinbase Blog
• MicroStrategy Acquires Additional 19,452 Bitcoins for $1.026 Billion
• Powell says the Fed will engage the public on a digital dollar this year
• MoneyGram says it has 'suspended' use of Ripple's platform amid SEC lawsuit

Bitcoin is down 1% at $31,232
Ethereum is up slightly at $1310
and Polkadot is down 1% at $17.08

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Dogecoin up 49%
Elrond up 27%
Cosmos up 16%

GME Frenzy highlights centralization in status quo.

The Federal Reserve keeps things loose.

BIS' Agustín Carstens is not a fan of bitcoin.

Blockstream picks up $25M worth of mining rigs from MicroBT.

Links:

• Blockstream Purchase $25M of Bitcoin Mining Hardware from MicroBT
• Wall Street, Big Tech Clamp Down on GameStop-Style Pumps; Biden Admin 'Monitoring' Situation - CoinDesk
• BIS Chief Blasts Bitcoin's Viability, Prompting Blowback From Advocates - CoinDesk
• Fed Holds Policy Steady as Economy Stumbles - WSJ

Max Raskin: No to US Fed CBDC

VeChain, MasterCard and Alipay Back APAC Provenance Council

Devs at Ghost Foil Mining Hack

Links:

• VeChain, Mastercard and Alipay Join Australia-China Supply Chain Consortium
• Devs at Blogging Platform Ghost Take Down Crypto-Mining Malware Attack
• Digital Dollars Give the State Too Much Control Over Money - CoinDesk

Full Zimbabwe?

Links:

• Bitcoin, Gold Spike as Fed Unveils Unlimited Coronavirus Stimulus Package - CoinDesk
• Bitcoin Price Eyeing $7,000 After Fed Says it Has ‘Infinite Cash’

Bitcoin is up 8% at $7,217
XRP is up 4%% at 19 cents
and Ethereum up 4% at $127

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Stratis , up 21%
Horizon up 16%
Library credits up 15%

Federal reserve governor Lael Brainard feels that the Facebook-led Libra project has a “core set of legal and regulatory challenges” ahead.

BitGo is sounding the alarm for its Bitcoin SV customers.

The SEC is proposing a long over-due update in their accredited investor process.

US authorities have arrested and formally charged a 19 year old from Brooklyn over a sim-swapping identity and crypto theft.

Links:

• US authorities arrest alleged SIM swapper for stealing $1M in crypto - The Block
• SEC proposes wider definition of 'accredited investor' to expand market access - The Block
• BitGo Warns Users to Withdraw Bitcoin SV Over Hard Fork Threat to Wallets - CoinDesk
• Libra Lacks Clarity on 'Opaque' Currency Basket, Says Fed Reserve Governor - CoinDesk