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📊 CryptoQuant notes a strongest inflow of USDT and USDC (ERC20) to exchanges — the last time such a large inflow was observed was before the powerful BTC rally in November 2024.

🐹 Did Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino bury BTC? On November 14, he wrote "Bitcoin black friday" — a similar phrase was posted by Paolo on November 26, 2021, at the very beginning of the global downtrend for BTC.

💰 Bitcoin is currently trading around the level where short-term holders break even — CryptoQuant. If the price confidently falls below $94,000, this could be a real signal of a bearish trend. But until that happens, everything looks like a normal correction within a growing market.

💎 After 13 years, the ancient hodler Casascius "woke up" and transferred 2 BTC (1, 2) to Coinbase. This is about extremely rare physical Bitcoin coins with a private key under a hologram — such coins are almost no longer in circulation, so every movement of them looks like an event from a crypto history museum showcase.

💰 Tether plans to invest 1 billion euros in the startup Neura in the field of AI robotics.

🇦🇪 The UAE Sovereign Fund has increased its position in Bitcoin ETF by about 230% since June, bringing ownership to 7.9 million fund shares worth approximately $517,000,000.

🪙 17 years ago on this day, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote in an email newsletter:

The Bitcoin system turns out to be socially useful and valuable, so node operators will feel that they are making a useful contribution to the world with their efforts (similar to various projects where people voluntarily provide their computing resources for good causes). In this case, it seems to me that simple altruism may be enough for the network to function properly. This is very attractive from a libertarian point of view if we can explain it correctly. Although I am better friends with code than with words. Satoshi Nakamoto

👻 Going for $90,000?

💰 Michael Saylor's Strategy company has transferred a lot of coins to unknown wallets in the last 2 hours.

🇪🇺 The European Union transfers control over crypto exchanges from the national to the pan-European level — a single regulator, ESMA, will issue licenses and directly oversee all crypto companies. The draft of the new rules will be presented next month.

🇧🇾 Cryptocurrencies serve as a suitable way to get rid of dollar dependence, despite their volatility — Lukashenko.

🚬 On X (Twitter), posts are gaining popularity where users try to "decode" Changpeng Zhao's posts, seeing hints of the BTC movement in them. When BTC fell to $84,000 in March, CZ wrote that he was working on a draft of a book with 114,000 words — about a month later Bitcoin rose, broke the $114,000 mark, and reached new highs. On November 8, at a price of about $103,000, he mentioned 97,000 words and 300 pages. After that, BTC fell to $96,000, then rolled back to $97,000, and Zhao added: "Every bottom someone takes for the end of the world. But time goes on." Now users are guessing if there is a hidden meaning in his posts — and especially trying to understand what the number 300 means 🚜

📈 Wintermute released a report noting: the correlation between BTC and the Nasdaq-100 index remains very strong — about 0.8. But despite this "friendship" Bitcoin does not take advantage of the stock market, it moves in sync with it mainly when things are going badly. Analysts also emphasized that such negative asymmetry — when the asset reacts negatively but is slow to rejoice with the market — historically appears more often not at the peaks, but closer to the bottom. And a second bottom as a gift?

😭 A user on the HTX exchange had a long position liquidated for $44,300,000 with a single order in the BTC/USDT pair.

🪒 In the last hour, the volume of long liquidations in the crypto market exceeded $300,000,000. Bitcoin dropped below $97,000.

💰 Bitcoin is again below $100,000.

🔮 The financial giant JPMorgan called the $94,000 level a key support for BTC — meanwhile, analysts maintain the forecast that in the next 6–12 months the leading cryptocurrency could grow to about $170,000. Essentially, JPMorgan sees room for continued growth and considers the current fluctuations part of normal market movement.

💸 Elon Musk announced the upcoming launch of the payment service X Money.

💰 In the USA, trading has started for the first spot XRP ETF from Canary Capital, ticker XRPC.

💎 Grayscale Investments has filed for an IPO.