The Bitcoin Minimalist Week 18 - Binance Solvency, Japan Mining, FTX Updates

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Binance Bank Run

Over the past week, Binance has seen many withdrawals, pointing to concerns about insolvency. The CEO has stated he welcomes people's withdrawals while Justin Sun postures, saying, “I just deposited 100 million USD”. Meanwhile, Jim Cramer also posts his confidence in Binance, sparking more concern.

Dylan LeClair 🟠 @DylanLeClair_

Largest 24h flow of $BTC out of Binance ever: -39,637 BTC

Japan’s Largest Power Company Starts Mining

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is starting to mine Bitcoin with 1.5MW as a testing facility. The testing facility is near its office in Tokyo, downtown on campus. Namcios covers more here.

SBF FTX Updates

• Business Insider never released video of Jack Mallers

• Members of FTX inner circle had a signal group chat called “wire fraud.”

• Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas days before trial to testify

• FTX funded The Block CEO to become the majority shareholder

Breez Raises Capital

A self-custodial lightning company called Breez just raised 4.5M “to accelerate “Lightning-as-a-Service” (LaaS). They posted a breakdown thread here.

Breez @Breez_Tech

Today, we're thrilled to share that we just raised $4.5M round to accelerate Lightning as a Service (LaaS). Laas is our visionary new approach to bringing virtually instantaneous and frictionless #bitcoin payments to the global mainstream 🔥⚡ 🧵(1/6)> bitcoinmagazine.com/business/breez…

bitcoinmagazine.comBreez Raises $4.5 Million In Fundraising RoundThe funding will help accelerate Breez’s mission of using Lightning to empower developers and users to realize new use cases for Bitcoin.

Price

Even with concerns of more exchange insolvency, Bitcoin’s price rose this week from $17,650 to over $18,000. Yesterday the CPI print came out at 7.1%, numbers not seen since earlier this year when the CPI began its climb. This might also be a factor in bitcoin’s rise.

Bitbo.io

Halving progress has hit 65%, historically showing the bottom of the bear market. This may not be the last time Bitcoin sees $18k, but it could mean the beginning of the end of the 2022 bear cycle.

Tweets

Satoshi Disappeared 12 Years Ago

Documenting Bitcoin 📄 @DocumentingBTC

Satoshi Nakamoto's last post, 12 years ago today. The creator of #bitcoin soon disappeared, and the network kept growing. No person, no corporation, and no government was in control. The decentralized network was born! A historic moment for #bitcoin and humanity!

Bitcoin Hash Rate by Year

Ant ⏳️⛓️ @2140data

#Bitcoin Hash Rate (5 January) 2009: 948 KH/s 2010: 10 MH/s 2011: 125 GH/s 2012: 9 TH/s 2013: 22 TH/s 2014: 14 PH/s 2015: 304 PH/s 2016: 825 PH/s 2017: 2 EH/s 2018: 16 EH/s 2019: 42 EH/s 2020: 107 EH/s 2021: 151 EH/s 2022: 174 EH/s 2023: ??? (257 EH/s today)

SEC Chair is Ready to Take Action on Securities

Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine

JUST IN - SEC Chair: We Are ‘Ready to Take Action’ Against Other Crypto Companies Violating U.S. Securities Laws

Elizabeth Warren Introduces Bill

Rob W. @BikesandBitcoin

#Bitcoin Miners and Nodes to now become "money service businesses." @SenWarren, wants you to live in a financial panopticon. Time to find out of the so called #Bitcoin Progressives have any teeth.

Jobs

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