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BREAKING: Gary Gensler reports SEC X account ‘compromised’ — No spot Bitcoin ETF approval yet

The SEC continues to prove that it’s the biggest clown show on earth. 🤡

Late yesterday afternoon, the SEC’s official twitter account posted the following:

Everyone thought this was the moment we had all been waiting for.

But unfortunately shortly after the initial post, Gary Gensler informed us that the SEC’s twitter account had been hacked.

The ETFs were not approved (yet). 😢

Twitter on-chain analyst @therationalroot posted a chart breaking down the crazy price action that followed this fake announcement.

Checkout that god candle. (maybe a hint at what’s to come?)

Many didn’t believe that the SEC was “hacked”.

People started theorising that the SEC co-ordinated this “hack” to show how easily Bitcoin can be manipulated…

However, Twitter safety eventually confirmed that the SEC was indeed hacked.

The funny thing here is that they don’t have 2FA enabled…

Crypto twitter went ballistic off the back of this news.

Here are some of the highlights:

Regardless, tomorrow is the BIG day!

It’s happening. 😎

Are you as excited as we are?

Excitement surrounding the launch of the Bitcoin ETFs is at all time highs.

You can almost feel it in the air.

Hype is returning, prices are surging.

However, the ETFs have one major flaw.

Owning shares of an ETF or keeping your Bitcoin on exchanges means you don’t truly own your Bitcoin.

Not your keys, not your coins.

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$100 billion dollars of fresh capital is coming for Bitcoin by the end of 2024.

That’s the prediction out from analysts at Standard Chartered Bank.

Standard Chartered is a multinational bank headquartered in London.

They're currently valued at over $22 billion, with over 85,000 employees.

In a Digital Assets report released this week, their analysts made 2 predictions:

Here’s something even more insane.

As we’ve been covering, there’s been less and less Bitcoin being held on exchanges.

Bitcoin has been flowing into cold-storage & into the hands of long-term holders.

Right now, there is only ~2.06 million Bitcoin held by all exchanges.

At today’s prices, all exchanges combined hold ~$108 billion worth of Bitcoin.

This means, Standard Chartered is expecting capital inflows nearly equal to ALL of the Bitcoin currently held on exchanges.

This demand would have to push the Bitcoin price, much, much higher.

No one truly knows how much inflows we’ll see.

BUT if the analysts at Standard Chartered are correct…

We are in for a huuuge 2024 & 2025. 🚀

As we approach the approval of the Bitcoin ETFs, Ethereum’s value against Bitcoin continues to drop.

In fact, it hasn’t been this low since May 2021.

The ETH/BTC ratio is a simple way to gauge Ethereum’s performance relative to Bitcoin.

And unfortunately it isn’t looking good…

Here’s what this metric indicates:

The cool thing about this metric is that it goes beyond price performance. We can use it to understand the current market sentiment on the top two crypto assets.

Currently, the ETH-BTC ratio is 0.048, the lowest it’s been since May 2021.

And it's no secret that Bitcoin has dominated Ethereum over the last 12 months:

There's one HUGE reason why BTC has completely outperformed ETH by such a margin.

The ETFs...

There's just way to much hype surrounding them.

BUT, we're expecting the script to flip about halfway through 2024.

Don't forget, we have the Ethereum ETFs to look forward to.

(final deadline late May 2024 and BlackRock application means approval is almost certain)

Spot Bitcoin ETFs approval expected, start trading on Thursday: VanEck, Valkyrie execs. Speaking on CNBC’s ETF Edge on Jan. 9, VanEck’s CEO, Jan van Eck, said he expects the spot Bitcoin ETFs to start trading on Thursday, Jan. 11.

Lawyers, politicians call for investigation of SEC over Bitcoin ETF post. Politicians and securities lawyers said the SEC needs to be investigated over a false post on X stating the spot Bitcoin ETFs had been approved.

FOX Corp hopes to authenticate digital media with blockchain tech. The media conglomerate’s blockchain entity is letting news organizations prove ownership over their content.

Celsius creditors who withdrew 90 days before bankruptcy are asked to send money back. Celsius creditors who withdrew over $100,000 from Celsius in the three months before bankruptcy will have to return part of the funds.

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