"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."
-Napoleon Hill

Bitcoin: $42,458.58 | Dom: 42.5% | HR: 233.516 EH/s

Major Support: $42,800/42,500 | Major Resistance: $44,000/$45,500

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BREAKING

• Ripple Partners With Central Bank Digital Currency Think Tank
• With $100 million settlement confirmed, BlockFi aims to register Yield with SEC

JUST IN

• Jordanians Turn to Crypto Amidst Deep Unemployment Crisis
• Super Bowl Ads Spark Public Interest; Coinbase Site Crashes From Traffic
• Singaporean megabank DBS works on expanding Bitcoin trading to retail
• ASX Chief: More Crypto Businesses Could List on Exchange in Future
• Crypto miners exempt from IRS reporting rules, US Treasury affirms
• Cardano and Polkadot ETPs debut on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange today
• Are we misguided about Bitcoin mining's environmental impacts? Slush Pool's CMO Kristian Csepcsar explains
• Circle To Integrate USDC On Flow To Simplify Payments
• Coinbase, Ripple, and Robinhood Lead $9.5 Million Crypto Lobbying Efforts In The US
• Valliance Bank Partners With Bakkt to Enable Cryptocurrency Exposure
• Report: 74% of stolen funds from ransomware attacks went to Russian-affiliated wallet addresses in 2021

MARKET WATCH

• Bitcoin price consolidates in critical ‘make or break’ zone as bulls defend $42K
• Bitcoin bull trap? 3 indicators that predict BTC price falling to $24K–27K this year
• Bitcoin kisses 50-day moving average as trader predicts fresh BTC price volatility
• Bitcoin Exchange Reserves Crash to Three-Year Low: Details
• ‘Up only’ for BTC fundamentals — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
• Rallies on the Horizon for Bitcoin (BTC), XRP and Shiba Inu (SHIB): Coin Bureau
• TA: Ethereum Prints Bearish Technical Pattern, Why It Could Revisit $2.5K
• Ether investment products register first weekly inflows in 10 weeks
• Google Adds Cardano To Its Integrated Currency Conversion Rate System

ANALYST'S CORNER

• Benjamin Cowen: One Metric Shows How Much Bitcoin Has Outperformed Gold and Stock Market
• TechDev: Bitcoin Traders Shouldn’t Be Fooled by Geopolitical Doom Talk, According to Top Analyst – Here’s Why
• Jiang Zhuo'er: BTC.TOP CEO says There's No Deep Bear Market
• Michaël van de Poppe: Here’s What’s in Store for Bitcoin and Ethereum This Week
  
• Nicholas Merten: Technical Pattern Signaling That Bitcoin (BTC) Bulls in the Lead With Big Rallies Ahead
• Pentoshi: Analyst Issues Warning to Ethereum and Solana Traders, Unveils Bearish Targets for Top Crypto Assets
• Denny Galindo: Here’s Why Ethereum (ETH) Could Have a Larger Market Than Bitcoin (BTC), According to Morgan Stanley Analyst

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NOTABLE VOICES

• Brett Harrison: FTX U.S. president says Private crypto markets are thriving despite general equities slowdown
• Mark Cuban: Reveals Two of His Largest Altcoin Investments (ETH & MATIC), Says First Viral Crypto App Is Coming
  
• Kevin O'Leary: ‘Shark Tank’ Star on Platforms Powering Future Metaverses ($ETH, $MATIC, $HBAR)
• American HODL: The Metaverse is ‘Fake’ & ‘Does Not Exist’, Says Crypto Personalities
• Charles Hoskinson: Doubts Bitcoin Will Be World's Reserve Currency

• Elon Musk: Hints at Starlink Accepting Dogecoin

REGULATION/LEGISLATION

• Bitcoin Could Win from Federal Reserve's Closed Meeting
  
• Gary Gensler Says SEC Working With Crypto Exchanges To Adjust Rulesets and Promote Investor Protection
• Israeli securities regulator seeks ‘precise and clear laws’ to allure crypto firms
• UK Crypto Firm Chief Warns Country Could Fall Behind EU in Innovation and Licensure
• UK tax authority makes first NFT seizure in VAT fraud case

WEB3

• Highest-ever CryptoPunk sale nets $24 million
• Shiba Inu’s Metaverse Entry Proves Formidable In the Multi-Trillion Dollar Ecosystem
• Polygon and Cere network to launch Web3 media platform, DaVinci
• NFT Creator Animoca Launches $30M Program to Boost Play-to-Earn Guild Ecosystem
• Official: Victoria’s Secret forays into NFTs and metaverse with 4 blockchain-related trademark filings
• Ertha Metaverse Sells Rome NFT for Record $120k

FOLLOW DAT MONEY

• Salad Ventures Secures $13.5m in Funding to Build Gamefi Operating System Coined GuildOS

MINING

• Could Crypto Be the Answer to Texas’ Power Grid Issues?