"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
-Charles Dickens

Bitcoin: $43,996.05 | Dom: 42.1% | HR: 213.614 EH/s

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

U.S. CONGRESSMAN WARREN DAVIDSON INTRODUCES THE “KEEP YOUR COINS ACT”

BREAKING

• Bitcoin Hash Rate Balloons To Record High — Will Price Go Up As Well?
  
• Major Crypto Companies Announce Plan "TRUST" on Money Laundering, Privacy
• Coinbase Launches Crypto Remittance Pilot for Mexico

JUST IN

• Binance.US is under investigation from SEC over trading affiliates: Report
• Fireblocks acquires stablecoin payments platform First Digital
• Payments Giant Mastercard To Expand Its Consulting Arm With New Crypto Services
  
• Treasury official touts the 'flexibility' of bank charters for stablecoin issuers during Senate hearing
• Crypto: Uptake Driven by Confidence, not Age or Income
• Binance's Paysafe deal worries UK financial watchdog
• Chewing Gum Spy Received $100,000 in Crypto
• South Korean Crypto Exchange Chief Gets 22 Years in Prison For $1.7B Fraud
• Portugal slowly becoming a ‘haven’ for European Bitcoiners
• 61% of Luxembourg financial players to embark on crypto journey in 2022: PwC

• Australian Broker SelfWealth Taps BTC Markets to Offer Crypto in Country First

IF RUSSIA INVITES BITCOIN ADOPTION, THE GLOBAL ARMS RACE WILL BEGIN

MARKET WATCH

• Bitcoin dips before Fed rate hike cues amid warning over $9T balance sheet
• TA: Bitcoin Fails to Test $45K, Why Dips Could Be Attractive
  
• Bitcoin (BTC) Unsuccessful In Breaking Above $45,000 But Technical Indicators Still Bullish
• Bitcoin price circles $44K as analyst asks, ‘Who remains to sell here?’
• Avalanche Price Hits Weekly High As DeFi Activity Booms
• Decentraland (MANA) Up 10% as JP Morgan Enters The Metaverse

NOTABLE VOICES

• Ryan Reynolds: Hollywood star believes crypto is ‘emerging as a huge player’
• Josh Gottheimer: Democratic Rep - Stablecoin Issuers Don’t Have To Be Banks With 100% Reserves
• Mike Novogratz: You Can Be Bullish on Both Gold and Bitcoin
• Bill Miller: Billionaire Investor With ‘Very Big’ Bitcoin Position Says BTC Is Insurance Policy Against Economic Disaster
• Hester Peirce: BlockFi’s $100M Settlement Payment is Disproportionate
• Sen Sherrod Brown: Fed never did it: US Senate Banking head lashes out at Super Bowl crypto ads

ANALYST'S CORNER

• Morgan Stanley Says Ethereum Is Riskier And Less Decentralized Than Bitcoin
• CryptoBullet: This Bitcoin price fractal from 2018 could trap bulls, sink BTC price to $25K
• Tone Vays: Veteran Trader Expecting ‘Huge Move’ for Bitcoin (BTC) Once It Breaks $52K
• Altcoin Sherpa: Ethereum Needs More Time To Bottom Out, but One ETH Competitor Is Set for Rallies
• Kraken: Cardano To Dominate The Market As A Leading Layer 1 Blockchain, Onboarding The Next Billion Users In Crypto
• Traders say $4,000 Ethereum back on the cards ‘if’ this bullish chart pattern plays out
• InvestAnswers: Ethereum (ETH) Upside Far Outweighs Current Downside

MINING

• Norway’s KryptoVault Proves Bitcoin Mining Can be Sustainable

ETFs/FUNDs

• Here’s why the SEC keeps rejecting spot Bitcoin ETF applications
• Bulgaria Stock Exchange Lists Bitcoin and Ethereum ETNs (Report)

Podcast: How the multi-trillion-dollar wealth management industry is opening up to bitcoin

BLOCKCHAINS

• Binance Rebrands Its Blockchain in Overture to Decentralization

REGULATION/LEGISLATION

• SEC Demands Bitwise To Clarify Concerns Over Share Manipulation
• India’s Central Bank Likens Cryptocurrencies To Ponzi Schemes
• BIS-funded financial monitor wants more data to measure risks of Bitcoin

EXCHANGE

• Crypto Platform Voyager Keying in on Staking, NFTs in 2022

MINING

• Bitcoin (BTC) Versus Ethereum (ETH) Mining Revenue: Who Comes Out on Top?

WEB3

• Steve Aoki, DJ at Large, Earns More From NFTs Than From Music
• NYSE trademark application spotlights marketplace for NFTs
• VR Platform Cyber Teams With Rarible for Virtual NFT Marketplace
• PayPal to limit some NFT transactions for its merchant-focused Seller Protection program
• Art lovers can own part of an NFT of Gustav Klimt's 'The Kiss'
• Under Snoop Dogg’s Management, Death Row Records Will Be “An NFT Label”
• Another NFT marketplace, x2y2, begins vampire attack on OpenSea

FOLLOW DAT MONEY

• Ethereum wallet Rainbow raises $18 million in round led by Reddit co-founder's VC fund
• Crypto copy-trading protocol Housecat emerges from stealth with $3.5 million in funding
• Crypto Trading Platform Aurox Takes First $5MM Outside Money in Advance of Public Offering
• UK neobank Atom raises more than $100 million as it eyes an IPO
• Red Bull Racing scores $150M sponsorship with Bybit
• Castle Island Ventures announces new $250 million fund for web3 investments

• Blockchain Venture Firm Woodstock Raising $100M From US Investors

AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN SEVEN MILLION — UNLOCKING FINANCIAL FREEDOM THROUGH BITCOIN