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💥 $200M worth of long positions were liquidated across crypto exchanges within one hour, mostly in BTC and ETH. Bitcoin is trading at its lowest levels since the beginning of December, dropping about 3% within an hour after the U.S. trading session opened. Ethereum has fallen back below $3,000. Liquidations occur when a leveraged position moves so far into loss that the trader’s collateral can no longer cover it, forcing the exchange to close the position.

📉 Altcoin Season Index Falls to July Lows The canonical Altcoin Season Index from Blockchain Center has been ranging between 31–35 points since the end of last week. This is the lowest level since July and less than half of the threshold value of 75, which marks a so-called altcoin season—when most major tokens outperform Bitcoin. On September 11, the index reached 78 , its highest level since December 2024. According to the service’s methodology, an altcoin season is confirmed when at least 75% of the top 50 coins (excluding stablecoins and derivative tokens) outperform BTC in terms of returns over the past 90 days. This condition is currently not being met. A similar index from CoinMarketCap has fallen even further, down to 19 points. Among the tokens with the weakest performance over the past 90 days are PUMP, ENA, WLD, PEPE, and CRO.

🐳 Strategy acquired 10,645 BTC for $980.3 million at a price of approximately $92,098 per bitcoin

Cryptocurrency prices: 🥇 Bitcoin (BTC): $89,694 🥈 Ethereum (ETH): $3,153 🐬 XRP (XRP): $1.99 🥉 BNB (BNB): $888 🌚 Solana (SOL): $132 ▫️Total crypto market cap: $3.25 trillion ▫️Bitcoin dominance: 55.09% ▫️Fear & Greed Index: 16 (“extreme fear”) 📈 Top gainer among the top-100 cryptocurrencies by market cap over the past 24 hours: MYX Finance (MYX) +10%. 📉 Biggest loser over the past 24 hours: Aerodrome Finance (AERO) −5.5%.

🇺🇸In particular, the bulletin describes the risks of storing coins on centralized platforms and explains how cold wallets work. If investors choose a third party, they should understand the service provider’s custody policy. The regulator also separately reminded users of the importance of securely storing their seed phrase. The crypto community believes that the publication of educational material about wallets by the SEC reflects a new direction for the agency. “The same agency that spent years trying to destroy the crypto industry is now teaching people how to use it,” representatives of the organization Truth For the Commoner noted.

👀 Large Bitcoin holders selling covered call options are putting significant pressure on the asset’s price, according to analyst Jeff Park. In this situation, market makers are forced to hedge their risks when buying by selling on the spot market. Since the coins used as collateral for these options were held for a long time, they do not represent new demand or new liquidity. “When you already have a stockpile of Bitcoin that you’ve held for over 10 years and you sell call options against it, only the selling of the calls adds new delta to the market — and it’s negative — you are a net seller of delta when you sell calls,” Park explained.

🤙 Strategy was not delisted from the Nasdaq 100 index MSCI will decide in January whether to exclude Strategy and similar companies.

📊 Crypto market update: Bitcoin (BTC): $90,200 Ethereum (ETH): $3,113 Solana (SOL): $133 Market cap: $3.2T Fear & Greed Index: 21 (“Extreme fear”) Altseason Index: 20

💵Stablecoin giant Tether makes $1B bid to buy Juventus FC Tether says it will buy the controlling stake Exor has in Juventus, along with all remaining shares, an offer Exor has reportedly rebuffed. Crypto stablecoin issuer Tether says it has launched a bid to fully acquire the Italian professional soccer club, Juventus Football Club, which has reportedly already been shot down. Tether said on Friday that it submitted a binding all-cash proposal to Exor, the holding company of the Agnelli family, for its 65.4% controlling stake in Juventus that it has held for over 100 years. If Exor agrees, then Tether will make a “public offer for the remaining shares at the same price.” Juventus is a public company with a market capitalization of 944.49 million euros ($1.1 billion), having closed trading on Friday up 2.3% to 2.23 euros ($2.62). However, AFP reported that Tether’s bid has already been rebuffed, with a source close to Exor saying that “Juventus is not for sale.” Exor and Tether did not immediately respond to Cointelegraph’s request for comment.

🔍 Bitmine acquired another 14,959 #ETH ($46 million).

📊Crypto prices BTC ≈$90,300 (-2.54%) ETH ≈$3,090 (-5.37%) SOL ≈$130 (-5.03%) Market cap ≈$3.1T (-2.32%) Fear & Greed Index: 23 (Extreme fear) Altseason Index: 18

🙊 Senior Vanguard analyst: I find it hard to view BTC as anything more than a digital equivalent of a Labubu toy. However, under certain circumstances in the future, BTC may have value beyond pure financial speculation.

💵Tether aims to raise up to $20B in investment, exploring share buybacks and tokenization Tether, the company behind the USDT stablecoin, is looking for ways to provide liquidity to investors following a stake sale. According to Bloomberg, the company plans to raise up to $20 billion. Sources cited by the agency mention potential options such as a share buyback or tokenization of shares. Bloomberg reports that these discussions come amid attempts by one shareholder to sell a stake at a discount to the company’s $500B valuation target. Investment materials for this sale valued Tether at $280B, significantly lower than the target. Bloomberg notes that Tether has not announced a timeline for a potential IPO, meaning investors could wait years for a traditional exit. Share buybacks are often used by companies to provide early investors and employees with liquidity without waiting for an IPO, as seen with Ripple and Revolut. For asset tokenization, Tether has its own Hadron platform, launched in November 2024.

💰 British company Satsuma, which develops a Bitcoin treasury, sold 579 BTC yesterday (around $54M) to repay a £78M loan (payment deadline is December 31). They were once called the "new MicroStrategy," but it didn’t happen.

💸 CoinGlass: Over $140M liquidated in the past hour

🔸 Pakistan will allow Binance to explore the possibility of "tokenization" of assets up to $2 billion.

🧾 Bitwise shows support for Strategy Earlier, MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International), a global index provider, proposed excluding from its indices starting in 2026 any companies that have more than 50% of their assets in crypto. This rule puts Strategy — the largest corporate holder of BTC — at risk. In its official statement, Bitwise said: “This is discrimination and a destruction of index neutrality. Strategy is not just a ‘Bitcoin fund’ but a leader of a new financial era. We believe in its success and demand that it remain in the indices.” Voting on this rule runs until January 15, 2026. Until then, the crypto industry will be fighting for its rights.

🕰 The creator of Bitcoin disappeared from the public eye exactly 15 years ago Exactly 15 years ago, on December 12, 2010, Bitcoin’s anonymous creator known as Satoshi Nakamoto stopped posting on the BitcoinTalk forum. This is the oldest and largest crypto forum, launched back in 2009. In his final post, Satoshi mentioned DoS vulnerabilities and code updates — and never returned to the forum again. For several months after that, Satoshi continued corresponding with some of the early developers working on Bitcoin’s open-source code. In his last known email to developer Gavin Andresen, he asked him “not to make a mystery figure out of him.” In another message to a different developer, he wrote that he had “moved on to other things” and that Bitcoin was “in good hands.” Around the same time, in April 2011, Andresen publicly stated that he was going to give a presentation about Bitcoin at the CIA headquarters for a conference on emerging technologies for the U.S. intelligence community. Some believe that Andresen’s invitation to the CIA may have influenced Satoshi’s decision to withdraw from public life entirely.

📊Bitcoin didn’t fall below $90,000 and even gained slightly. Altcoins are also mostly in the green. 📈 Top gainers in the last 24h (top-100): ZEC +12%, MYX +9%, M +8%. 📉 Decliners: SEI -6%, TEL -3%, ADA -2%. Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index: 29.

💳 YouTube now allows U.S. creators to receive payouts in stablecoins