Happy Thursday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:
🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨
- BlackRock clients buy $646.62 million in Bitcoin.
- Bitcoin briefly rises back above $97,000.
- 15% chance Bitcoin will hit $150,000 before June 2026, per traders on Kalshi.
- Rhode Island introduced a state income tax exemption bill for small-scale Bitcoin transactions.
- Germany’s second-largest bank DZ Bank gets approval for institutional Bitcoin and crypto trading.
- Binance founder CZ says Bitcoin reaching $200,000 "is the most obvious thing in the world" to him.
- Silver reaches new all-time high of $93.
- China marks record $1.2 trillion trade surplus in 2025 despite U.S. tariffs.
- U.S. exporters sell 334,000 tonnes of soybeans to China.
- U.S. November PPI rises to 3%, higher than expectations.
- Producer Prices in the US rose 4.7% per year over the last 5 years and over 26% in total.
- The US collected a record $267 billion in customs duties in 2025, more than 3x higher than what was collected in 2024.
- Elon Musk says Tesla Full Self-Driving will switch to a monthly subscription & remove the one-time purchase option.
- In the first 3 months of the 2026 Fiscal Year the Federal Government took in $1.2 trillion and spent $1.8 trillion.
- The Interest Expense on US National Debt rose to a record $1.27 trillion in the last 12 months, more than doubling over the past 4 years.
- Japan’s 30-year bond yield has spiked to 3.46% - the highest level on record.
- Russia says any U.S. attack on Iran would be categorically “unacceptable” and “the gravest mistake.
- Buying Greenland could cost as much as $700,000,000,000.
- President Trump demands NATO force Denmark to drive out Russians and Chinese from Greenland.
- SpaceX engineers working around the clock to bypass Starlink jamming by Iranian regime.
- Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says "it's time for the US to lead on crypto policy."
- Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says Coinbase "can't support" the crypto market structure legislation as currently written.
- US Senate Banking Committee says Bitcoin and crypto market structure legislation "marks a major step toward establishing the United States as the crypto capital of the world."
- Congressman French Hill on the Bitcoin and crypto market structure legislation markup: "We're moving closer toward having a law that President Trump can sign".
- Russia finalizes draft bill to legalize crypto trading.
- Fed Governor Stephen Miran says stablecoins reinforce the US Dollar.
📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊
- BlackRock clients buy $81.65 million in Ethereum.
- ETF clients buy $10.63 million worth of XRP, bringing total ETF-held net assets to $1.56 billion.
- Ripple secures EU Electronic Money Institution approval from CSSF.
- Ghost surges 65% following Zebec partnership announcement for private payments on Solana and strong privacy trend.
- Buttcoin price rallies 60% in the past 24 hours, allegedly linked to original 2011 Buttcoin meme creator.
- Zcash Foundation announces SEC has concluded its review and informed us that it does not intend to recommend any enforcement action or other changes against Zcash Foundation regarding this matter.
- Sui network down for over 2 hours.
- Solana says "Starknet has 8 daily active users, 10 daily transactions, and still somehow has a 1B MC and 15B FDV" - "send it straight to 0".
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Credit to the following X accounts for key insights & updates: @whaleinsider @bitcoinmagazine @watcherguru
@degeneratenews @charliebilello @economyapp @earnings_time
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