Only one major ETF was trading at volumes slightly higher than the BTCetc ETP in the first 11 days of January, says the FT. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-etp-trading-at-levels-seen-by-top-european-etfs-ft

Malaysia’s Mobile Money and Bangladesh’s bKash will leverage RippleNet for wallet-to-wallet transactions. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/ripple-malaysia-bangladesh-remitance

Placed under provisional liquidation last month, Mirror Trading had claimed to be able to offer returns of 10% a month using bots to trade client’s bitcoin. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-liquidators-south-africa

There’s a new yield farm for those backing Ethereum 2.0. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/lido-protocol-does-eth-2-0-staking-but-with-a-defi-twist

Deltec, Tether’s Bahamas-based bank, announced Thursday it was investing customer funds in bitcoin. The announcement, made by Deltec Bank & Trust Chief Investment Officer Hugo Rogers during a year-in-review …

These new features don’t grab headlines every day, but the improvements they make to the Bitcoin network’s privacy, tooling and complex transaction logic are building a stronger foundation. Source: …

Terms of the investment were not disclosed. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/titan-mining-pool-coinbase-ventures-investment

Chainalysis declined to directly link the donation to the Jan. 6 storming but said the timing “warrants suspicion.” Source: https://www.coindesk.com/extremist-crypto-donations-chainalysis

The U.S. is going slow on central bank digital currencies (CDBCs) considering the risks they may pose to the dollar’s dominance, the Fed Chair said Thursday. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/jerome-powell-on-cbdcs-we-dont-feel-a-need-to-be-first

Sci-Hub, a pirate library of academic papers censored by Twitter, PayPal and domain systems, left the distributed domain platform Handshake after two days, unsatisfied by the level of decentralization. …