El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele Down Nearly 8% on Bitcoin Investment
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, who was a strong supporter of Bitcoin during the 2021 bull market, announced last year that the country would add one Bitcoin a day to its balance sheet. However, he has faced criticism for being reckless with the investment. According to NayibTracker, which tracks his Bitcoin purchases, Bukele is down nearly 8% on his investment of 3,120 BTC. Despite this, Bukele has been successful in improving security in the country and attracting foreign investment.
A Bitcoin user paid $3.1 million in fees on a transaction, setting a record for the highest fee ever on the Bitcoin blockchain.
On November 23, 2023 at 9:59 AM UTC, a Bitcoin user accidentally paid a high fee of 85.216 BTC (approximately $3.19 million) in a transaction. This mistake occurred in block 818,087 mined by AntPool.
Bitcoin retreats below $37,000, 24-hour gain narrows to 1.1%
According to OKX market data on November 23, Bitcoin fell below $37,000 and is currently priced at $36,992, with a 24-hour gain narrowed to 1.1%.
BTC options contracts with a notional value of $4.04 billion and ETH options contracts with a nominal value of $2.48 billion are about to expire
Deribit option data: BTC put/call ratio is 0.82, with a maximum pain point of $33,000 and a nominal value of $4.04 billion. ETH put/call ratio is 0.71, with a maximum pain point of $1,700 and a nominal value of $2.48 billion. The options will expire at 8 am UTC tomorrow.
A single transaction occurred on the Bitcoin network with a fee of 83 BTC, equivalent to approximately US$3.15 million.
On November 23rd, Whale Alert detected a single transaction on the Bitcoin network with a fee of 83 BTC, equivalent to $3.15 million.
Du Jun: If the DA layer of the sovereign Rollups L2 expansion plan is Bitcoin, the transaction confirmation time "will have to wait for more than 5 minutes."
Du Jun, CEO and executive director of New Fire Technology, posted on social media that for Layer2 expansion plans similar to Sovereign Rollups, if the DA layer is Bitcoin, it takes more than 5 minutes from transaction initiation to DA layer confirmation. This is unacceptable for transactions and businesses that are sensitive to transaction delays, such as those using real-time data such as coin prices. Therefore, even if Sovereign Rollups achieves the separation of DA and Settlement, there are still many limitations in business scalability and universality.
The proportion of BTC circulating supply that has not been active on the chain for at least one year reached 70.35%, a record high
According to blockchain analysis company Glassnode, the proportion of Bitcoin circulation supply that has not been active on-chain for at least a year has reached a record high of 70.35%, surpassing the previous peak of 69.35% in July.
After CZ resigned, the Bitcoin wallet balance on Binance exchange did not fluctuate significantly, with only a decrease of 1117.04 BTC in the past 24 hours.
More than $1 billion of funds had flowed out of the exchange since Nansen disclosed that he had resigned as CEO of Binance. However, according to the latest data from Coinglass, the balance of Bitcoin wallets on Binance exchange has not fluctuated significantly. In the past 24 hours, the balance of Bitcoin wallets on Binance exchange has only decreased by 1,117.04 BTC, and the current wallet balance is 515,434.78 BTC, which is still the largest among cryptocurrency exchanges.
An unknown address transferred 816 BTC to Gemini, worth US$30.52 million.
According to Whale Alert monitoring, an unknown address transferred 816 BTC worth $30.52 million to Gemini.
Brazilian crypto-friendly bank Nubank adds five new altcoins to app
Brazilian neobank Nubank has added trading functionality for five additional altcoins within its banking application. As reported by Brazilian media outlet Livecoins, the bank added support for Polkadot (DOT), Avalanche (AVAX), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Arbitrum (ARB), and Optimism (OP) on November 22. The bank launched cryptocurrency trading functionality on its banking application in May 2022, providing access to Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) for its banking customers.
Bitcoin developer Rijndael joins Taproot Wizards as CTO
Bitcoin developer Rijndael (@rot13maxi) announced that he will join the Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards as CTO. Rijndael has focused on distributed systems, infrastructure, and applied cryptography for the past 15 years and has served as the technical lead for Amazon's NFT project. In recent years, he has turned to the Bitcoin field and focused on developing self-custody tools for Bitkey (a new Bitcoin wallet launched by Block).
Transfer 1,000 BTC to Coinbase
According to Whale Alert monitoring, 1000 BTC (about $36,618,213) has been transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase.
Bitcoin developer monitoring found six OFAC sanctioned transactions that may have been filtered by F2Pool
On November 22nd, Bitcoin developer 0xB10C posted an article stating that six Bitcoin transactions from OFAC-sanctioned addresses were not mined by some mining pools, which may indicate intentional filtering. In September and October 2023, the tool found missing OFAC-sanctioned transactions in six blocks mined by ViaBTC, Foundry USA pool, and F2Pool.<br>After investigation, 0xB10C believes that the missing transactions in ViaBTC and Foundry USA pool may be due to misreporting rather than filtering. However, the missing transactions in four blocks of F2Pool are likely to have been intentionally filtered. These transactions are large transactions that merge multiple inputs into a single output, with at least one input coming from an OFAC-sanctioned address.
'Smart Whale' Sells 636 Bitcoin Worth $23,460,000 As Rumors of US Government Enforcement Actions Swirl
An unknown Bitcoin address sold off their entire stack of 636 BTC worth $23.46 million before reports of new enforcement actions against players in the industry by the US government. On the same day, the SEC charged crypto exchange Kraken with operating an unregistered platform and mishandling customer funds, while reports circulated that the Justice Department and Binance are coming to a potential $4 billion settlement. Lookonchain speculated that institutional investors were accumulating LDO, the native token for liquid staking platform Lido, as two wallets associated with institutional crypto service companies FalconX and Amber withdrew LDO tokens from Binance on multiple occasions.
BTC fell below 37,000 USDT again, with a 24-hour drop of 1.93%
BTC has once again fallen below 37,000 USDT, now reporting 36,952 USDT, a 24-hour drop of 1.93%.
A giant whale sold off all its Bitcoin holdings before the U.S. Department of Justice announced major enforcement actions
According to Lookonchain monitoring, before the US Department of Justice announced a major encryption enforcement action, a whale sold all 636 BTC (about $23.46 million). The whale address had previously earned over $40 million through buying low and selling high in BTC.
Bitcoin drops below $37,000
According to OKX market data on November 21st, Bitcoin fell below $37,000 and is now priced at $36,992.54, with a 24-hour decline of 0.27%.
650 BTC transferred from unknown wallet to Binance
According to Whale Alert monitoring, 650 BTC (approximately $24,294,303) was transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance.
Over $100M Worth of BTC Moved to Coinbase
According to data monitored by Whale Alert, at 12:01 pm Beijing time today, 2,712 BTC (worth about $101,661,213) were transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase.
Bitcoin briefly fell below $37,000
According to OKX market information, on November 20th, Bitcoin briefly fell below $37,000 and is now priced at $36,901, with a 24-hour increase of 1.31%.
