Yesterday, January 14th, Bitcoin crossed the $20,000 price mark for the first time since the downfall of FTX around two months ago.

Increased whale activity since the commencement of the new trading year has led to a 26% growth in the price of Bitcoin [BTC], as per a 14 January tweet from Santiment.

The Miss Universe 2023 contest had various show-stopper moments during its National Costume Competition today. 

Classroom adoption of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency courses continue to skyrocket, with Texas A&M now being the latest U.S. College to offer a Bitcoin course to some of its 74,000+ students.

I found more reasons why, in my eyes, Bitcoin is such an unattractive asset.

Bitcoin’s price is suddenly shooting up like a rocket for one obvious reason: Market Manipulation.

PlanB, a popular quantitative analyst, has recently doubled down on his prediction that Bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, could see a meteoric rise in the upcoming bull market.

On Saturday (14 January 2022), Robert Kiyosaki, the highly successful author of the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” series of personal finance books, commented on Bitcoin’s latest price action.

Bitcoin briefly surpassed $21,000 on Jan. 13 for the first time since the FTX saga started in early November. After a slight retracement early on Saturday morning, BTC is priced at $20,800 as of press time.

According to data by CoinGlass, short traders suffered around $457 million across major centralized exchanges over the past day. Crypto exchange OKX took the lion’s share of these liquidations at over $241 million, followed by Binance at $116 million.