Data from Santiment reveals both Bitcoin and Ethereum currently lack the trading volumes to justify their market caps.

Mike Kondoudis, licensed trademark attorney at the USPTO, on Tuesday revealed that someone has filed a trademark for “Bitcoin Bank America” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The trademark is for crypto exchange services in the U.S.

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty fell 3.6% at 3:49 a.m. UTC on Jan. 3.

According to data acquired and calculated by Finbold, as of January 2, 2023, the number of Bitcoin millionaire addresses stood at 28,007, representing a drop of about 71.73% or 71,085 addresses from January 2, 2022. At the start of last year, the number of millionaire addresses stood at 99,092.

The Australian city of Coolangatta has got its first Bitcoin (BTC) ATM with integrated Lightning network capabilities. The new ATM has been installed at The Strand shopping center in Coolangatta and is now available for use by the public.

Michael Saylor, founder and former CEO of MicroStrategy, has highlighted the reason behind the sale of Bitcoin (BTC) initiated by the company towards the end of 2022.

There is little agreement among Bitcoin’s commentators over the last few weeks, with crypto execs, research analysts and billionaire investors offering wildly different takes on what's in store for Bitcoin for the year ahead. One crypto exchange founder expects Bitcoin to spike to $40,000 by the summer, while a Bitcoin billionaire has renewed his bullish $250,000 BTC price prediction for the year. (Cointelegraph)

Australia had a total of 225 Bitcoin ATMs by the end of 2022 after installing around 150 machines in the final four months of the year, overtaking El Salvador and Poland to become home to the fourth-highest number of crypto ATMs in the world, according to data from CoinATMRadar.com. The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the city-state’s central bank, issued new guidelines in January 2022 to restrict crypto businesses from promoting their services to the general public, leading crypto ATM operators to halt their services in the country. (forkast)

Elon Musk became the first person ever to lose $200 billion according to Bloomberg News, while Tesla lost $783 million to Bitcoin (BTC) volatility, which corresponds to 0.39% of Musk’s loss.

After an extraordinary 2021 for Bitcoin, and the cryptocurrency industry as a whole, 2022 will have been an important reminder to all those who thought Bitcoin was engaged in a supercycle.