Ross Ulbricht, freed by a Trump pardon, reunited with his family after years in prison.
"So much gratitude, love, and hope for what's to come."
Senator Cynthia Lummis is now the chair of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets.
President Trump is set to hold a call today with El Salvador’s pro-#Bitcoin President Nayib Bukele.
"If you abolish the Federal Reserve, what do you replace it with?"
Thomas Sowell: "When someone removes a cancer, what do you replace it with?"
Sen. Cynthia Lummis: “Wouldn’t it be fun if the US is buying #Bitcoin and it scares China and Russia so they start buying Bitcoin and we have an arms race over Bitcoin instead of over weapons."
Davos panel: "Trump has done something no one else has done. Trump has won, and we have lost."
Own your digital identity!
"They're going to issue you a digital identity. The government shouldn't issue your identity." -
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: "No matter how much we tax, how much we cut or reduce that debt, it will not be enough... This is why building new infrastructure is critical, especially through public-private partnerships."
WEF president Børge Brende: "We are meeting at one of the most uncertain geopolitical and geoeconomic moments in generations."
"Because we just came out of the hottest year on record and the possibility of another global health crisis is ever looming."
"Executive orders are not orders. If the Cabinet Secretary doesn't want to implement those things, guess what, doesn't get implemented." -
Tom Luongo
Will this Trump presidency be different?
UN chief António Guterres: Climate change threatens to "upend life as we know it."
"We just endured the hottest year and the hottest decade in history. Sea level rise, heat waves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires are just a preview of the horror movie to come."
Van Jones says people are buying #Bitcoin "as a prayer, a prayer for a better tomorrow, a hope that something will go good for them. That’s why they voted Republican."
Klaus Schwab: "We also have to face an erosion of trust in our society."
"This can only be achieved if we genuinely address the existential fears of so many. The fears of those who are afraid of accelerating environmental degradation."
Quick hits:
- Repo markets fueling #Bitcoin via credit, not asset sales. "Flow is what matters" -
@timevalueofbtc
- #Bitcoin near ATH, underperforming past halvings, signaling upside
- Ray Dalio owns $BTC
- Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht
Read more: https://tftc.io/repo-markets-and-bitcoin/
BlackRock makes its largest #Bitcoin purchase of the year—$600 million worth of $BTC.
Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez:
"I propose putting an end to anonymity on social media."
“That is why I believe we must push forward the principle of psuedonimity as the functioning element of social media and force all these platforms to link every user account to an European digital identity wallet.”
Is ESG officially dead?
"They are doubling, tripling down on ESG as we speak." - Matt Cole
Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve ballot papers are being circulated at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: "I was wrong about #Bitcoin. I look at it as digital gold."
Coinbase CEO: “#Bitcoin is a nice check and balance on deficit spending and inflation. If ever gets too out of hand, people will flee to bitcoin for safety.”