CloverPool data shows that the difficulty of Bitcoin mining has been adjusted at block height 874,944 (2024-12-16 09:33:30), and the mining difficulty has reached a new historical high. The current average computing power of the entire network is 812.02 EH/s.

The statement and legal documents provided by Squirrel_Dad, the owner of the internet celebrity squirrel "Pnut the Squirrel", show that its legal team has officially sent a cease and desist letter to Binance, accusing Binance of unauthorized use of its intellectual property, including the images, trademarks and story content of "Peanut the Squirrel".

The U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board has previously officially approved fair value accounting rules for Bitcoin, which apply to fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024.

A new record high! BTC is now trading at $105,090.30 per coin, up 2.33% on the day.

PANews reported on December 16 that according to Arkham monitoring, at 6:51 am Beijing time today, the Trump family-related crypto project World Liberty spent 250,000 USDC to purchase 134,216 ONDO tokens through Cow Protocol.

PANews reported on December 15 that Token Unlocks data showed that ARB, APE, QAI and other tokens will usher in large-scale unlocking next week, among which: Arbitrum (ARB) will unlock about 92.65 million tokens at 9 pm Beijing time on December 16, which is 2.26% of the current circulation and worth about 91.4 million US dollars; ApeCoin (APE) will unlock about 15.6 million tokens at 8:30 pm Beijing time on December 17, which is 2.16% of the current circulation and worth about 24 million US dollars; QuantixAI (QAI) will unlock about 232,000 tokens at 8 am Beijing time on December 18, which is 5.16% of the current circulation and worth about 22 million US dollars; Cardano (ADA) will unlock about 18.53 million tokens at 8 am Beijing time on December 16, which is 0.05% of the current circulation and worth about 20.1 million US dollars; Pixels (PIXEL) will unlock about 54.38 million tokens at 6:00 p.m. Beijing time on December 19, which is 7.05% of the current circulation and worth about $12.1 million. Ethena (ENA) will unlock about 12.86 million tokens at 3:00 p.m. Beijing time on December 18, which is 0.44% of the current circulation and worth about $14.7 million. Echelon Prime (PRIME) will unlock about 750,000 tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on December 17, which is 1.46% of the current circulation and worth about $10.5 million. Eigenlayer (EIGEN) will unlock about 1.29 million tokens at 3:00 a.m. Beijing time on December 18, which is 0.61% of the current circulation and worth about $6.2 million. Fusionist (ACE) will unlock about 1.8 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on December 18, which is 4.26% of the current circulation and worth about $4.9 million. Catizen (CATI) will unlock approximately 9.9 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. on December 18th, Beijing time, accounting for 4.81% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$4.9 million; Hooked Protocol (HOOK) will unlock approximately 4.17 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. on December 20th, Beijing time, accounting for 1.97% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$2.3 million; OmniFlix Network (FLIX) will unlock approximately 15.31 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. on December 17th, Beijing time, accounting for 3.76% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$1.9 million; Mintlayer (ML) will unlock approximately 9.91 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. on December 16th, Beijing time, accounting for 5.90% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$1.5 million; Hatom (HTM) will unlock approximately 1.07 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. on December 19th, Beijing time, accounting for 2.39% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$1.3 million.

PANews reported on December 15 that swap traders reduced their bets on the Federal Reserve's path of easing policy after a series of mixed data was released this week. This week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.82%, the S&P 500 fell 0.64%, ending its three-week winning streak, and the Nasdaq rose 0.34%. Bitcoin has risen for seven consecutive weeks, the longest consecutive rise since 2021.

According to the monitoring of on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, the smart money with an 85% winning rate in the ETH band has withdrawn 375 billion PEPE from Binance in the past 14 hours, about 8.98 million US dollars, with an average price of 0.00002395 US dollars; he then distributed the tokens to 3 addresses, which also bought 152,000 US dollars of PEPE from the chain. That is, a total of 788.2 billion PEPEs were built, about 9.13 million US dollars, with an average price of 0.00002394 US dollars.

PANews reported on December 15 that according to Coingecko data, the floor price of the blue-chip NFT project "Fat Penguin" Pudgy Penguins rose to 29.13 ETH, with a 10.6% increase in the past 24 hours. As the floor price rises, the current market value of Pudgy Penguins has also exceeded the $1 billion mark, reaching 258,907 ETH, equivalent to approximately $1,006,727,499.

X platform shows that Musk re-followed CZ after replying to CZ's tweet. Yesterday, CZ posted a message saying that he was happy to contribute to the acquisition of Twitter, and retweeted the news that Binance invested $500 million in Musk's acquisition of Twitter. Musk responded to this.