I’m afraid that some times you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you! (weekly crypto updates) | by Mihalache Catalin (aspiring polymath) | Coinmonks | Jan, 2025

What happened in crypto the past week? Bitcoin is relatively quiet, while the Ethereum foundation is shaken to its core (you see what I did here?). Solana went up with Trump. SEC is playing its cards. What else? Read below:Bitcoin: Larry Fink, BlackRock’s CEO, predicted something like $700K for 1 BTC. Well, once before, he also called Bitcoin an index of money laundering, so, it is not that he knows much about it. Better researchers like Markus Thielen were talking about precise patterns of 18K jumps, so the next logical target would be $122K. This week BTC briefly reached $109.5K. MicroStrategy continues buying BTC, another 110K BTC for $1.1B. Meanwhile, China quietly sold 194K BTC, worth $19.7B, through exchanges like Huobi (the PlusToken ponzi scheme stash from the 2019 crackdown). Nasdaq proposed a rule change to allow in-kind redemptions of BlackRock’s Spot BTC ETF, but not for retail investors. Until now you could get cash, but not BTC.​Ethereum: ETH was down 0.88%, unlike BTC, which was up 3.40%. After the Ethereum Foundation shake-up, leadership changes aim to bolster technical expertise and ecosystem support. They faced criticism for…