Dethronement, Maintenance, Breakup and 20 Crypto Jokes

This week saw BTC rally above USD 8K, while altcoins dropped, and BitPay CCO said that BTC will surpass USD 20K, but with a surprise. While more altcoins are expected to be integrated by mining pools, the ousted co-founder of Bitmain made a legal move to dethrone Jihan Wu. Telegram confirmed that its TON Wallet won’t be integrated with their messenger service, the head of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology at the WEF said that the collaboration in the blockchain industry will intensify, Japan’s Finance Minister warned the country’s bankers of potential problems caused by China’s forthcoming digital yuan, Russian Prime Minister said that digital asset token regulation at a legislative level must be introduced, and a US strike on Iran test the BTC as a safe have narrative. WisdomTree Investments with Abu Dhabi Investment Office and other investors invested in Securrency, aiming to integrate blockchain into the ETF ecosystem, and BTC ETF may be approved in the US in 2021, bringing many benefits.

Meanwhile, the ICO project that closed its blockchain finalized its token buyback, COSS locked the funds of 200,000 customers during 3-4 week of ‘maintenance’, Kraken said it was hit with 710 information requests from global law enforcement agencies in 2019, Huobi Japan struck a partnership with Japan Net Bank, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong shared his 11 predictions for the decade. We discussed the role that Bitcoin will play in the “retail apocalypse” and how well Bitcoin performed as a PR project. Meanwhile, John McAfee broke up with BTC, saying his USD 1 million-per-BTC was just a ruse. There were interesting wallet solutions and many companies hoping to shine at blockchain-focused CES; we looked into how much South Korean crypto exchanges pay their employees and into how many coins died in 2019, while vintage sardines became the talk of the Cryptoverse.

You’ve had tough crypto weak, here are your relaxing crypto jokes.

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First, let’s see what we’re talking about here and how not to get tricked.

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Now choose one. Don’t worry, this is a scientifically proven method.

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Accomplishing a rare several-layered mistake.

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I see nothing suspicious.

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Pfft, that’s not how I look like at all. I always have some chips around and/or over me, organically salted with my tears.

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Oh, look, a veteran hodler in the wild.

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One’s all it takes.

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It’s an emotional topic.

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Hmm, I wondered where they’ve all gone to.

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According to cryptology, the environment doesn’t suit it, so it’s waiting for crypto spring to jump.

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Almost there!

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Take a look at them alts.

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Be your own Peter: Your keys to heaven, your savior.

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For all the hodlers among us.

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No toilet breaks, please. Or we can all go together.

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Here’s a lesson in trading.

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It’s a state of constant pre-heart attack.

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To all in the Cryptoverse:

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Let’s all mark our calendars, people, the countdown is on!

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This was a week of Orthodox Christmas, and here’s a crypto holiday song to celebrate it.