Good morning
* Coinbase CEO says at WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM:
"It's clear at this point that Bitcoin is a better form of money than gold… As a store of value, it's important for governments to hold Bitcoins over time."
* BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink said interest rates could rise at some point in the next 12 months.
* Venture capital firm Paradigm published an article calling for accelerating Ethereum development.
* President Trump announces emergency tariffs of 25% on all Colombian products and financial sanctions for rejecting deportation flights.
* Binance founder, CZ, says that "all governments should track all their spending on the blockchain, an immutable public ledger."
* Eric Trump has confirmed that cryptocurrency projects based in the U.S. will not have capital gains taxes.
* On the eve of a new European Central Bank meeting next week, the evolution of inflation in the services sector seems stalled around 4%, making it very difficult to reach the overall target of 2%.
But in favor of the ECB continuing its rate cuts is the lack of growth being experienced in the eurozone. We may see another cut of 0.25% this coming Thursday.
The decision on interest rates and the press conference will be on Thursday.
* 8 of the 9 months of FEBRUARY that Ethereum recorded were BULLISH for its PRICE.
If HISTORY repeats itself, next month is going to be VERY GOOD for ETH and therefore for altcoins.
* Ripple, known for its cryptocurrency XRP, has positioned itself as a possible intermediary solution between traditional systems and decentralized cryptocurrencies. Ripple has proposed its technology as infrastructure for the development of CBDCs, offering an alternative that combines efficiency and scalability with a regulated approach. Although the U.S. executive order banning CBDCs in the U.S. could limit Ripple's possibilities within the country, its strategy has focused on collaborating with central banks in other regions, which could position it as a key player in the future of digital currencies.
* Roger Ver, known as "Bitcoin Jesus," asked Trump for help on Twitter. He said he could be extradited from Spain to the United States tonight and sentenced to up to 109 years in prison.
* According to ZachXBT, it is suspected that on December 12, 2024, a victim's address was hacked and about 29 million dollars worth of SUI assets were stolen.
* According to the Brazilian media Blocknews, Petrobras, the Brazilian national oil company, announced that it will launch a research and development project to enter the field of Bitcoin mining.
* Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, said that since approximately one million new tokens are created each week, the traditional process of reviewing each one is no longer sustainable.
