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Say Goodbye to Sub-$60K Forever: Samson Mow Doubles His Predictions
The past weekend surprised all Bitcoin holders in the best sense of the word; during that time, the flagship cryptocurrency managed to jump from $58,580 to $62,900, a dramatic escalate of almost 7.5%. Following this positive development, on January 3, CEO and Bitcoin avid supporter Samson Mow shared a bold prediction for the asset’s price in the long term. According to Mow, Bitcoin will never again fall below $60,000. Since the beginning of the week showed that BTC seems to be holding powerful at the newly rebounded $60,000 level, yesterday the CEO repeated his prediction; he reposted it on his X page, accompanying it with a comical GIF of NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye.”
Shibarium Bridge mood raises BONE by 6%
Lucie, the project’s marketing lead and a prominent member of the SHIB community, was recently spotted encouraging SHIB enthusiasts to talk about the Shibarium Bridge on X (formerly Twitter). Such attention from a Shiba Inu team member has come in handy for the so-called Shiba Trifecta – the SHIB, BONE, and LEASH tokens – as all three have seen positive changes in their prices. According to market data, SHIB is currently trading at $0.0000194, up 7.43% in the last 24 hours. LEASH, on the other hand, is up 4.76% in the last day, currently trading at $344. Finally, the BONE token has seen the biggest escalate; at the time of writing, BONE is changing hands at $0.5784, up 14.79% in the last 24 hours.
136 million in three hours – what’s happening?
As reported by blockchain tracker Whale Alert, yesterday, the market recorded a transfer of 136 million XRP. Interestingly, this huge amount of Ripple-related tokens was transferred in just three hours and went through four huge transactions. Most of these funds were withdrawn from Binance through mysterious wallets. The anonymous whales made three transfers, withdrawing millions of XRP from Binance in each of them. These giant transactions included 33,839,894 XRP; 35,937,321 XRP; and 38,783,752 XRP. In total, these whales withdrew 110 million XRP to their wallets. In the meantime, 28,070,000 XRP worth $14,936,884 were deposited on Bitstamp.
