#BitwiseBitcoinETF
Since our founding, Bitwise has helped a wide range of investors access crypto’s opportunities and manage its risks. We manage your investment using systems built for institutions, from custody and trading to regulation and compliance.
Bitwise’s team of more than 60 dedicated professionals focuses solely on crypto, as we have from the beginning. In choosing BITB, investors gain exposure not only to bitcoin but a nationwide team of crypto experts with the tools, insights, and specialized experience to help them navigate the space with confidence.

Bitcoin is a disruptive technology that aims to fundamentally change how we transact and store value. By investing directly in bitcoin, BITB provides a convenient solution to the complexities of bitcoin ownership.

$BNB
Binance Coin is the cryptocurrency of the Binance platform. It is a trading platform exclusively for cryptocurrencies. The name "Binance" is a combination of binary and finance. Thus, the startup name shows that only cryptocurrencies can be traded against each other. It is not possible to trade crypto currencies against Fiat. The platform achieved an enormous success within a very short time and is focused on worldwide market with Malta headquarters. The cryptocurrency currently has a daily trading volume of 1.5 billion - 2 billion US dollars and is still increasing. In total, there will only be 200 million BNBs. Binance uses the ERC20 token standard from Ethereum and has distributed it as follow: 50% sold on ICO, 40% to the team and 10% to Angel investors. The coin can be used to pay fees on Binance. These include trading fees, transaction fees, listing fees and others. Binance gives you a huge discount when fees are paid in BNB. The schedule of BNB fees discount is as follow: In the first year, 50% discount on all fees, second year 25% discount, third year 12.5% discount, fourth year 6.75 % discount, and from the fifth year onwards there is no discount. This structure is used to incentivize users to buy BNB and do trades within Binance. Binance announced in a buyback plan that it would buy back up to 100 million BNB in Q1 2018. The coins are then burned. This means that they are devaluated to increase the value of the remaining coins. This benefits investors. In the future, the cryptocurrency will remain an asset on the trading platform and will be used as gas. Other tokens that are issued by exchanges include Bibox Token, OKB, Huobi Token, and more.

#Crypto2025Trends

2025 Crypto Market Outlook is now live. The annual Outlook provides investors with deep dives that span the crypto universe, from altcoins to ETFs, staking to gaming, and much more. Below, we highlight five areas to watch in 2025:

Stablecoins are crypto’s killer app, and we are fast approaching the day when their primary use case will move beyond trading.
While challenges remain, tokenization will emerge as a cornerstone of the current market cycle.
Potential changes to crypto ETFs, such as allowing in-kind creations and redemptions or staking, could further increase demand.
Despite facing setbacks in the last cycle, DeFi will be propelled into a new era of innovation.
A new regulatory regime that appears poised to make clear, sensible rules will benefit both the crypto industry and consumers.

#BTCPricePrediction
The price of Bitcoin has increased by 0.39% in the last hour and decreased by 1.67% in the past 24 hours.

Bitcoin’s price is renowned for being highly volatile, but despite that, it has become the top performing asset of any class (including stocks, commodities and bonds) over the past decade – climbing a staggering 9,000,000% between 2010 and 2020.

When the cryptocurrency was launched at the beginning of 2009, as Satoshi Nakamoto mined the bitcoin genesis block (the first-ever block on the Bitcoin blockchain), 50 BTC entered circulation at a price of $0.00.

Fifty bitcoin continued to enter circulation every block (created once every 10 minutes) until the first halving event took place in November 2012 (see below). Halvings refer to bitcoin’s issuance system, which was programmed into Bitcoin’s code by Satoshi Nakamoto. It essentially involves automatically halving the number of new BTC entering circulation every 210,000 blocks.

In February 2011, BTC’s price reached parity with the U.S dollar for the first time. The milestone encouraged new investors into the market, and over the next four months, bitcoin’s price in USD continued to rise – peaking at over $30.

By early 2013, the leading cryptocurrency had recovered from a prolonged bearish episode and rose above $1,000, albeit only briefly. But with the infamous Mt Gox hack, China announcing its first ban on crypto and other situations, it took a further four years for the BTC price to return to above $1,000 again. Once that level was passed, however, bitcoin’s price continued to surge dramatically throughout 2017 until BTC peaked at its previous long-standing all-time high of $19,850.

Over 2018, the entire crypto market plunged into what is now known as the “crypto winter” – a yearlong bear market. It wasn’t until December 2020, when bitcoin returned to test the previous all-time high, that it eventually surpassed that historical level and rose a further 239% over the next 119 days to a new all-time high of $64,799.

$BTC
Since Bitcoin’s creation, thousands of new cryptocurrencies have been launched, but bitcoin (abbreviated as BTC) remains the largest by market capitalization and trading volume
To really grasp how bitcoin works, it helps to start at the beginning. The question of who created bitcoin is a fascinating one, because a decade after inventing the technology—and despite a lot of digging by journalists and members of the crypto community—its creator remains anonymous.

#XmasCryptoMiracles
Cryptographic theory has provided the notion of provable security which is often an unattainable ideal in practice. Theoretical work gains provable secure protocols only at the cost of efficiency. Theorists are moving from certain primitives towards powerful sets of primitives. That happens because provable secure protocols often have a complex and obscure design, which leads to inefficiency and mistakes. To bridge the gap between cryptographic theory and practice, the random oracle hypothesis was developed. This hypothesis yields crypto protocols much more efficient than standard ones. The article describes the concept of the random oracle model and the replacement of random oracles with hash functions. Practical work shows that no one has been able to perform a successful attack on such crypto protocols