BREAKING: $435 million has been liquidated from the cryptocurrency market in the past 12 hours.

January 23 — Per Cointelegraph, a winter storm threatening much of the southern U.S. could force Bitcoin miners to shut down operations. U.S.-based weather forecaster AccuWeather said Thursday the "major winter storm" will span 1,800 miles, stretching from the far western tip of Texas to the mid-Atlantic coast and impacting over 60 million people. Historically, when large storms disrupt the grid, Bitcoin miners have voluntarily cut back activity to ease the grid’s burden. During a major 2022 winter storm in Texas, crypto miners in the state scaled back operations voluntarily. Bitcoin ESG researcher Daniel Batten noted that as extreme weather events grow more frequent globally, the need to balance Bitcoin mining loads will rise — especially as more solar and wind power comes online.

January 23 — Kenneth Griffin, founder and CEO of multi-strategy hedge fund Citadel, warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos that Japan’s recent record-high government bond yields are a “clear warning” for the U.S. U.S. Treasury yields are now closing in on the dangerous 5% threshold. A 5% yield not only means U.S. bonds now offer returns competitive enough to match stocks, but also signals a fundamental shift in risk dynamics. Typically, bonds serve as a stable, low-risk anchor for portfolios. But when yields surge to levels matching stocks, risk-averse investors chasing stability face excessive risk. Griffin noted: “If the market ever loses faith in the U.S.’s impeccable creditworthiness, U.S. Treasuries will be treated as risky assets, triggering a simultaneous drop in both stocks and bonds. That will push the bond market to demand higher yields, which in turn lifts mortgage rates — ultimately making deficit financing far more costly for the U.S. While the U.S. isn’t yet ‘p

**OKX to Launch ACU/USDT Perpetual Contract on Jan 23, 2026 at 15:00 UTC+8** Per an official announcement, cryptocurrency exchange OKX will officially roll out the ACU/USDT perpetual contract on **January 23, 2026, at 15:00 UTC+8** (3:00 PM China Standard Time) across its web platform, mobile app, and API endpoints. The launch will be available simultaneously across web, iOS/Android apps, and API access for eligible users.

Jan. 23 — Per monitoring from Telegram’s HyperInsight, the “Lightning Reversal” whale (address 0x50b30) closed its 354.87 BTC short position at 13:29 ET, netting $53,000 in profits. The address currently holds no open positions and is waiting on the sidelines. This whale address frequently switches between long and short positions, typically opening a large position in the opposite direction immediately after closing an existing one.

On January 23, @MaxBecauseBTC—founder of crypto analysis platform BecauseBitcoin—posted that Bitcoin’s 3-day Bollinger Bands are highly compressed, signaling extremely low volatility. This compression has occurred just 8 times since 2015 (including the current instance), with 6 of the past 7 leading to an upside breakout. Combining Bollinger Band width and the logarithmic MACD indicator, @MaxBecauseBTC stressed the current market slump is nearing its end.

As of January 23, per monitoring from HyperInsight (link: https://t.me/HyperInsight), the trader nicknamed "McDonald's Battle God" has opened a 40x leveraged long position on 25.12 BTC at an average entry price of $89,550.8—currently sitting on a small floating loss. The associated address has executed 199 trades total: just 5 resulted in a combined loss of $5,195.36, while the other 194 were closed with profits, netting the account $404,200 in total gains.