Federal Reserve Governor Bowman suggests preparing for interest rate cuts; Hong Kong promotes the development of stablecoins and expands gold reserves; Bitcoin volatility drops to a four-month low, with ETF inflows of $1.81 billion; Belarus allows banks to handle Bitcoin transactions.

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In this week's round of severe fluctuations in the East Eight Time Zone, the cryptocurrency contract market triggered approximately **$1.861 billion** in liquidations across the network within 24 hours, with leverage risk being concentrated and cleared in a very short time. More notably, about **$1.752 billion was from long positions**, while **short positions accounted for only about $110 million**, indicating a level of imbalance between longs and shorts that far exceeds the usual fluctuation range, described by multiple data providers and traders as the "**most severe single-day leverage wash since 2026**."

On January 15, 2026, Eastern Standard Time, **BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR)** announced a **$200 million strategic investment** in **Beast Industries**, owned by **MrBeast**, led personally by Chairman **Tom Lee**. This news immediately attracted significant attention in the cryptocurrency and technology circles. Prior to this, BitMine was regarded as a "single-line bet" due to its long-term accumulation in Ethereum-related assets and infrastructure.

On January 16, 2026, Eastern Standard Time, the mining company **BitMine** announced a strategic investment of **200 million USD** into YouTuber **MrBeast**'s **Beast Industries**. This investment is characterized as an equity and ecological cooperative investment focused on "long-term layout of Ethereum, DeFi, and tokenization." For a company that started with Bitcoin mining, this not only signifies a transition from mining machines and computing power to consumer media and traffic economy,

On January 16, 2026, Eastern Standard Time, the Nasdaq-listed mining company **Riot Platforms** announced the sale of **1,080 bitcoins**, cashing out approximately **$96 million** to acquire a plot of land in Rockdale, Texas, and signed a data center leasing agreement with **AMD**, planning to complete the initial deployment of **25 megawatts of critical IT load capacity** between **January and May 2026**. This combination of actions will redefine the traditional concept of "mining machines mining coins."

On January 16, 2026, at 8:00 AM UTC+8, the cryptocurrency derivatives market will welcome its first key expiration date of the new year, with a large-scale expiration of BTC and ETH options contracts, totaling approximately **$2.73 billion** in nominal value, prompting the market to reassess the dynamics of bullish and bearish forces. According to public data, about **20,000 BTC options** (with a nominal value of approximately **$2.3 billion**) and **120,000 ETH options** (with a nominal value of approximately **$430 million**) will simultaneously reach the end of their lifecycle.

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