Korean exchange users rise by 450 %, metaplanet buy 21k bitcoin: Asia Express

Japan ‘microstrategy’ It adopts 21 million planning for bitcoin

Metaplanet, a Japanese company, is often circulated, which is called “Microstrategy”, which collects more than 116 billion yen ($ 745 million) to expand Bitcoin’s holdings.

On January 28, the company announced that it had issued 21 million shares by transporting strike orders, which give investors the rights to acquire shares at modified exercise prices. While such notes are usually issued by a discount, the Metapanet offer does not, the share price is determined in Full closure value On the history of pricing.

The company claims that this is the biggest capital increase in Asian stock markets for bitcoin purchases.

Metaplanet set an ambitious target to raise 21000 Bitcoin by 2026, after reporting a 308 % BTC revenue in Q4 2024. The company collected 1,761 Bitcoin since the Bitcoin Bitco Scheme of Microstrategy in April 2024 and plans to pay this number to 10,000

According to the Bitcoin Treasury, Metaplanet is 15 of the largest bitcoin investor circulating in the world. Under the current classifications, 21000 Bitcoin will help the Japanese company a jump from riots as the third largest bitcoin holder in the world.

Microstrategy is still the undisputed pioneer in Bitcoin Corporate, with 471,107 Bitcoin worth $ 49.6 billion. Another 10,107 BTC added at about $ 1.1 billion throughout the past week. It has announced its “21/21 plan”, and the collection of donations targeting $ 21 billion in shares and $ 21 billion in fixed -income securities.

Trump sends the South Koreans to the exchange of encryption

According to what was reported, South Korea’s five -fold currency exchanges were 4.5 times more than the new account requests after Donald Trump beat former Vice President Kamala Harris in the US presidential elections in November.

According to the data distributed on Local media Lei Hansung legislators, the average exchanges of 108,695 new requests monthly from January to October. This number rose to 492,464 per month in November and December.

In total, 2.07 million new encryption trading accounts were recorded in 2024, with nearly half (47.6 %) in the last two months of the year. The legislator’s office also pointed to a significant increase in applicants between the ages of 40 years and over, and who represent 47.5 % of the new accounts.

South Korea remains a major player in the global encryption markets, as Korea won the best Fiat currency through the volume of trading at the industry level in early 2024.

The country’s encryption market is largely driven by retail, making local guidelines difficult for companies to trade digital assets. However, the organizers weigh the potential rules changes that can open the door to institutional trading.

A star of artificial intelligence in China, Dibsic Dibsik, Wall Street and Bitcoin

Deepseek, an Amnesty International application in China, was photographed to the highest Apple App Store in multiple regions, including the United States, and challenges the assumption that the first AI models require high-energy chips-an industry dominated by NVIDIA.

The Shockwaves Wall Street firmly struck as NVIDIA led the decline in artificial intelligence in the United States, which led to the withdrawal of global markets with them. Crypto was not involved, as Bitcoin fell to less than $ 100,000 for the first time since the US friendly President’s encoding Donald Trump took office.

With the high popularity of Deepseek, as well as speculation and fraud. At least 75 malicious symbols titled Deepseek have flooded the market on January 27, according to Blockaid security company. Some are directly linked to the official Deepseek site and social media accounts, although the company announced that it had never launched a symbol.

One of the Memoin has increased to approximately $ 50 million in the market value before collapse, reflecting a pattern similar to the Memoine frenzy, which is titled Trump’s last.

Meanwhile, questions were raised on the health of Deepseek, which claims to match Openai models with a small part of the cost.

American export restrictions are the most advanced artificial intelligence chips from China, but Dibsic He claims to be trained Its latest model, Deepseek-V3, on 2048 Nvidia H800 GPU, which is much lower and less power than GPU 16000 H100 Meta used in Lama. Dibsic insists on training the artificial intelligence model with about $ 6 million in financing, and a small part of billions that support Openai and its competitors.

Skepticians like analysts in Bernstein are demanding the cost of Dibsic production of artificial intelligence higher than the advertiser. Alexander Wang, CEO of Scale Ai, alleged The company uses banned NVIDIA chips, although its claims are still not verifying them.

According to reports, Microsoft and Openai had launched an internal probe whether data from Openai’s Technology Stack was accessed by a Deepseek collection.

New Lunar New Year’s recovery from Bitcoin

Since Deepseek has turned the markets, Bitcoin has recovered to more than $ 100,000 during the lunar New Year period fueled by trading activity in the East, which launch Matrixport digital asset services one of the positive periods of Bitcoin continuously.

The Bitcoin trading ratio is historically tended to the West, as it appears in Totheblock data. However, the eastern trading hours closed the gap and recorded almost a division on the eve of January 29, with western trading volumes over the new year.

The encryption industry also found other ways to celebrate celebrations other than bitcoin trading. With a classic flowing encryption style, merchants rushed to launch distinctive bilateral symbols (a sign of the snake), the sixth of 12 Chinese zodiac animals. As expected, most of them have already crashed.

Meanwhile, the exchange of encryption with strong relationships with the new lunar public Asia with Airdrops similar to the traditional Hongo, or red beams.

In Chinese culture, money is given in red envelopes during celebrations such as the New Year, with color symbolizing prosperity and luck. Other Asian cultures follow similar traditions, and encryption exchanges have been adapted by the distribution of “encrypted red beams” to users.

Hong Kong Greenlights, the first batch of licenses in 2025

Hong Kong released the first licenses for the coded currency service provider in 2025 to Yax and Panthertrade.

The Securities and Futures Committee approved the applications group, which raised the number of licensed encryption trading platforms in the city to nine.

Until recently, the Chefbeer Market in Hong Kong only dominated the exchanges: OSL and Hashkey, the first two they got approvals, with the Hashkey license in November 2022. Then the regulatory authority went to nearly two years without issuing another license before the approval of ASSETS Assets Exchange last October.

Meanwhile, SFC has warned investors of the high encryption fraud of Hashkey Exchang. The organizer recently added 33 frauds to the list of suspicious encryption platforms.

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Johan Yun

Yohan Yun is a multimedia journalist covering Blockchain since 2017. He has contributed to Crypto Media Outlet Forkast as an editor, and has covered Asian technology stories as an assistant correspondent for Bloomberg Bna and Forbes. He spends his spare time cooking, trying new recipes.