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The Crypto Catch-up… Judgy… The US gov’t got the OK to sell 69K bitcoin, valued at $6.5B, linked to the Silk Road. A sale could pressure BTC’s price, but it’s unclear if it would happen before the inauguration of Trump, who’s promised a federal BTC stockpile.   Sus… Pump.science, the decentralized-science (DeSci) project that lets crypto “degens” bet on meme coins tied to research, is launching a betting platform. Users can wager on the stamina of mice that’ve been given potentially life-extending drugs.  Spicy… Outgoing SEC Chair Gary Gensler said there’s more work to be done regulating crypto, and that investors aren’t getting sufficient disclosures from digital-asset cos. The industry has criticized Gensler’s SEC, which launched ~100 crypto-related cases.

What else we’re Snackin’ Disney said that its ad-supported plans on streamers like Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ count 157M users after it hiked prices for commercial-free plans. Apple said that it never sold Siri data to advertisers, a week after it settled a related proposed class-action lawsuit for $95M.East and Gulf Coast port employers reached a tentative deal with the dockworkers’ union, averting a redo of October’s 47K-worker strike. Shares of Vail Resorts rode the chair lift up Wednesday after the biz said it’d resolved a ski patrollers’ strike that had closed slopes. Volkswagen delivered 4.8M vehicles last year, down 1.4%, as revved-up competition in China weighed on sales.