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GM. This is Milk Road. We’re like Dog the Bounty Hunter, except instead of rounding up fugitives – we hunt down all the cool stuff floating around the crypto space and return it to you.

Here’s what we got for you today:

• ✍️ Cryptmas gift guide

• ✍️ Microsoft fades $BTC, Nasdaq embraces it

• 🎙️ The Milk Road Show: Bitcoin Predictions for 2025: Price, Market Analysis & More w/ Tether Co-Founder 

• 🍪 Ripple’s stablecoin gains approval

CRYPTO HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 🎁

Got a hard-to-buy for degen in your life?

A frumpy uncle you’re looking to orange pill?

…or maybe you’re just looking for a bunch of gift ideas you can forward to a loved one?

Say no more. This list covers it all. 👇 

1/ Hivemapper Dashcam (get paid to map streets as you drive) $589

The Hivemapper Dashcam is a ‘crypto mullet’ product – plain old dash cam in the front, token generating device in the back!

2/ Helium Indoor Hotspot (The DIY Cell Tower) $249

Plug the Helium Hotspot into your home wifi router → send out a 5G signal to your local area → charge Helium Mobile subscribers to use it.

3/ Ledger Wallet $149 – $399 

The world’s most popular hardware wallet (no permanent internet connection = greater security).

Nano X – $149 – The usb-style crypto wallet.

Stax – $399 – The passport-style touchscreen crypto wallet.

4/ The Degen1 (the world’s most cracked out Ethereum wallet) ~$500 on pre-order

Kinda like the Ledger Stax, but if the team restricted its use to the Ethereum ecosystem…and did mushrooms before hitting the design studio. 

This thing has a 4-inch touch screen, fingerprint scanner, decentralized app store, custom graphical operating system, gaming functionality, social apps, 1 Physical + 1 E-sim, 256G harddrive – hell, it even has a laser pointer.

Basically, it’s trying to become the most fun $ETH wallet out there.

5/ Burner (half crypto wallet, half gift card) currently $9

Picture a translucent floppy disk…add an NFC chip to it…and give it as many color options as the original iMac desktop computers. That’s kind of how we see the Burner.

You tap the card to your phone, in order to add funds to the card (no app needed) – then, when you want to spend that crypto, you just tap the card to your phone again to verify the transaction.

This way, you can load it with funds and send it to a loved one as a gift card for them to spend.

6/ Milk Road PRO subscription (learn how to build wealth with crypto) $25 p/m or $250 per year

Milk Road PRO = everything you need to make the most of this bull run! 👇

7/ The Little Book of Bitcoin: What You Need to Know that Wall Street Has Already Figured Out $26.55

Pretty much everything you need in order to Orange Pill your loved ones, crammed into 224 pages.

8/ Solana Seeker (aka: the Solana Phone 2) $500 pre order

An android smart phone built for blockchain apps.

9/ The Sui Play 0x1 $599 on pre-order

A Handheld Gaming PC, custom built for web3 games. (Pre Order) 

10/ A subscription to CoinStats Premium for $7/month

Keep track of your entire portfolio, across multiple wallets and blockchains, all in one easy to use app. 

11/ A physical Bitcoin $7.95

Not an actual Bitcoin, but a physical souvenir of sorts.

Alright, that’s everything we could sanely fit into a single edition of this-here newsletter.

Merry Cryptmas ya’ll!

MICROSOFT IS OUT, NASDAQ IS IN 🫡

Microsoft investors voted ‘no’ to adding Bitcoin to the company’s balance sheet yesterday, but it looks like Nasdaq is about to say yes.

(At least, they’re about to say yes to MicroStrategy, the most famous Bitcoin proxy stock out there).

What’re we on about? This. 👇

Here’s why you should care:

The Nasdaq 100 is an index of select stocks, which cops allocations from a range of funds – which means they’re literally mandated to buy shares from companies listed on the index.

So $MSTR may be about to attract a whole bunch of new investor dollars, just by being included on this very exclusive list.

…and we all know what Saylor does when MicroStrategy earns a bit of spare cash:

He takes a high pressure hose and pumps it directly into Bitcoin, while quietly chanting “Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom”.

(At least, that’s how we picture it).

Either way, more TradFi dollars could be about to start flowing into Bitcoin very soon!

TETHER CO-FOUNDER PREDICTS BITCOIN’S 2025 TOP 🔮

Last time William Quigley was on The Milk Road Show, he predicted $100k Bitcoin by the end of 2024. 

($BTC was at $62k at the time).

So today, we brought William back on the show to grill him on his predictions for 2025!

In this episode, we cover:

• Potential pullbacks and market volatility 

• When might Bitcoin peak (and at what price)?

• Concerns about MicroStrategy's Bitcoin holdings

Plus a whole lot more! Don’t miss it – click below to watch the episode now! 👇

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BITE-SIZED COOKIES FOR THE ROAD 🍪

Ledger is back at it again with another new product. First, it was the Ledger Stax and now the Ledger Flex. Wow, Ledger just keeps on innovating. Impressive.

Ripple’s stablecoin, $RLUSD, gains approval. Wondering why $XRP is having a good day? That approval^ is the reason.

CPI data comes in as expected. After this news, the chances of a rate cut in December shot up to 97%. Macro conditions don’t seem as scary anymore.

Microsoft shareholders have decisively rejected the Bitcoin investment proposal. We dared to dream but deep down, we all knew this was coming. But hey, can’t blame a guy for hoping, right?

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DISCLAIMER: None of this is financial advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Please be careful and do your own research.