Planet Morning News | January 12

1. Spot gold rises above $4,600 for the first time;

2. Powell: Criminal prosecution threat from US Justice Department due to Fed's independent interest rate setting;

3. BitMine stakes additional 109,504 ETH, cumulative staked ETH reaches 1.19 million;

4. Federal prosecutors launch criminal investigation into Fed Chair Powell;

5. Whale sells $912,000 worth of WHITEWHALE tokens, still holds $4.24 million worth;

6. BitMine's total staked ETH surpasses 1 million, total value approximately $3.36 billion;

7. New address withdraws $1.55 million worth of ZEC from Binance;

8. Michael Saylor posts Bitcoin Tracker info again, potentially accumulating more BTC;

9. Tether successfully registers trademark in Russia for its asset tokenization platform Hadron;

10. Machi Big Brother's 25x leveraged ETH long position shows unrealized loss of $287,000, with over $2 million in unrealized profits wiped from the peak.