I wrote this article with nothing to do on Christmas Eve, and it was first published on Weibo, but it was quietly deleted, and I didn't find out until the next day. I didn't leave a draft, so I could only rewrite it from memory, waiting to be slapped in the face at this time next year.
- Bakkt's trading volume exploded, becoming the largest futures exchange for Bitcoin. 
- The price of Bitcoin hit a new all-time high, and the price of Ethereum continued to fall. 
- The usdt squeeze event occurred, and the concept of stable currency ebbed. 
- The lightning network is widely accepted, and Bitcoin is once again facing a hard fork for expansion. 
- There are decentralized lending projects on the Bitcoin chain, as well as related derivatives projects. 
- A large number of DAO projects have emerged, and a new model of blockchain crowdfunding has been born. 
- Driven by capital, more and more alliance chain projects embrace open source, and the number of nodes in the alliance chain increases rapidly. 
- The boundary between the alliance chain and the public chain is gradually blurred, and mainstream financial institutions have begun to try public chain applications. 
- The PoS experiment failed, and PoW became the mainstream consensus algorithm again. 
- Anonymity and privacy protection are getting more and more attention, and zero-knowledge proof has become the standard configuration of blockchain. 


