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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2023
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Schedule of Assets, Liabilities and Net Assets of Company's Argentinean Subsidiaries | The following table sets forth the assets, liabilities and net assets of the Company’s Argentine subsidiaries and consolidated VIEs, before intercompany eliminations, as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022:
| December 31,
| 2023 |  | 2022
| (In millions)
Assets | $ | 3,298 |  |  | $ | 3,238 |
Liabilities | 1,878 |  |  | 2,419 |
Net assets | $ | 1,420 |  |  | $ | 819 |
Schedule of Net Revenues and Net Income Before Income Tax of Company's Argentinean Subsidiaries | The following table provides information relating to net revenues and direct contribution (see Note 9 – Segments of these audited consolidated financial statements for definition of direct contribution) for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021 of the Company’s Argentine subsidiaries and consolidated VIEs:
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2023 |  | 2022 |  | 2021
| (In millions)
Net revenues | $ | 3,240 |  |  | $ | 2,500 |  |  | $ | 1,531 |
Direct contribution | 1,403 |  |  | 1,012 |  |  | 533 |
Summary of Crypto Asset Information | The following table presents the digital assets name, cost basis, fair value, and number of units for each significant digital asset holding as of December 31, 2023:
Digital asset name | Cost basis | Fair value | Number of units held
| (in millions, except for number of units held)
Bitcoin | $ | 6 |  | $ | 17 |  | 412.7
Ether | 3 |  | 7 |  | 3,041.6
Summary of Crypto Asset Activity | The following table summarizes the digital assets rollforward activity during the year ended December 31, 2023:
| December 31, 2023
| (in millions)
Balance at beginning of year (1) | $ | 9 |
Adoption of ASU 2023-08 | 1 |
Gains included in net income | 14 |
Balance at end of year (2) | $ | 24 |
(1) Included in Intangible assets, net as of December 31, 2022. (2) Included in Intangible assets at fair value as of December 31, 2023.

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