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🖥 Mining company Cango sold 4 451 BTC, reducing its Bitcoin reserve by approximately 60% and generating approximately $305 million at a price of ~$68 000 per coin.
The funds were directed towards partial repayment of a BTC-backed debt, the decision was approved by the board of directors after reviewing market conditions.
After the transaction, the company's balance sheet retained 3 645 BTC.
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💰 The incident at Bithumb, where users were credited with 620 000 phantom BTC for 20 minutes, was caused by an operational error, not fraud, and has nothing to do with the FTX collapse, analysts believe.
However, the glitch revealed a systemic vulnerability of centralized exchanges: internal balances exist only as database entries and can participate in trading even without on-chain backing.
Such an architectural problem is typical for all CEX and persists until funds are withdrawn to the blockchain.
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🇷🇺 In Russia, an increase in the detection rate of corruption crimes is recorded, while the schemes themselves are increasingly moving into the digital realm, including cryptocurrency settlements.
According to law enforcement agencies, bribes and kickbacks are increasingly passing through chains of shell companies and crypto wallets, especially in the sphere of public procurement and infrastructure contracts.
Experts note that crypto is used as a tool to complicate traces and mask beneficiaries, which makes the investigation of multi-level schemes significantly more difficult.
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🖥 Bitcoin mining difficulty decreased by 11.2% — this is the largest drop in the indicator since the July 2021 crash, caused by the ban on mining in China.
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🪙 Tether, amid rapid business growth, plans to hire another 150 employees in the next 18 months, predominantly developers, continuing its active expansion beyond the crypto market.
The company has already invested in approximately 140 projects — from a stake in Juventus to agricultural assets in South America — and states its intention to create peer-to-peer tools as an alternative to centralized Silicon Valley technologies.
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🪙 On the weekend, some user sent 2.56 BTC to the address of Satoshi Nakamoto.
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🗽 Jim Cramer stated that he heard about Donald Trump's plans to replenish the Bitcoin reserve at a price of around $60,000.
Do we believe it?
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🇷🇺 The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, jointly with the Central Bank and federal agencies, has approved the concept of tokenizing real sector economy assets.
The document aims to implement digital instruments that should increase asset liquidity, reduce costs, and lower the entry threshold for private investors.
The authorities expect that tokenization will strengthen the stability of financial organizations and increase the investment attractiveness of the Russian economy.
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🇨🇳 China has banned the unauthorized issuance of yuan-backed stablecoins.
Also, Chinese authorities reiterated that the crypto business in the country is illegal.
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😂 Exchange Bithumb mistakenly credited hundreds of users with 2000 BTC instead of 2000 KRW ($1.5) — some didn't hesitate and hit the order book.
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🌍 CZ stated that he is working with a large number of countries on launching their own stablecoins.
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☘️ Another solo miner mined a block on the first cryptocurrency's network, earning 3.26 BTC ($200,000).
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🪙 Tether strengthens its bet on real assets and infrastructure, by investing $150M in Goldcom to scale access to physical and tokenized gold, and $100M in licensed crypto bank Anchorage Digital.
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🏦 Sber plans to issue crypto-backed loans to corporate clients.
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🤖 AI breaks the familiar internet model — one agent can imitate thousands of people, and content forgery becomes cheap and widespread.
a16z crypto believe that blockchains in this reality cease to be an exotic novelty and turn into basic infrastructure — they restore scarcity at the identity level and make large-scale impersonation expensive.
Decentralized identity, machine payments, and portable "passports" for AI agents allow trust, participation, and privacy to be maintained without platform control.
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🪙 Strategy repurchased 1142 BTC last week at an average price of $78 815 per 1 BTC.
Now the company holds 714 644 BTC.
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💎 Tether's Gold Reserves grew to 148 tons — in the last quarter of 2025, the company acquired about 26 tons of gold, and in January added another 6 tons.
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🕵️♂️ The development of quantum computing DOES NOT pose an emergency threat to Bitcoin, the truly vulnerable volume is only 10 200 BTC — CoinShares.
According to analysts, the risk affects only outdated P2PK addresses, while the capabilities of modern quantum computers are orders of magnitude inferior to the level required for a mass network hack.
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🪙 Binance SAFU additionally acquired 4225 BTC ($300 million), now the fund's balance is 10 455 BTC.
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🇰🇬 CZ spent the weekend snowboarding with the President of Kyrgyzstan.
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🇻🇳 Vietnamese authorities plan to introduce a new tax regime for cryptocurrencies — individuals will pay a 0.1% tax on each digital asset transaction, similar to stock trading, and crypto trading itself is essentially equated to securities operations.
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🚬 Trend Research almost completely sold Ethereum — the company withdrew 792 532 ETH ($2.6 billion) from Binance at a price of $3267 and returned 772 865 ETH ($1.8 billion) back to the exchange at a price of $2326.
The total loss amounted to $747 000 000.
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🇪🇺 The European Commission has presented the 20th package of sanctions against Russia, which affects energy, finance, and trade, including restrictions for 20 regional banks and measures against cryptocurrency companies and platforms.
Banks in third countries that help circumvent restrictions may also fall under sanctions.
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💸 Tether printed another 1 000 000 000 USDT.
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🪙 Trend Research are accelerating the sale of Ethereum to repay loans — in the last 10 hours, the company dumped 170 033 ETH ($326M) and still holds 293 121 ETH ($563M).
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🪙 Binance continues to buy Bitcoin on the dip — Binance SAFU fund bought more 3 600 BTC and now owns 6 230 BTC worth $400 million.
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📉 Bitcoin dropped below $60,000 amidst one of the harshest sell-offs recently, currently trading above $65,000.
Within 24 hours, the market liquidated longs worth $2.2 billion, and the Fear & Greed Index fell to 9 — for the first time since June 2022, since the Terra crash.
According to analysts, the dump appears forced: possible sales by sovereign funds, problems at a major exchange, a liquidity crisis among ultra-wealthy players, or hidden leverage in the IBIT ETF.
A sell-off of assets by Chinese entities is also not ruled out — with a potential hit to the crypto market and Trump's political image as a "pro-crypto" candidate.
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🍿 Bitcoin is already below 64,000, Ethereum is below — $1900.
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🇨🇳 The Shanghai Exchange raised margin requirements and expanded limits on metal futures, effectively preparing for increased volatility.
More expensive positions drain liquidity and force speculators to reduce leverage, which increases the risk of sharp movements and corrections.
For markets, this is a signal towards risk-off, to which Bitcoin may also react through liquidity and sentiment.
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🪙 Justin Sun debunked rumors of an "ex-girlfriend" and alleged compliance issues, calling them false.
He stated that the company cooperates with law enforcement agencies worldwide and actively combats cybercrime to protect user funds.
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