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🪙 The restaurant chain Steak ’n Shake has started paying employees a bonus in BTC — a fixed $0.21 per hour of work.
This is one of the first such programs in the U.S., aimed at integrating cryptocurrency into payroll.
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🤣 A Slovak developer shoved a 66 KB image directly into a Bitcoin transaction — without Taproot, without OP_RETURN, and without all the "restrictions" that BIP-110 proposes.
Inside is a TIFF with a crying Luke Dash Jr. (one of the main proponents of BIP-110) and subtle trolling of the idea of fighting "spam" at the consensus level.
The experiment showed a simple thing: if someone wants to write something to the blockchain, they will find a way — a soft fork is not a panacea.
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📊 By the end of February, Bitcoin fell by 15% — the fifth negative month in a row.
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📉 Today, the USA and Israel launched strikes on Iran — the crypto market reacted with a fall as usual.
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💸 PayPal launches "stablecoin builder", together with MoonPay, they introduced PYUSDx — a platform for issuing their own dollar stablecoins based on PYUSD.
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🖥 The largest public US miner MARA Holdings reported a loss of $1.7 billion for Q4 2025 — compared to a profit of $528 million a year earlier.
The main impact came from the revaluation of Bitcoin reserves amid the falling exchange rate; while hashrate grew to 66.4 EH/s, mining decreased, and the cost of electricity per BTC increased to $48,611.
Despite the weak report, shares rose by more than 15% after the announcement of the launch of a joint AI project with Starwood Capital Group for the construction of data centers with a capacity of up to 2.5 GW.
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🪙 Solana currently controls 49% of the market for micropayments between AI agents based on the x402 protocol.
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🏦 Moscow Exchange prepares to start cryptocurrency trading —the platform is already testing trading processes together with brokers and preparing for the start of crypto trading.
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🇷🇺 In the Astrakhan region, an illegal mining farm was uncovered — 136 devices connected to a 10 kV network via two transformers and stole electricity worth almost 40,000,000 rubles.
According to "Rosseti Yug", the volume of illegal consumption amounted to about 3.2 million kWh. Now law enforcement agencies are identifying those involved.
It seems someone decided that hashrate is more important than the meter.
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🍿 Several Axiom employees used internal company data for insider trading, reported crypto investigator ZachXBT. This refers to the abuse of official information for personal gain.
Axiom is a cryptocurrency trading platform (and infrastructure provider) that works with on-chain data and tools for traders.
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📊 In January, the volume of stablecoin transfers exceeded $10.5 trillion — the highest value since April 2022.
The majority of operations accounted for USDC from Circle — $8.3 trillion, USDT's indicator was $1.7 trillion, and DAI took third place with a value of $138 billion.
For incomplete February, the volume of stablecoin transactions reached $7.8 trillion.
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🪙 Net spot Bitcoin demand moved into positive territory for the first time since November 2025.
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💸 Vitalik Buterin sold a total of 17 196 ETH (approximately $35 million) — the market is calmly absorbing these volumes without noticeable panic, as the funds are directed to support projects within the Ethereum ecosystem.
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🪙 ETHZilla no longer bets on holding large ETH reserves — the company abandons the idea of being a "public proxy on Ethereum", conducts rebranding to Forum Markets and changes its Nasdaq ticker to FRMM.
A year ago, their shares soared to $107 after news of the creation of a $425 million Ethereum treasury, but then the quotes collapsed by about 96% from their peak.
Now the company is betting not on crypto reserves, but on the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA).
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🤣 It seems Lighter got a little ahead of the timeline — they already have Bitcoin at $47,500.
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🎲 Three linked wallets earned $2 350 000 in one month (1, 2, 3) profit by betting on Polymarket only on whether the BTC price would go up or down.
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🇮🇷 Iran's state television announced the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had led the country for 37 years.
Donald Trump stated that Iran "got hit hard," calling the event "a great day for peace," and expressed the opinion that the negotiation process could now proceed more easily.
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🎲 Today, on Magamyman?tab=positions">Polymarket, an incredibly lucky trader surfaced: the account went "all-in" on markets with the outcome "US will strike Iran before March 1" — and hit the deadline exactly.
The bet closed literally a day before the attack, so the odds were astronomical — and someone's inside information (or incredible luck) turned into a very large profit.
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🤣 South Korea's tax office published the seed phrase of a confiscated wallet — from which $4 800 000 in crypto was quickly withdrawn, after initially depositing some ETH for fees.
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🐳 What percentage of a portfolio in BTC is recommended on Wall Street:
🔴 Fidelity — 2–5%
🔴 Bank of America — 1–4%
🔴 Morgan Stanley — 0–4%
🔴 BlackRock — 1–2%
🔴 WisdomTree — 0.5–1.5%
🔴 JPMorgan Chase — 0.5–1%
In general, large financial institutions view Bitcoin as a small diversification addition to a portfolio, not its foundation.
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🔮 Co-founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales does not believe in "the death of Bitcoin": according to him, the network is quite resilient and will survive even a 51% attack — through a fork, it will simply continue to live.
But he does not believe in its role as the money of the future. His prediction is harsh: by 2050, BTC could be worth less than $10,000 in today's prices — and possibly much lower.
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🐋 An OTC whale, who aggressively bought BTC and ETH at the start of the market downturn, seems to capitulate — he sold 23,500 ETH for $47.8 million to cover loans.
From January 8 to February 2, he accumulated 163,405 ETH for $440 million at an average of $2691, and then from February 2 to February 5, he bought an additional 4,000 cbBTC for $296 million at $74,004.
Now his position is deeply in the red — about $135 million. It seems even large players cannot withstand market pressure.
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🇷🇺 Russians' crypto transactions may fall under new restrictions — according to the discussed version of the bill by the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance, operations for the purchase, sale, and transfer of crypto assets are planned to be filtered through a "banking filter".
In addition, it is proposed the creation of a black list of market participants — banks will automatically reject transfers to them.
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🎲 Trader predictorxyz">predictorxyz bet $65 800 that Axiom would be accused of insider trading when the probability of the event was estimated at only 13.8% — in the end, the bet paid off and brought him $411 400 profit.
Meanwhile, three hours before the accusations were published, two newly created anonymous wallets placed bets on Axiom totaling $59,800 and earned about $109 000 in a short time.
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💎 DeFi protocol Aave became the first in the industry whose total lending volume exceeded $1 trillion.
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🤖 Future blockchains will have to process up to 1 billion transactions per second — otherwise they will not withstand the load from AI agents, which will independently make purchases and online operations, stated at Stripe.
Currently, even the fastest networks operate at thousands of TPS, so the gap between reality and the demands of the "AI era" is colossal.
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🔮 Prediction platform Kalshi for the first time revealed information about insider trading cases — in one instance an employee of the most popular YouTube blogger MrBeast placed bets on outcomes, related to his videos, having access to non-public information.
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🪒 The Board of Directors of GD Culture Group authorized the sale of 7500 BTC from the company's treasury.
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🪙 Developers of Ethereum unveiled a roadmap that promises 10 000+ transactions per second on L1.
It is also planned to reduce transaction finalization time to 18 seconds and lower the staking threshold to 1 ETH.
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🇸🇻 In El Salvador, tourists have started issuing Bitcoin passports.
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