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⛔️ Russian users are once again complaining about mass account blockings on Bybit — even experienced traders are being frozen, and amounts reach up to 500 000 USDT.
The exchange provides almost no information, asks to wait up to 30 days, and document requests can arrive weeks later.
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💳 Mastercard buys stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.8 billion.
Previously, BVNK was negotiating with Coinbase for a deal worth approximately $2 billion, but the talks fell through.
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🇻🇳 Vietnam wants to block access to foreign crypto exchanges like Binance and OKX — trading is proposed only through local platforms.
At the same time, a pilot for "their own" licensed exchanges is being launched this month.
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💳 Crypto card spending reached $100 000 000 per month — back in 2023, this figure was almost zero.
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☠️ Wife stole 2323 BTC from her husband by peeking at his seed phrase via CCTV cameras — the coins were distributed across 71 wallets and have not moved since December 2023.
Police have not yet proven the fact of theft.
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⛩ Metaplanet raised $531 million to buy BTC — the company plans to increase its portfolio to 100,000 BTC by the end of 2026 and to 210,000 BTC by 2027.
Currently, Metaplanet already holds 35,102 BTC on its balance sheet.
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🪙 It seems Tether is increasingly transforming from a stablecoin issuer into a full-fledged investment giant — over the past year, the company has disclosed over $1.6 billion in investments in various industries — from media and fintech to sports, gold, and biotechnology:
🔵 Rumble — $785 million
🔵 Elemental Royalty — $250 million
🔵 Juventus FC — $150 million
🔵 Gold com — $150 million
🔵 Anchorage Digital — $100 million
🔵 Gold Royalty — $90 million
🔵 Generative Bionics — $82 million
The irony is that many still perceive Tether simply as a "USDT printing company," but in fact, it is already one of the most active investors in the industry.
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🖥 The AI data center boom has once again raised an old question: what if miners massively abandon Bitcoin and go to earn money on AI, where "money is currently flowing faster"?
Some worry that this will weaken the network, but cryptographer Adam Back reminds: everything in Bitcoin self-regulates — miners leave, difficulty drops, and mining becomes profitable again.
Simply put, if AI temporarily "outbids" for electricity, the network will simply wait it out and automatically adjust.
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🪙 Big players are actively accumulating Ethereum again:
🔵 ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees after a year-long pause bought 23,393 ETH for approximately $49 million.
🔵 A wallet linked to an early Ethereum developer, 0xbilly, bought an additional 7,769 ETH for $17.5 million.
🔵 In parallel, 20,000 ETH ($44.8 million) was withdrawn from Coinbase.
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☠️ DeFi protocol Venus Protocol was attacked using a flash loan: the attacker pledged a large volume of THE and borrowed assets, withdrawing approximately $3,700,000 — approximately 20 BTC, 1.5 million CAKE, and 200 BNB.
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🪙 Ethereum Foundation sold 5 000 ETH ($10.2 million) via OTC company BitMine — the funds will go towards protocol development, grants, and the growth of the Ethereum ecosystem.
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💸 Coinbase is negotiating talks with Bybit about a possible partnership — if the deal goes through, Bybit could get a chance to enter the regulated US market, and Coinbase could strengthen its position by collaborating with one of the largest international exchanges.
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🪙 Ethereum Foundation published a new mandate in which they emphasized that their task is not to manage Ethereum, but to protect its original idea — user control over their assets and data.
According to Buterin, Ethereum must become a "refuge technology" — a system where no one can fully control the network, and users always have an escape route from any centralized system.
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☠️ FBI announced the dismantling of the global hacker proxy service SocksEscort — as part of the operation, dozens of servers and domains were seized and millions of dollars in cryptocurrency were frozen.
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🗽 The U.S. Senate supported ban on the issuance of a digital dollar until December 31, 2030 — The Federal Reserve System (FRS) and regional banks are prohibited from issuing a CBDC or any digital asset that essentially performs similar functions.
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🇧🇷 Ripple is entering Brazil in a big way — the company is launching a platform for banks and fintechs, covering everything from cross-border payments to custody and working with crypto reserves.
Concurrently, the company has applied for a VASP license with the Central Bank and has already secured the support of local players like Banco Genial and Braza Bank.
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💸 PayPal expands access to PYUSD stablecoin to 68 more countries.
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🚓 Former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff received 5 years in prison for helping crypto "godfather" Adam Eza — together they extorted money from victims, including $127,000 under threat of weapons.
Koberg not only "covered" schemes for $20,000 a month, but also participated in staged drug arrests.
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💰 Another crypto user gave away to scammers $1 760 000, by signing a phishing transaction.
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🇰🇷 South Korean regulator will fine crypto exchange Bithumb nearly $25,000,000 for AML rule violations.
The audit revealed about 6.6 million violations — from weak user verification to ignoring suspicious transactions, and new customers may temporarily face restrictions on the platform.
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🐳 Strategy bought more 22 337 BTC at an average price of $70 194 per 1 BTC — now the company's balance holds 761 068 BTC, acquired at a price of $75 696 per coin.
Analysts suggest that Strategy is capable of accumulating 1 million BTC by the end of the year.
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🇰🇿 In Kazakhstan, a batch of mining equipment worth over $1,000,000, which they tried to illegally export to Russia, was confiscated.
At the Aiyat checkpoint, customs discovered 8 tons of equipment, and the exporter did not have an export license.
The Kostanay regional court, following an appeal by the prosecutor's office, ruled to transfer all equipment into state ownership.
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🍿 An investigation into the shitcoin LIBRA revealed a document detailing alleged payments of $5 000 000 for its promotion, linked to Argentine President Javier Milei.
The materials were found on the devices of crypto lobbyist Mauricio Novelli — correspondence indicates coordination between participants and contacts with the president's inner circle before publications about the token.
Following Milei's public support, LIBRA's capitalization briefly exceeded $4.5 billion, but then collapsed by 96%, while wallets associated with the project withdrew about $107 million.
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🪙 Bitcoin is above $74,000—a month high.
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🇦🇲 The Armenian Stock Exchange is considering launching its own crypto platform, where digital assets can be traded and token placements like ICOs can be conducted.
According to the head of the platform, the project is still under discussion, but with the participation of an international partner, it could be implemented by the end of 2026.
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❄️ Tether today froze an address with a balance of almost $12,000,000 USDT — such blockages usually occur at the request of law enforcement agencies.
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🪙 On crypto exchanges there is currently the minimum amount of BTC since November 2017 — more and more coins are moving to cold wallets, which means the available supply for sale is decreasing.
History has already shown: when BTC is massively withdrawn from exchanges, the market usually prepares for sharper movements.
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💰 After the Fusaka update on the Ethereum network, the number of address spoofing attacks sharply increased — "dust" stablecoin transfers jumped by more than 600%.
Scammers send millions of micro-transactions so that their fake addresses appear in wallet history and look "familiar".
The calculation is simple: the user copies an address from recent transactions, doesn't notice the spoofing, and sends money to the attacker themselves. Due to low fees, such a scheme has become cheap and widespread — thousands of attempts for one successful transfer.
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🚓 In the Stavropol Krai, a couple set up a mining farm right in their garage and mined crypto for a year and a half, having connected to electricity bypassing the meter — according to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, during this time they "burned" energy worth over 2,000,000 rubles, now a criminal case has been opened against them.
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🪙 Ethereum has an "adoption paradox" — the network is breaking activity records, but the price is falling, according to CryptoQuant.
If the bear market continues, analysts allow for a drawdown to approximately $1500 by the end of 2026.
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