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🔸 MicroStrategy acquired an additional 51,780 BTC for $4.6 billion, bringing the company’s total holdings to 331,200 BTC.

🔸 Bloomberg: Trading of options for BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, might begin as early as tomorrow. 🤑

🔸 Pavel Durov announced a major update for Telegram focused on Mini Apps.

🔸 Tesla shares rose by 7% after Trump hinted at easing regulations.

💸 At Bangkok Devcon2024, Vitalik Buterin shared his vision for the future of Ethereum, which includes:

🔸 Enhancements in decentralization, censorship resistance, and resilience to quantum technology;
🔸 Progressive updates to improve efficiency and scalability;
🔸 Upgrades to DA structures that will allow network transactions to reach up to 100,000 per second on L2 levels;
🔸 Scalability sufficient to support diverse applications, such as ENS, consumer payments, social platforms, and “blended financial and non-financial” solutions.

Buterin’s roadmap highlights Ethereum’s path toward becoming a more robust and adaptable blockchain platform.

BTC hits $89k, surpassing silver in market cap 🍸

Only $500 left to reach the $90k milestone… 😮

🔸 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink believes that the fate of BTC does not depend on the outcome of the US elections.

🔸 Russia's Federal Tax Service (FNS) clarified that miners will pay taxes in two stages 😠.

🔸 FinCen fined TD Bank $1.3 billion for involvement in money laundering through cryptocurrencies.

🔸 Media reports: Israeli authorities do not plan to attack Iran's oil or nuclear facilities.

🔸 Sui Foundation denies allegations of insider sales of $400 million worth of SUI tokens.

🔸 Canary Capital has filed an application for a spot Litecoin ETF 🤑.

🔸 Metaplanet acquired an additional 106 BTC, causing the company's stock to rise by 16%.

🔸 UAE’s Central Bank has approved the launch of the stablecoin AE Coin, pegged to the dirham.

🔸 The scam exchange MtGox has extended the compensation payout deadline to October 31, 2025.

🔸 Binance announced the delisting of TORN, WAVES, VAI, OMG, and other tokens 💀.

🔸 A US court has approved a compensation plan for FTX, where 98% of creditors will receive 118% of their claims.

💸 Financial News

🔸 US inflation dropped to 2.4% in September (the forecast was 2.3%).

🔸 China's central bank will provide $71 billion in liquidity to stimulate the economy.

🔸 A new bankruptcy record has been set in Japan since 2013.

🔐 Regulation

🔸 The US government won a lawsuit against Battle Born Investments and gained the right to manage 69,370 BTC ($4.4 billion) confiscated from Silk Road.

🔸 Gotbit CEO Alexey Andryunin was arrested in Portugal on charges of market manipulation.

🔸 The SEC has filed a lawsuit against crypto market maker Cumberland for operating without a license.

🔸 Authorities in Dubai have fined and banned seven crypto companies from operating.

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Whales have sold 30,000 BTC ($1.83 billion) over the last 3 days 🔽

Looks like "Uptober" is being postponed again 🫡

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Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd, according to HBO 😐

The main piece of evidence HBO presented is that Peter Todd left a strange comment on Satoshi's post in 2010, allegedly forgetting to switch accounts.

Peter Todd himself denies any involvement in creating BTC.

No sensational revelations this time, but at least they didn't pick any deceased crypto enthusiasts to play the role of Satoshi 🇨🇦

HBO's new documentary claims to have revealed the identity of Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. The film is titled *"Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery"* and is directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Cullen Hoback, who gained critical acclaim for his series *"Q: Into the Storm,"* which exposed the creators of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

The documentary will air next Wednesday at 2 a.m. Central European Time (CET) or 9 p.m. Eastern European Time (EET).

David Hoffman is stirring up intrigue once again. He often hints at the launch of a major project with this type of message. If we also recall the recent tease from Scroll, a very interesting scenario could be forming.

Rumors suggest he might be referring to the launch of Zora, but there hasn't been any official word from them yet. 🤷‍♂️

Gemini has announced its exit from the Canadian market. User accounts will be closed by December 31. Previously, other major platforms such as OKX, dYdX, Paxos, Bybit, and Binance also withdrew from Canada.

Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has shared his plans for the near future. His primary focus is currently on a charitable project called Giggle Academy, which he says will be a major part of his life for the next few years.

In addition to this, CZ will continue to invest actively in blockchain, decentralized technologies, AI, and biotechnology. He also mentioned that he intends to devote more time to philanthropy.

Moreover, CZ is working on writing his own book, with two-thirds already completed.

Grayscale has published a list of 20 projects that, in the company's opinion, have the greatest growth potential in the fourth quarter.

Circle has introduced a tool for on-chain regulatory compliance. The Compliance Engine service will help companies develop systems that can automatically conduct regulatory checks across various decentralized applications, wallets, and other platforms.

Kraken has completed the acquisition of the Dutch cryptocurrency broker Coin Meester B.V. With this acquisition, Kraken can now officially offer its services in several European countries, including Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, France, and Poland.

​​🤓 Coinbase announced that its wrapped Bitcoin, cbBTC, will be available on Solana.

Currently, the asset operates on Base and Ethereum.

​​🤓 **Fortune:** Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas revealed that Kamala Harris is using the Coinbase Commerce platform to accept cryptocurrency donations.

Harris' super PAC, "Future Forward," was also launched through Coinbase Commerce.

🔸 Vitalik Buterin moved $8 million worth of ETH, possibly for charitable purposes.

🔸 The Solana network underwent an update to fix a critical vulnerability 🤑

🔸 Tether will hire an additional 200 employees by mid-2025.

Tether plans to double its workforce over the next year to better comply with regulatory requirements.

The company expects its staff to reach 200 employees by mid-2025.

According to Paolo Ardoino, Tether is very cautious about expanding its workforce too aggressively.

China has begun transferring Ether from the seized wallets of the PlusToken crypto scam, which have a total balance of 789,533 ETH ($2 billion) 👀

Additionally, during the shutdown of PlusToken, Chinese police confiscated 194,775 BTC ($11.2 billion).

China is envious of Germany, which sold everything in July.

In the last 24 hours, $879 million has been liquidated.

Of this, $758 million were long positions, and $121 million were short positions.

The total outflow from spot Bitcoin ETFs amounted to $237.45 million.

The largest outflows were observed in GBTC — $45.9 million, FBTC — $104 million, and ARKB — $87.68 million.

At the same time, the total outflow from Ethereum ETFs amounted to $54.2 million. The main outflows were observed from ETHE by Grayscale.

Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial company, has announced the launch of a business that will allow individuals and enterprises to take out loans secured by Bitcoin.

The initial funding for the project will amount to $2 billion, with plans to expand operations subsequently.

Cantor Fitzgerald serves over 5,000 institutional clients worldwide.

BlackRock's head of digital assets, Robert Mitchnick, stated that the company does not plan to launch other cryptocurrency ETFs. VanEck's CEO holds 30% of his personal investment portfolio in BTC.

🔸 The EU has sent Ukraine the first tranche of €1.5 billion obtained from frozen Russian assets 🇺🇦

🔸 Bloomberg: The Michigan Pension Fund bought a Bitcoin ETF worth $7.4 million

🔸 The Bank of Russia has raised the key interest rate by 2% – to 18%

🔸 The Russian authorities have approved experimental cryptocurrency trading on exchanges under the control of the Central Bank

💸 Mt.Gox Ready to Dump Bitcoin

20 minutes ago, 42,587 BTC ($2.85 billion) were transferred from the Mt.Gox wallet. They are likely preparing to transfer to an exchange.

Today's key event — ETH ETF trading; the Mt.Gox bitcoins are of little interest to anyone.

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Finally: The listing of the ETH ETF will take place on July 23.

Bloomberg promptly delivered new FUD: The UK may sell $5 billion worth of bitcoins!

Telegram will open a mini-app store this month and launch a built-in Web3 browser.

Solana has a serious competitor in the meme token mania!

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