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🇺🇿 Uzbekistan has significantly increased state fees for cryptocurrency market participants:
🔴 For exchanges: from $21 000 to $2.1 million;
🔴 For exchangers: from $5 300 to $108 300;
🔴 For custodial services: up to $201 100;
🔴 For mining pools: up to $85 100.
The regulator stated that the new fees aim to protect the market from fraudulent projects. The country has licensed two exchanges, three custodial services, and nine exchangers.
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🇧🇹 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) met with the King of Bhutan (the King is on the left).
The Bhutanese government currently holds 12 202 BTC ($1.2 billion).
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🇺🇸 Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the Fed is "not allowed to own Bitcoin."
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🪙 Never before has there been so much potential (unrealized) profit in BTC — $1.3 trillion.
On average, each BTC is now worth $68 382 more than when it was acquired.
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🇩🇪 The German financial conglomerate Deutsche Bank is creating its own L2 network based on ZKsync technology.
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🇳🇬 In Nigeria, 792 people were arrested on suspicion of participating in a large-scale cryptocurrency fraud scheme (crypto romance scam) based on social engineering and personal relationships with victims.
The arrests took place on December 10 in Lagos, where fake investment schemes were being created. Among those detained were 148 Chinese nationals, 40 Filipinos, and Nigerians who recruited victims from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The scammers used phishing and social media to extort money through fake investment opportunities.
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⚡️ MicroStrategy has acquired 15 350 BTC for $1.5 billion at $100 386 per Bitcoin.
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🚕 A scammer posed as a requested Uber driver. Claiming that his phone had been hacked, he took passengers' phones and transferred cryptocurrency from their wallets. In total, he stole around $300 000 from two victims.
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✖️ Drake's Twitter account, with 39 million followers, was hacked to promote a Solana-based shitcoin.
The token's trading volume peaked at $5 million, but the number of affected users remains unknown.
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🪙 MicroStrategy has been officially added to the Nasdaq 100 index.
The index includes the 100 largest non-financial companies by market capitalization whose securities are traded on the Nasdaq exchange.
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🪙 In 2024, Binance attracted $21.7 billion in user deposits, 36% more than the combined total of the 10 largest exchanges.
The platform's user base grew to 250 million, compared to 60 million on Bybit, the second-largest exchange by trading volume.
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🗽 Trump says we will be «doing something great with crypto».
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🪙 14 years since Satoshi Nakamoto's disappearance
On December 12, 2010, the creator of Bitcoin, known under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, posted his final message on the BitcoinTalk forum. In it, he discussed issues related to DoS attacks on the network.
Since then, Nakamoto has vanished without a trace, leaving behind a mystery that continues to intrigue the crypto community to this day.
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🕵️♂️ User fell victim to scammers, giving away 80.7 SolvBTC (wrapped Bitcoin) worth $7 800 000 by signing a phishing transaction.
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🪙 Ripple has received final approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services to launch its own stablecoin, RLUSD.
Initially, RLUSD will be issued on the XRP Ledger and Ethereum blockchains.
Many analysts view Ripple's stablecoin as a direct competitor to USDT and USDC.
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🔥 Marathon has acquired 15 574 BTC for $1.53 billion at $98 529 per Bitcoin.
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🇸🇻 El Salvador has reached a $1.4 billion loan agreement with the IMF — Bitcoin adoption will become voluntary, and the government will reduce its involvement in BTC-related projects.
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🏡 The famous Bitcoin Family sold their $300 000 house for 100 BTC in 2017 — and today, they could buy it back for just 4 BTC (adjusted for inflation).
«If we had kept $300,000 in a bank account since 2017, we wouldn’t be able to buy the house back».
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🇨🇳 The Chinese company Cango, specializing in automotive services, has unexpectedly become the third-largest Bitcoin miner in the world.
The company plans to spend around $400 million on purchasing Antminer S19 XPs. This will allow it to reach Marathon’s total hashrate level if the deal for an additional 18 EH/s is completed.
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📊 U.S. Bitcoin ETFs have surpassed Gold ETFs in assets under management (AUM).
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🪙 The CEO of CryptoQuant stated that MicroStrategy would only face bankruptcy if an asteroid hit the Earth, as Bitcoin has never traded below the average purchase price of long-term investors. Currently, this level stands at approximately $30 000.
With MicroStrategy's debt at $7 billion, the value of their BTC holdings is estimated at $46 billion.
Even if we consider only the value of the company's coins, liquidation would occur only if Bitcoin's price dropped to $16 500.
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🇹🇭 Bitcoin may gain legal tender status in Thailand — The country's Prime Minister has instructed the Ministry of Finance to establish a dedicated "sandbox."
Authorities are also exploring the possibility of issuing stablecoins as an alternative to printing banknotes.
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📈 According to statistics, the strategy is simple: buy Bitcoin 500 days before the halving, hold it without taking any action, and sell it 500 days after the halving.
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📊 The number of daily active cryptocurrency users reached 18.7 million in December, marking a 143% increase since the beginning of the year.
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🇺🇸 The United States has sentenced a person to two years in prison for tax evasion on cryptocurrency income for the first time.
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🪙 The market capitalization of Tether's USDT stablecoin has exceeded $140 billion.
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💭 Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) shared valuable advice for startups:
«Instead of endless pitches and selfies at conferences, focus on building a minimum viable product (MVP)».
He encouraged startups to skip the empty talk and showcase real achievements — a good product speaks for itself.
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🇨🇳 On the homepage of Alipay, China's largest payment platform with over 1 billion users,Han advertisement for cryptocurrency funds has appeared.
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🇮🇳 India is preparing for a shift to a CBDC-based economy — the country's central bank is confident that the digital rupee could completely replace the "inconvenient" (hard-to-track) paper economy in the future.
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🔥 Microsoft shareholders vote against Bitcoin investment proposal.
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