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🇧🇷 Brazil has just seen the largest theft in its history: hackers stole $140 million in just 3 hours, paying only $2700 for access to the Pix banking system.
A bribed IT employee handed over internal infrastructure keys, allowing the attackers to drain reserve accounts from six banks — with around $40 million later laundered into BTC, ETH, and USDT via OTC platforms.
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🪙 In India, an engineer operating a darknet marketplace under the alias "Ketamelon" was arrested for laundering drug proceeds using Monero and sourcing narcotics from a UK supplier.
During the operation, police seized LSD, ketamine, and cryptocurrency worth $82 000. The investigation uncovered over 600 drug deliveries across the country, and Edison was considered a leading darknet vendor in India.
Experts note that while privacy coins enhance anonymity, they do not provide complete protection from tracking.
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💤 Two Bitcoin wallets have moved 20 000 BTC after 14 years of inactivity — back in 2011, the user purchased the coins for $7 800, and today their value has soared to $2.18 billion.
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🇺🇸 The U.S. has passed Donald Trump's budget bill dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill” — it includes the largest tax cuts in American history and raises the national debt ceiling by $5 trillion.
Trump has already congratulated the nation and is reportedly planning a celebration at the White House. Elon Musk commented that only AI and robots can save the U.S. from bankruptcy now.
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🇨🇳 Chinese tech giants JDcom and Ant Group are planning to launch a stablecoin backed by the offshore yuan — an idea that has already received positive feedback in closed-door meetings with the People's Bank of China.
The goal is to promote the yuan in international trade and reduce reliance on USDT.
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🇷🇺 The Russian state corporation Rostec plans to launch its own token, RUBx, and a payment platform called RT-Pay later this year.
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🪙 Ripple is seeking a U.S. banking license and has already submitted the necessary application.
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🇮🇹 Italian bank Banca Sella, founded in 1886, is currently conducting internal testing of cryptocurrency custody services — a custodial crypto service is expected to launch soon.
Last year, the bank began offering cryptocurrency trading services to its clients.
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🇪🇺 European financial giants are launching the first licensed euro stablecoin, EURAU, fully compliant with the MiCA regulation.
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🪙 An Ethereum ICO participant sold 501 ETH today — he originally purchased 16,000 ETH for $4 960 during the ICO and later bought an additional 804 ETH from exchanges for $369 000 in 2017.
Since April 2021, he has sold 14 394 ETH ($50 million) at an average price of $3 482 and still holds 2 410 ETH ($5.85 million).
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🧠 CZ donated $10 000 000 in BNB to Vitalik Buterin to support his open-source biotech initiative — focused on advancing decentralized research in biotech and medicine, from drug discovery to genetics, without corporate or closed-fund control.
Previously, Vitalik's biotech projects also received backing from YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs).
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🇩🇪 Deutsche Bank plans to launch a crypto custody service in 2026.
Germany’s largest banking group, Sparkassen, also announced it will roll out crypto trading for select clients in summer 2026.
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⚒️ Mining company American Bitcoin, backed by Eric Trump, has raised $220 000 000 to purchase BTC and mining equipment.
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🪙 Circle applies for US National Trust Bank license.
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🇪🇸 Spanish police, with the support of Europol, have uncovered an international crypto fraud scheme worth $540 million, which has victimized over 5 000 people.
The scammers persuaded victims to invest in non-existent crypto assets. The operation had been running since 2023 across Spain, Estonia, France, and the United States.
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🪙 Over the past year, Bitcoin whales have sold a total of around 500 000 BTC, according to Bloomberg. The main buyers have been ETFs, major corporations, and asset managers, who collectively acquired approximately 900 000 BTC and now control nearly 25% of the total supply in circulation.
Capital is shifting toward institutions — Bitcoin is becoming less volatile and more predictable.
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🇨🇳 Chinese chipmaker Nano Labs has purchased $50 million worth of BNB for its balance sheet and is reportedly considering acquiring up to 10% of BNB’s total circulating supply.
Earlier, Nano Labs also added 600 BTC to its holdings.
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🍀 A solo miner has successfully mined a Bitcoin block, earning 3.173 BTC (around $349 000) as a reward.
With the miner's hashrate, the chances of finding a block were approximately 1 in 25,000 — that's just a 0.004% probability.
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🇧🇷 Tether, the issuer of USDT, will start mining Bitcoin in Brazil using renewable energy sources.
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🪙 Yesterday, Elon Musk liked a tweet where a user suggested that he might be secretly accumulating Bitcoin.
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🇺🇸 In addition to applying for a banking license, Ripple has also submitted an application to open a master account with the U.S. Federal Reserve.
A master account at the Federal Reserve is a special account that financial institutions open directly with the U.S. central bank. It provides access to essential financial services, such as interbank settlements, participation in the Fed’s payment systems, and other functions typically available only to licensed banks.
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🇨🇳 Chinese company Addentax Group has signed a non-binding agreement to acquire up to 12 000 BTC from a major holder.
The deal is valued at $1.3 billion — it's not final yet, but it's a significant move toward large-scale crypto investment.
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🤖 Amazon is already using 1 000 000 robots — each one does the work of 24 people.
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🇪🇹 Ethiopia is facing a growing power shortage due to a crypto mining boom — data centers linked to mining are consuming over 8 TWh, accounting for around 30% of the country's total electricity usage.
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🪙 Cannabis company Dogecoin Cash (formerly Cannabis Sativa) is launching a subsidiary, Dogecoin Treasury Inc., to build a DOGE reserve and develop related projects.
Plans include the creation of Dogecoin Protocol, a platform that will unify all of the company’s DOGE initiatives.
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⚡ I will consider the deportation of Elon Musk from the U.S. — Donald Trump
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🌕 In 2012, Bitcointalk user JohnGalt bought a Casascius Bitcoin bar containing 100 BTC for $500. On May 13, 2025, he finally decrypted the private key and cashed out the bitcoins for around $10 million.
He said he had hesitated for years due to the bar’s collectible value and the pressure of holding something so valuable, but the soaring price of BTC ultimately pushed him to act.
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🇺🇸 Connecticut officially bans the state from creating a Bitcoin Reserve or investing any digital assets.
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🪙 XRP Ledger's Ethereum-compatible sidechain launches on mainnet.
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🪙 Strategy has acquired 4980 BTC for $531.9 million at $106 801 per Bitcoin.
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