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🍕 15 years ago, on May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz bought two Papa John’s pizzas for 10 000 BTC — since then, the crypto community has celebrated Bitcoin Pizza Day.
On the BitcoinTalk forum, he asked if anyone could exchange 10 000 BTC ($25 at the time) for two pizzas, and four days later he announced that the deal had been completed.
Today, 10 000 BTC is worth $1.1 billion.
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🔥 Bitcoin reaches new all-time high.
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🏦 Circle co-founder raised $18 000 000 to build an “AI-native” bank:
🔴 Most operations will be carried out by AI, under human supervision.
🔴 It’s expected that AI agents will handle the majority of economic transactions in the future.
🔴 According to the team, traditional financial systems aren’t ready for this future — they’re slow, expensive, and inflexible.
🔴 The project has already introduced an open-source toolkit for building AI agents with verifiable identity.
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⚖️ The SEC has filed a lawsuit against crypto company Unicoin and its executives, accusing them of a $100 million fraud.
The company raised funds by claiming its token was backed by real estate, but the deals were never finalized, and the property values were significantly inflated.
In promotional materials, investors were promised returns of up to 9 000 000%, with comparisons to the early days of Bitcoin.
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🖥 Microsoft has integrated blockchain data into its Fabric analytics platform — developers can now access real-time, verifiable data from networks like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others directly within Microsoft Azure.
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🛰 The Filecoin Foundation, in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, successfully tested satellite data transmission using IPFS — the InterPlanetary File System.
This marks the first real step toward a decentralized internet beyond Earth. The technology can be used in areas where traditional internet access is unavailable — such as the Moon, Mars, or remote regions on Earth.
Lockheed Martin, a key contractor for NASA and the Pentagon, is participating in the project.
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🪙 Strategy has acquired 7 390 BTC for ~$764.9 million at ~$103 498 per Bitcoin.
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🔮 Arthur Hayes shared his new market predictions. Key points:
🔴 Target BTC price by the end of 2025: around $250 000.
🔴 Altcoin season will begin this summer or early Q3.
🔴 Ethereum's growth may outperform Solana over the next 18–24 months of the bull market.
🔴 Bitcoin will reach $1 million before the end of Trump's term.
🔴 Gold makes up about 20% of his personal investment portfolio.
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🇯🇵 Japanese company Metaplanet has additionally acquired 1 004 BTC — the company now holds a total of 7 800 BTC ($803 000 000).
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🎰 A user opened a long position with 40x leverage worth $276 000 000 at the $103 129 level.
The liquidation price is set at $95 000.
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🇺🇸 The government of Tinian Island (Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory) will become the first U.S. public entity to issue a dollar-backed stablecoin.
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🇸🇦 The Central Bank of Saudi Arabia has disclosed ownership of $10 000 000 worth of Strategy shares.
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❄️ Analysts have discovered a delay between the request to freeze an address and the actual execution of the freeze in the USDT smart contract.
Criminals exploited this gap to withdraw over $78 million across the Ethereum and Tron networks.
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🦊 Rumors are swirling once again that MetaMask is about to launch its own token — something first hinted at back in 2021, when a ConsenSys co-founder mentioned the possibility. Since then, similar news has surfaced more than once — but the token still hasn’t materialized.
Recently, one of MetaMask’s co-founders confirmed the idea is still on the table, but no decisions have been made. Any official updates will come through MetaMask’s own channels — don’t fall for fakes.
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🇯🇵 Satoshi Nakamoto statue spotted in Japan.
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🇺🇸 Texas has passed a law to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve.
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong passes stablecoin bill to establish licensing regime amid global competition.
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🔫 An American tourist lost over $123 000 in cryptocurrency (XRP and Bitcoin) after getting into a fake Uber in London.
The incident happened on the night of May 9 after he left a nightclub in Soho. The driver knew the victim’s name and pretended to be the Uber he ordered. It was later revealed that the tourist was drugged and robbed.
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🪙 Ethereum co-founder Jeffrey Wilcke has transferred 105 736 ETH (worth $262 million) to the Kraken exchange.
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🪙 Binance has asked the court to dismiss FTX’s $1.76 billion lawsuit, calling it “legally baseless.” The exchange’s lawyers argue that FTX is trying to shift blame for its collapse onto Binance and CZ.
They also claim that the U.S. court lacks jurisdiction since Binance is registered outside the United States.
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🪙 Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, is holding informal acquisition talks with Coinbase and Ripple.
Ripple reportedly offered $4–5 billion (partly in XRP), but the proposal was rejected.
Circle values itself at no less than $5 billion and is also preparing for an IPO, which may be delayed due to market uncertainty.
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🇫🇷 Digital bank Revolut is investing $1.1 billion into the French economy and will apply for a banking license.
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💸 A class action lawsuit has been filed against crypto exchange Coinbase for collecting biometric data without consent — users were not informed about the purposes or retention periods of the faceprint data collected during KYC and shared with third-party companies.
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🇬🇧 Starting in 2026, all crypto companies in the UK will be required to collect and report detailed user and transaction data to tax authorities — regulations are tightening.
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🇸🇬 Singapore-based medical company Basel Medical Group Ltd has announced plans to acquire $1 billion worth of BTC.
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🍟 The American restaurant chain Steak N Shake has started accepting BTC as payment via the Lightning Network.
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🇨🇳 Chinese clothing manufacturer Addentax Group Corp plans to purchase $800 million worth of Bitcoin and the meme token TRUMP.
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☠️ Coinbase lost up to $400 000 000 due to a recent data breach (covering investigation costs, compensation, and enhanced security) — hackers gained access to customer information by bribing overseas call center employees.
The company refused to pay the ransom and pledged to reimburse affected users. Less than 1% of customers were impacted, and no passwords or funds were compromised.
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🇧🇭 The restaurant chain Al Abraaj from Bahrain has become the first publicly listed company in the Middle East to adopt Bitcoin as part of its corporate treasury strategy.
The company has purchased BTC and plans to continue increasing its holdings. The goal is to create a Sharia-compliant vehicle for accessing Bitcoin in the Islamic world.
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🪙 UK-based fund Abraxas Capital purchased 242 652 ETH worth $561 million in just one week.
The company also borrowed additional USDT to continue buying Ethereum.
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