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🪙 The largest American miner MARA is revising its strategy and allows for the sale of some of its bitcoins — the company currently holds 53 822 BTC, which could potentially enter the market.
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📈 In 2025, the crypto market was turned upside down — perpetual futures became the main price driver, and DEX trading volume soared by 346%.
Interest in CEX continues to decline — capital is moving on-chain, where leverage, shorts, and hedge work 24/7.
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🚓 In Los Angeles, a former police officer was found guilty of kidnapping a 17-year-old for $350,000 in BTC — along with accomplices in fake police uniforms, he broke into an apartment and, under threat, took a hard drive containing crypto assets and keys.
The ex-officer with 13 years of experience is now awaiting sentencing, which will be handed down at the end of March.
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🖥 Riot Platforms reported record annual revenue — $647 000 000, strengthening its focus on AI and high-performance computing. The company mined 5686 BTC for the year and now owns over 18 000 BTC.
Following its partnership with AMD and pressure from Starboard Value, Riot is increasingly pivoting towards AI data centers — investors believe this could generate up to $21 billion.
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🦄 New York Court rejected a class-action lawsuit against Uniswap — the platform was accused of scammers launching scam tokens and deceiving users through it.
The court ruled that the protocol itself is not responsible for the quality and integrity of projects built on its basis.
The proceedings lasted four years — and this decision became an important precedent for the entire crypto industry.
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🇹🇷 In Turkey are preparing to introduce a 10% tax on cryptocurrency income — the bill has already been submitted to parliament by the ruling party.
Platforms will be required to withhold tax quarterly from client profits, regardless of their status and residency, and the president will have the right to vary the rate from 0% to 20% depending on the asset type and ownership conditions.
A separate fee is provided for the providers themselves — 0.03% on each transaction.
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🍿 Nasdaq is entering the forecasting market and plans to launch binary options on the Nasdaq 100 index.
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⛔️ The community within a day «buried» the idea of former Mt. Gox CEO rewriting the Bitcoin code to return 79,956 BTC (over $5 billion at current prices) — Mark Karpeles proposed to "move" the coins to creditors, but developers and even some of those affected said a firm "no".
The argument is simple and strict: if you rewrite the rules once for $5 billion — then the principle "your keys = your money" will cease to be law.
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💎 Against the backdrop of intensifying geopolitical tension, gold confidently broke the mark of $5400.
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🎲 Three linked wallets earned $2 350 000 in one month (1, 2, 3) profit by betting on Polymarket only on whether the BTC price would go up or down.
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🇮🇷 Iran's state television announced the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had led the country for 37 years.
Donald Trump stated that Iran "got hit hard," calling the event "a great day for peace," and expressed the opinion that the negotiation process could now proceed more easily.
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🎲 Today, on Magamyman?tab=positions">Polymarket, an incredibly lucky trader surfaced: the account went "all-in" on markets with the outcome "US will strike Iran before March 1" — and hit the deadline exactly.
The bet closed literally a day before the attack, so the odds were astronomical — and someone's inside information (or incredible luck) turned into a very large profit.
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🤣 South Korea's tax office published the seed phrase of a confiscated wallet — from which $4 800 000 in crypto was quickly withdrawn, after initially depositing some ETH for fees.
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🐳 What percentage of a portfolio in BTC is recommended on Wall Street:
🔴 Fidelity — 2–5%
🔴 Bank of America — 1–4%
🔴 Morgan Stanley — 0–4%
🔴 BlackRock — 1–2%
🔴 WisdomTree — 0.5–1.5%
🔴 JPMorgan Chase — 0.5–1%
In general, large financial institutions view Bitcoin as a small diversification addition to a portfolio, not its foundation.
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🔮 Co-founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales does not believe in "the death of Bitcoin": according to him, the network is quite resilient and will survive even a 51% attack — through a fork, it will simply continue to live.
But he does not believe in its role as the money of the future. His prediction is harsh: by 2050, BTC could be worth less than $10,000 in today's prices — and possibly much lower.
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🎠 1inch rolled out a major update — a separate Trading Mode with limit orders and classic swaps with gas and slippage settings has appeared, and Pro has been officially relaunched as a terminal with updated UX/UI and expanded order history.
And most importantly — speed: swaps are almost 2 times faster, median execution time decreased from 26 to 14 seconds, and a quarter of transactions close in less than 9 seconds.
Cross-chain swaps are now executed in seconds instead of minutes, while remaining fully non-custodial.
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🇪🇺 The European Central Bank is sounding the alarm — the growing popularity of stablecoins could drain deposits from banks and weaken lending to the economy.
In a new report, the ECB notes that the more actively people transfer money into digital "dollars" and "euros", the more difficult it becomes for banks to issue loans and conduct monetary policy.
Simply put, stablecoins are gradually taking a bite out of the traditional banking system — and the regulator doesn't like that at all.
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🇷🇺 The Russian Ministry of Finance suggested that stablecoins may receive separate regulation and be classified as "digital currency", not cryptocurrency.
Officials recognize their special nature and potential, therefore they do not rule out a separate bill after the launch of basic crypto regulation, scheduled for July 1, 2026.
In the current version of the document, the concept of stablecoins is completely absent.
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🕊 White hat hacker returned $1.84 million out of $2.26 million stolen during the hack of the decentralized lottery Foom Cash — he found a critical error in the protocol and managed to freeze part of the funds on the Base network, for which he received a reward of $320,000.
The vulnerability arose due to a missed "shuffling" stage for applications, which allowed the specialist to falsify data and declare himself the winner.
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🎰 Pump․Fun is no longer just about launching shitcoins — now you can trade third-party tokens inside.
They added WBTC (Wormhole), ETH (Wormhole), USDC, PUMP, GIGA, PENGU and other coins.
The more assets in the app, the fewer reasons to close it. Gambling is now non-stop 🚬
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🇮🇷 Cryptocurrency outflow from Iran's largest exchange Nobitex increased by 700% immediately after the US and Israel attack.
It is worth noting that in 2025 Nobitex processed $7.2 billion, and the exchange's audience exceeds 11 million people.
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🐋 Strategy bought an additional 3015 BTC at an average price of $67,700 per 1 BTC — now the company's balance is 720,737 BTC, bought for $54.77 billion at an average price of $75,985.
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🔮 Users of Kalshi suddenly found themselves in the red after the platform, for ethical reasons, canceled the market related to the "resignation" of Iran's supreme leader **Ali Khamenei**.
Trading was frozen amidst reports of his death, and the CEO promised to roll back trades and compensate fees, stating that the platform does not allow profiting from anyone's death.
Despite assurances, some traders have already complained about losses — the prediction market once again reminded that even "bets on politics" can end with an unexpected stop.
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🪙 The restaurant chain Steak ’n Shake has started paying employees a bonus in BTC — a fixed $0.21 per hour of work.
This is one of the first such programs in the U.S., aimed at integrating cryptocurrency into payroll.
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🤣 A Slovak developer shoved a 66 KB image directly into a Bitcoin transaction — without Taproot, without OP_RETURN, and without all the "restrictions" that BIP-110 proposes.
Inside is a TIFF with a crying Luke Dash Jr. (one of the main proponents of BIP-110) and subtle trolling of the idea of fighting "spam" at the consensus level.
The experiment showed a simple thing: if someone wants to write something to the blockchain, they will find a way — a soft fork is not a panacea.
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📊 By the end of February, Bitcoin fell by 15% — the fifth negative month in a row.
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📉 Today, the USA and Israel launched strikes on Iran — the crypto market reacted with a fall as usual.
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💸 PayPal launches "stablecoin builder", together with MoonPay, they introduced PYUSDx — a platform for issuing their own dollar stablecoins based on PYUSD.
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🖥 The largest public US miner MARA Holdings reported a loss of $1.7 billion for Q4 2025 — compared to a profit of $528 million a year earlier.
The main impact came from the revaluation of Bitcoin reserves amid the falling exchange rate; while hashrate grew to 66.4 EH/s, mining decreased, and the cost of electricity per BTC increased to $48,611.
Despite the weak report, shares rose by more than 15% after the announcement of the launch of a joint AI project with Starwood Capital Group for the construction of data centers with a capacity of up to 2.5 GW.
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🪙 Solana currently controls 49% of the market for micropayments between AI agents based on the x402 protocol.
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