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🪙 Auction for Silk Road founder's prison mementos, artwork raises $1,800,000 in BTC.
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💎 Ethereum Pectra upgrade is largely benefitting crypto theft gangs
Hackers are using a new Ethereum feature from the Pectra upgrade to drain crypto from wallets with stolen private keys — over 100,000 smart contracts were tied to this activity.
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🪙 Just Fun Fact: The first Bitcoin conference was held 15 years ago
On August 2011, the Bitcoin community took a historic step forward with the world’s first Bitcoin conference held in New York City.
At the time of the conference, one Bitcoin was selling for around $11, with a little more than 7 million coins in circulation and an average of 8000 nodes actively accepting 7000 Bitcoin transactions a day.
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🪙 The Texas BTC Reserve Bill, having passed its final Senate review, is now awaiting the governor's approval
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🪙 Meliuz, a publicly traded Brazilian firm, seeks to secure $26.5M for BTC investments
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🪙 A Chinese government-supported research institute is exploring Bitcoin as a reserve asset
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⚡️ The sBUIDL initiative by BlackRock integrates US Treasury securities into blockchain, linking decentralized finance (DeFi) with tangible real-world assets
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💎 TON Blockchain: USDe and tsUSDe are now live on TON
🔄 Earlier: Partnership.
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🔥 Sony’s online bank launches new crypto unit
The new company will have a capitalization of ¥300,000,000, fully funded by Sony Bank, and is scheduled to be established in June 2025.
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🪙 Panama City mayor says canal should give Bitcoin-paying ships faster access
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❕ Over $725,000,000 liquidated from the crypto market in the past 24 hours.
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⚡️ SEC says crypto staking on PoS* networks is not a securities
Staking activities and related services are classified as administrative or ministerial rather than entrepreneurial.
* — Proof-of-stake is a blockchain consensus mechanism for processing transactions and creating new blocks.
🪙 Michael Saylor: “If you invest in Bitcoin on your balance sheet, there’s a 90% chance over 5 years it will succeed”.
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📣 How a dentist can be a billionaire with Bitcoin...
📣 “The more individuals, corporations, governments, institutions, cities, leaders embrace Bitcoin… the more likely the human race is to succeed”.
📣 Saylor touts Bitcoin as "perfected capital", highlights equity strategy
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🪙 CNBC: Companies have unveiled Bitcoin buying strategies, but they’re not getting the same kind of treatment as Strategy₿
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🔽 Arkham: James Wynn has been fully liquidated, current balance $16.28
🔄 Earlier: Other liquidations.
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⚡️ After the vote passed, locked Sui funds were securely transferred to a multisig wallet managed by Cetus, Sui Foundation, and OtterSec
🔄 Earlier: Cetus commits to reimbursing every user impacted by the security breach in full.
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⚡️ FTX initiates second phase of creditor repayments
🔄 Earlier: FTX recovery trust to distribute more than $5B to creditors.
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🪙 Trump Media finalizes deal to hold BTC in its treasury
🔄 Earlier: Trump Media holding raised $2,5B to purchase.
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🪙 Michael Saylor: "Bank of England on the brink of buying BTC".
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📣 Vice President JD Vance about crypto: “A dictatorial government shouldn’t restrict industries from making their own decisions”.
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⚡️ Bank of Italy governor said MiCA has had a limited impact on the adoption of compliant stablecoins in Europe, strengthening the need for the digital euro
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❕ Top House Democrat calls for investigation into private dinner for TRUMP coin buyers
Jamie Raskin has demanded Trump reveal a list of who attended his private dinner last week for major investors in his meme coin.
"Publication of this list will also let the American people know who is putting tens of millions of dollars into our President’s pocket..." — Raskin said.
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🪙 Wall Street Cantor Fitzgerald to launch gold-backed Bitcoin fund
Brandon Lutnick, chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald: "There are still people on the Earth that are still scared of bitcoin, and we want to bring them into this ecosystem".
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📣 Gareth Jenkinson, Cointelegraph managing editor:
"One of the unexpected highlights of Bitcoin 2025 was chatting to Peter Schiff.
He gets us Bitcoiners riled up real good, but he makes for great conversation.
Also admitted his little Bitcoin reserve is safely in self-custody — he's still hodling!"
⚡️ Thailand SEC announced that it will block several cryptocurrency exchanges
The Thailand SEC announced that it will block Bybit, 1000X, CoinEx, OKX and XT platforms on June 28, and initiate legal proceedings against them for being unlicensed digital asset business operators.
🔄 Earlier: Thailand to let tourists use crypto.
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❕ Arkham: James Wynn has just been liquidated for $100,000,000
🔄 Earlier: BTC long, BTC short.
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⚡️ Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road founder, makes his first public appearance on the stage after his release
📣 "I'm free, and this is because of you".
📣 Ulbricht says buying a whole Bitcoin was less than $1 when he launched Silk Road and now it’s worth over $100,000 each.
📣 “I believe in 3 principles — Freedom, Decentralization, and Unity”.
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⚡️ Binance US: USD services are live
"Effective immediately, all customers can now deposit USD and buy crypto using bank transfer (ACH).
Case closed: Binance US is officially back!" — says official account.
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