BREAKING: 🇸🇬 SINGAPORE REGULATOR REQUESTS BANKS TO REPORT THEIR CRYPTOS. 👀

Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said banks must:

🔸 Inventory all cryptos; deadline to be set later this year.

🔸 Prioritize migration of 'vulnerable' cryptos to quantum-resistant solutions.

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinArchive/status/2082088285418004966

NEW: 🇷🇺 Bank of Russia says it has drafted "first regulations to launch cryptocurrency market in Russia." 👀

"The Bank of Russia has created conditions for organised trading in digital currencies and digital rights."

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2082107138621534284

JUST IN: 🟠 Publicly traded AI data center provider Core Scientific $CORZ increased its holdings by 301 #Bitcoin and now holds a total of 848 BTC.

Bitcoin 100 Ranking: 49

Source: https://x.com/BTCtreasuries/status/2082103907225055480

BULLISH: 🟠 Investment bank The Benchmark Company's analyst Mark Palmer just said that Metaplanet (3350.T) will surge 85% to ¥405 ($2.47) following its launch of Metaplanet Securities.

"The market still prices Metaplanet as a passive #Bitcoin proxy while it prepares to bootstrap an entire capital market."

Source: https://x.com/BTCtreasuries/status/2082080089630716002

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Sen. Gallego and Sen. Tills are "finalizing language" for a CLARITY ACT counteroffer from the Democrats and plan to send it to the White House in the "next couple days", according to POLITICO 👀

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2082196246400229695

AMAZINIG: 🇦🇺 Brewery in Australia is using excess solar energy to power a Bitcoin mine and recycling the heat to make beer ⚡️

Source: https://x.com/SimplyBitcoin/status/2082134788958245049

US SEC Chair Paul Atkins said he is optimistic that Congress will pass the Clarity Act

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DYLAN LECLAIR: 🟠 "the market didn't even notice Saylor sold 3,500 #Bitcoin until Strategy $MSTR posted the disclosure."

"We'll look back on this as one of the reasons why $STRC trades strongly in the future."

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Source: https://x.com/BTCtreasuries/status/2082222565922353488

BULLISH: 🟠 The Bitcoin 20 (B20) ranks the top nation-states based on holdings, mining, policy, tax treatment, strategic reserves, and real-world use.

Explore each country’s profile and score breakdown in the Nation-State Bitcoin Report.

Source: https://x.com/JAN3com/status/2082225178327585247

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 American Bankers Association CEO tells CNBC "There's a lot of good in the Clarity Act" 👀

"I do think that the crypto and the banking sectors can coexist. I think we can be the crypto capital of the world."

"We're working with the Senators" on this bill.

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2082455693907374556

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto backs the new CLARITY ACT proposal sent to the White House saying:

"We feel good about the chance to resolve this issue once and for all" - POLITICO

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2082471027297149054

JUST IN: 🟠 Orange Juice co-founder Nico Lechuga explains what percentage of their cash will go into Bitcoin.

"With $10 million in cash flow, we'll apply 3x leverage and buy $30 million of BTC in that time period. We’re going to utilize leverage on the free cash flow to buy BTC."

"Even if the BTC price were to decline, we would still have the cash flow to service the debt."

Source: https://x.com/BTCtreasuries/status/2082449838701236394

🌎 The U.S. tops JAN3’s 2025 Bitcoin adoption index with a 7.42 score, followed by Bhutan and the U.K. The ranking evaluates government holdings, mining, policy, taxation, and real-world use.

📰 https://btctimes.com/united-states-tops-jan3s-2025-bitcoin-adoption-ranking

📣 https://x.com/BTCTimescom/status/2082529771074846867

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Major venture capital firm DCG sends letter to the Senate supporting the Clarity Act:

"We respectfully urge you to schedule a floor vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before the August recess."

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2082486576186061305

⚠️ Samson Mow urges caution on Bitcoin’s quantum-security transition, warning that a rushed upgrade could create new security and scalability risks.

📰 https://btctimes.com/samson-mow-urges-caution-as-bitcoins-quantum-security-debate-intensifies

📣 https://x.com/BTCTimescom/status/2082536882504642775

NEW: 🟠 Tether AI's new SOTA vision model for edge devices, live benchmarked against other models in the same class 👑

Read more: https://qvac.tether.io/blog/visionpsy-nano-state-of-the-art-vision-ai-in-its-weight-class-small-enough-to-run-on-your-phone/

Source: https://x.com/paoloardoino/status/2082447579707572374

LAWRENCE LEPARD: 🟠 "If Bitcoin goes to zero, fine... There's no way I'm abandoning this movement because I believe the movement's more than just about making money. The movement's about fixing the goddamn money, which is really broken and has ruined our world."

"If you see something that you know will make the world a better place, it's incumbent upon all of us to try and convince our neighbors. Because this is how good ideas spread."

Source: https://x.com/SimplyBitcoin/status/2082529901651829002

NOLAN BAUERLE: 🟠 "Satoshi Nakamoto, when he created Bitcoin, actually did something even more fundamental with cryptography... It's that he put cryptographic keys directly into people's hands."

"We live in a digital world. Putting keys in people's hands is almost akin to putting a magic wand into the hands of individuals."

"Eliminates almost all the need for a lot of the third party architecture that you see built around us from the digital age and the fiat age."

Source: https://x.com/SimplyBitcoin/status/2082073590338302396