🇺🇸📈 $123 billion U.S. Virginia State Retirement Fund increased its position in Bitcoin treasury company Strategy $MSTR by 7,180 to 31,880 shares ($4.1 million). link

📌 Day 4: Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake

Blockchains need a way to agree on what’s true.
This system is called consensus.

The two main types are:

🔸Proof of Work (PoW) – used by Bitcoin

🔸Proof of Stake (PoS) – used by Ethereum

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Part 2 of the previous post

🔹 Proof of Work

Miners compete to solve a difficult math puzzle.

The winner:

🔸Adds the next block

🔸Receives a reward

Security comes from real-world energy cost.
To attack the network, you would need enormous computing power and electricity.

🔹 Proof of Stake

Instead of using energy, validators lock up (stake) their own coins.

If they cheat:

🔸They lose part of their staked funds.

Security comes from financial risk.

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Part 3 of the previous post

🔹 The Key Difference

PoW → Security through energy
PoS → Security through locked capital

Bitcoin uses PoW.
Ethereum uses PoS.

Both aim to protect decentralization — but in different ways.

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🤝 Kraken Acquires Token Manager Magna As Crypto Exchange Prepares For IPO: Fortune

📊 Feb 18 Update:

Bitcoin ETFs:
1D NetFlow: -1,878 $BTC (-$127.65M)
7D NetFlow: -11,901 $BTC (-$808.77M)

Ethereum ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +27,096 $ETH (+$54.14M)
7D NetFlow: -95,009 $ETH (-$189.83M)

Solana ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +27,260 $SOL (+$2.26M)
7D NetFlow: +75,866 $SOL (+$6.3M) link

🐳 Whale 0x09e8 just sold 977 $XAUT for $4.86M at $4,971. He bought it 2 weeks ago, making a profit of only $9,115. link

🐳 As $WLFI rises, whale 0x9b3b, who is long 42.47M $WLFI ($5.33M), has turned a loss into a profit. The whale went from being down over $1M to now being up $65K. link

🕵️ Bitcoin Supply Stagnation Signals Market Demotivation

Bitcoin’s active supply has stopped growing.

Fewer coins are moving across the network, indicating slowed activity and reflecting a shift in sentiment. When prices weaken and uncertainty rises, participants become less willing to act, leading to a quieter network as holders stop moving coins.

This period of social demotivation on-chain showcases emotional fatigue, reduced engagement, and a lack of conviction among market participants. Behavior often changes before narratives do.

🗣 Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says he owns a small amount of #BTC but is watching it closely.

🐳 A whale "0x049" deposited $1.765M in $USDC into HyperLiquid and opened $ETH and $BTC long positions with 20x leverage.

Current stats:

- 9,411.33 $ETH ($18.59M)
- 260.11 $BTC ($17.49M) link

🚀 President Trump's son Eric says he has never been more bullish on bitcoin. He believes it could reach $1 million, acknowledging that there will be volatility with an asset that has tremendous upside.

🤔 #WLFI Apex Group is collaborating with World Liberty Financial to pilot launch the stablecoin #USD1 as a payment system in traditional fund operations.

As part of the collaboration, Apex will explore the possibility of placing tokenized WLFI assets on the Digital Market Infrastructure platform of the London Stock Exchange. WLFI plans to develop a mobile application that links bank accounts with digital asset wallets. #stablecoin

⚖️ Epic: A solo miner running a node just found a Bitcoin block.

~$212,000 in rewards and fees.

No venture funding.
No industrial farm.

Just sovereignty and a bit of luck. link

🧑‍💻 #OP Coinbase is moving away from the Optimism Stack and creating its own network.

🇺🇸🧑‍💻 Hyperliquid Launches Hyperliquid Policy Center, Allocates 1M HYPE Tokens (~$29M) to Engage U.S. Regulators link

📊👀 $BTC Realized Profits-to-Value (30D MA) has retraced sharply, unwinding much of the prior profit-taking impulse. However, it remains above the historical capitulation band.

This suggests profit realization is cooling, but not yet broad capitulation.

🕵️ Pineapple Financial has released a new dashboard showcasing that it has accumulated over 7 million $INJ tokens to date. This represents 7% of the total supply of Injective. link

🤝 #MORPHO Coinbase adds XRP, DOGE, ADA, and LTC as collateral for blockchain loans through Morpho. link

🤔 OpenAI, in collaboration with Paradigm, has introduced EVMBench, a tool for evaluating the efficiency of agents using smart contracts. #ai

🗽 OpenAI launches benchmarking system to help secure crypto tokens and smart contracts. #ai