📊👀 #ETF Capital Is Rotating

Newly launched $XRP and $SOL ETFs continue to attract institutional capital - holdings are steadily growing, already crossing 1% of circulating supply.

Against this backdrop, $BTC ETF holdings have declined from 6.84% to 6.18%, and $ETH from 5.49% to 4.48%.

🇺🇸📊 $2 Trillion Morgan Stanley Files for US Bank Charter to Custody Crypto Assets.

🤔 Crypto Firm Paradigm to Expand Into AI, Robotics With New Fund: WSJ

Crypto Firm Paradigm looking to raise as much as $1.5 billion for its next fund—sources.
Paradigm to expand into AI, robotics with new fund—sources.

🎢 #BTC’s 30-day volatility just hit its highest level since March 2025.

🇺🇸⚠️ The US government officially designates AI company Anthropic a "supply chain risk." This label is typically reserved for US enemies and adversaries and has never been applied to an American company before.

🇺🇸⚠️ The US government officially designates AI company Anthropic a "supply chain risk." This label is typically reserved for US enemies and adversaries and has never been applied to an American company before.

🗓 Major Upcoming Events in March: $AVAX $CHIP $NTX $OPN $IDOS $YELLOW $DOT $LINEA $SEA $EDGE $ASTER $DIME

😱🤑 Fear & Greed Index for #ETH

🕵️ 9 hours ago, Blackrock withdrew 4,082 $BTC worth $269.41M from Coinbase.

In total, they have withdrawn 10,749 $BTC worth $717.09M from Coinbase in the past 3 days. link

🕵️ As the market declined, Machi was completely liquidated on his $ETH (25x) long position. He later opened a new $ETH (25x) long position and is now losing over $29M. link

🕵️ According to Arkham analyst Emmett Gallic, Trump Media & Technology Group disclosed in its latest 10-K filing that its Bitcoin holdings decreased from 11,542 BTC to 9,542 BTC, a reduction of approximately 2,000 BTC. The 2,000 BTC were pledged as collateral to a counterparty, which has the right to rehypothecate them, requiring the company to derecognize the assets from its balance sheet. link

🕵️ Many newly created wallets are buying $EDEL!

Wallet 0x2942 was created 2 days ago and spent 50.75 $ETH ($103K) to buy 6.7M $EDEL.

Wallet 0x7a06 was created 7 hours ago and spent 30.72 $ETH ($59K) to buy 3.17M $EDEL.

Wallet 0xd365 was created 21 hours ago, received 100K $USDC to buy $EDEL, and has already spent 17.5K $USDC to buy 973,423 $EDEL. It still holds 82.5K $USDC and may keep buying.

Address:
0x29424df72442ae33f8fbb6514ea255a294885794
0x7a064178145675babdBF1Bc4753656b73CB0E754
0xd3655c7f473358e731c4b11dd884f664b0f7f0a9

📊 According to Artemis data, Hyperliquid Strategies ($PURR) is currently the only Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) in profit, with unrealized gains of $356 million. Other related products are facing unrealized losses, with Bitmine reporting the largest loss exceeding $7.5 billion, while Strategy and others also record multi-billion-dollar unrealized losses. link

🧑‍💻 OpenAI officially reaches deal with the Pentagon to deploy its AI models for military use. #ai

🇯🇵🕵️ Former CEO of Mt. Gox proposed conducting a one-time hard fork of #BTC to recover 79,956 #BTC (~$5.2 billion) from a hacker's address for the creditors' repayment. #hack link

🇺🇸🕵️ According to Reuters, Tether has frozen approximately $4.2 billion worth of USDT linked to illicit activity, with about $3.5 billion of that amount frozen since 2023.

This week, the company assisted the U.S. Department of Justice in freezing nearly $61 million tied to "pig-butchering" scams.

USDT's total circulating supply now exceeds $180 billion. Tether can remotely freeze tokens in users' wallets upon requests from law enforcement. #regulation link

😱🤑 Fear & Greed Index for #BTC

😱🤑 Fear & Greed Index for #BTC

🇺🇸🗽 Democrats in the US Senate have requested the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Justice to investigate Binance's activities related to monitoring illegal finances. link

Day 7 — Bitcoin Mining: Difficulty, Halving & Energy

Mining is the security engine of Bitcoin.

Miners do three critical things:
🔸 Verify transactions
🔸 Bundle them into blocks
🔸 Compete to add the next block to the blockchain

🔍 What Are Miners Actually Solving?
They modify a value called a nonce until the resulting hash is lower than a target set by the network.

There is no shortcut.
It’s pure computational competition.

This is Proof of Work.

The first miner to find a valid hash:
🔸 Adds the block
🔸 Receives the block reward
🔸 Collects transaction fees

⚙️ Mining Difficulty

Bitcoin automatically adjusts mining difficulty every 2016 blocks (~2 weeks).

If blocks are found too fast → difficulty increases.
If too slow → difficulty decreases.

This keeps the average block time close to 10 minutes, regardless of total global hash power.

In 2026, mining is dominated by industrial ASIC farms, not personal computers.
🔥 The Halving Mechanism

Bitcoin has a fixed maximum supply:

21,000,000 BTC

Every 210,000 blocks (~4 years), the block reward is cut in half.

Latest milestone:
🔸 2024 halving → 3.125 BTC per block

This creates predictable, programmatic scarcity.

No central authority can change it.


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Part 2 of the previous post

⚡️ Energy Debate (2026 Context)

Mining consumes significant electricity.

Criticism:
🔸 High energy usage
🔸 Environmental concerns

Counterarguments:
🔸 Increasing renewable energy usage
🔸 Use of stranded/excess energy
🔸 Energy = security cost

Bitcoin converts electricity into network security.
Attacking the network would require enormous energy expenditure.

🎯 Key Takeaway

Mining is not just “creating coins.”

It is:
🔸 A security mechanism
🔸 A distribution system
🔸 A decentralized time-stamping process

Energy secures scarcity.
Scarcity supports value.
Consensus protects ownership.

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