🕵️ 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
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
🇺🇸🕵️ 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
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
🇺🇸🗽 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
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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.
#Education #Crypto #SignalsToday
@Signals2day
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.
#Education #Crypto #SignalsToday
@Signals2day
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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.
#Education #Crypto #SignalsToday
@Signals2day
⚡️ 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.
#Education #Crypto #SignalsToday
@Signals2day
💸 $100,000,000 worth of crypto longs liquidated in the past 15 minutes, following Israeli strike on Iran.
🛡️ According to CNN, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that Israel launched a “preemptive strike” against Iran on Saturday morning. The government has declared a nationwide state of emergency due to concerns over potential Iranian retaliation involving drones and ballistic missiles. link
🥷 Trader Vivaldi007 joined Polymarket on February 8, betting on a potential U.S. and Israel attack on Iran. After initially losing on nearly every possible date, he has now turned it around with Israel's recent strike on Iran, resulting in a total profit of $385K. #hack link