🪙 Monero has once again taken the lead in the privacy crypto sector, approaching its all-time high amid ongoing issues in the Zcash ecosystem.

XMR recently broke $460 — just 15% below its 2015 peak of $542 — and has been outperforming its competitors for several weeks.

This current momentum reverses the trend from the second half of 2025, when the market favored Zcash while Monero faced technical and reputational challenges.

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🖥 Superheat has unveiled an electric water heater with a built-in ASIC miner: while heating water, the device mines Bitcoin and partially offsets utility costs.

The 50-gallon tank costs around $2 000 and consumes the same amount of energy as a standard water heater.

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🪙 CZ: While you were panicking and selling, American banks were loading up on Bitcoin.

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🖥 A miner said that with 27 ASIC machines his current revenue is about $4800 per month (0.053019 BTC), while net profit after electricity and hosting costs is just over $1000.

Over 3.5 years, mining delivered a result comparable to simply buying BTC, but he continues to mine following a mine & hold strategy.

According to him, the main bet is on rising transaction fees and higher equipment prices during a bull market.

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🪙 Michael Saylor stated that for people in countries with depreciating currencies, such as Nigeria, Bitcoin is not an investment, but a survival tool.

In an interview, he compared BTC to insulin for a diabetic: according to him, it is the only way to preserve "economic energy" and protect against hyperinflation.

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☠️ Iran and Russia have become key players in using cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions — Chainalysis

Overall, the volume of illegal operations in crypto reached a record $154 billion in 2025, increasing by 162% year-on-year.

Analysts note the growing influence of Chinese money laundering networks, which have turned crypto crime into a professional industry.

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🪙 Solana plans to integrate into X (Twitter).

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🪙 17 years ago, on January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto sent the first Bitcoin transaction to Hal Finney.

Finney said that Satoshi’s identity was a mystery to him — he believed he was communicating with “a young man of Japanese origin, very intelligent and sincere.”

Reflecting on his experience in 2014, Finney later regretted his initial lack of interest in BTC:

After a few days, Bitcoin was running fairly stably, so I stayed online. Those were the days when the difficulty was 1, and you could mine on a CPU. Over the next days I mined a few blocks, but then I turned off my computer because it was getting hot and the fan noise was annoying.

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🖥 In 2025, solo miners found 36 Bitcoin blocks — earning 3.125 BTC per block plus transaction fees, averaging about $317 000 per block.

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🪙 Vitalik Buterin believes Ethereum should support applications as tools — like a hammer: you buy it, and it’s yours, independent of the provider, updates, or risks of shutdown, hacks, or rent extraction.

To achieve this, Ethereum needs full quantum resistance, a scalable architecture, a state model designed for decades, a proper gas schedule, a universal account model (full abstraction, moving beyond strict ECDSA dependency), a robust PoS economic model, and decentralized, censorship-resistant block construction.

Buterin emphasizes that at least one of these goals — preferably several — should be implemented every year.

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🪙 Strategy has acquired 13 627 BTC for $1.25 billion at $91 519 per Bitcoin.

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🗽 SEC Chair Paul Atkins said that the fate of Venezuela’s $60 billion in BTC remains a political rather than a regulatory issue, while the CLARITY bill is expected to put an end to uncertainty as early as this year by clearly delineating the powers of the SEC and the CFTC.

Regulators have pledged to work together and are betting on predictable rules to make the United States a global crypto capital; however, according to Senator John Boozman, consideration of the CLARITY bill has been postponed until the end of the month.

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