🍿 Senators demand from Binance to provide documents, concerning "the use of Binance by individuals in Iran", including documents on the dismissal of compliance department employees.

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🇷🇺 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Finance have prepared a bill "On Digital Currency and Digital Rights", which is intended to launch basic regulation of the crypto market from July 1, 2026, and a full-fledged infrastructure of exchanges, depositories, and exchangers — a year later.

The document introduces five types of market participants with requirements for information disclosure and AML control, describes the procedure for state bodies to access data on citizens' crypto assets, and obliges all investors to undergo testing before purchasing cryptocurrency in Russian jurisdiction.

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📊 Stocks Strategy (MSTR) have become the main target for short-sellers amid an unrealized loss of $7 billion from its Bitcoin reserve.

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🇰🇷 In South Korea, a man poisoned his business partner with a pesticide after a conflict over a loss of about $816 000 on BTC investments.

The victim survived but was unconscious for three days; the accused is charged with attempted murder, and the trial will take place on March 10 in Seoul.

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🍀 A solo miner mined Bitcoin block #938092, having rented about 1 PH/s of hashrate for just $75 — and as a reward, he received 3.125 BTC ($200,000).

Over the past year, solo miners have already independently mined 21 blocks.

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🇸🇻 In El Salvador, tourists have started issuing Bitcoin passports.

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🪒 The Board of Directors of GD Culture Group authorized the sale of 7500 BTC from the company's treasury.

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🔮 Prediction platform Kalshi for the first time revealed information about insider trading cases — in one instance an employee of the most popular YouTube blogger MrBeast placed bets on outcomes, related to his videos, having access to non-public information.

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📊 In January, the volume of stablecoin transfers exceeded $10.5 trillion — the highest value since April 2022.

The majority of operations accounted for USDC from Circle — $8.3 trillion, USDT's indicator was $1.7 trillion, and DAI took third place with a value of $138 billion.

For incomplete February, the volume of stablecoin transactions reached $7.8 trillion.

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🍿 Several Axiom employees used internal company data for insider trading, reported crypto investigator ZachXBT. This refers to the abuse of official information for personal gain.

Axiom is a cryptocurrency trading platform (and infrastructure provider) that works with on-chain data and tools for traders.

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