🍀 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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🇷🇺 In the Astrakhan region, an illegal mining farm was uncovered — 136 devices connected to a 10 kV network via two transformers and stole electricity worth almost 40,000,000 rubles.

According to "Rosseti Yug", the volume of illegal consumption amounted to about 3.2 million kWh. Now law enforcement agencies are identifying those involved.

It seems someone decided that hashrate is more important than the meter.

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🇷🇺 Russians' crypto transactions may fall under new restrictions — according to the discussed version of the bill by the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance, operations for the purchase, sale, and transfer of crypto assets are planned to be filtered through a "banking filter".

In addition, it is proposed the creation of a black list of market participants — banks will automatically reject transfers to them.

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🏦 Moscow Exchange prepares to start cryptocurrency trading —the platform is already testing trading processes together with brokers and preparing for the start of crypto trading.

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🐋 An OTC whale, who aggressively bought BTC and ETH at the start of the market downturn, seems to capitulate — he sold 23,500 ETH for $47.8 million to cover loans.

From January 8 to February 2, he accumulated 163,405 ETH for $440 million at an average of $2691, and then from February 2 to February 5, he bought an additional 4,000 cbBTC for $296 million at $74,004.

Now his position is deeply in the red — about $135 million. It seems even large players cannot withstand market pressure.

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