🇰🇷 South Korea blocked access to as many as 27 foreign crypto exchanges without local registration, including KuCoin, MEXC, BingX and BitMart.

As a reminder, South Korea became the largest crypto market in East Asia with a turnover of approximately $449 billion per year, almost doubling Japan.

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⛔️ Blur is also shutting down — 2026 has already managed to bury BitMEX, AscendEX, Binance NFT, Abstract, NFTfi and Blast, and now one of the largest NFT marketplaces of past years has been added to the list.

The Blur website will close on November 12 — just recently it controlled most of Ethereum-NFT trading, but now its volumes have plummeted by more than 99%.

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🐋 Strive bought an additional 3,311 BTC — now the company's balance is 32,773 BTC.

Strive is Vivek Ramaswamy's company, Musk's former associate in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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🇬🇧 In 2025, British police seized about 61,000 BTC linked to Zhimin Qian — the organizer of a large Chinese pyramid scheme, which defrauded tens of thousands of investors.

Now, the High Court of England ruled that the claims of these victims for the return of bitcoins must be assessed under Chinese law, and this increases the UK's chances of retaining a significant portion of the cryptocurrency for the state, worth about $5 billion.

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📊 BTC that had been dormant for 1 to 3 years suddenly came into motion — CryptoQuant.

These are not necessarily sales — some transfers may be related to re-securing after the story with Ledger and transferring coins to new wallets.

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🇫🇷 France is considering introducing a tax of 31.4% on the conversion of cryptocurrencies into MiCA stablecoins from 2027.

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🇪🇺 Exchange Kraken plans to acquire Saldo bank, operating in accordance with EU regulations.

The deal is expected to be completed in 2027.

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🇺🇸 US Consumer Price Index (CPI), reflecting inflation, rose to 3.7%.

Bitcoin reacts with a drop below $83,000.

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🇹🇷 Richard Heart, the founder of the Hex and Pulsechain projects, was arrested in Istanbul.

Authorities seized hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, luxury items, watches, firearms, and computers.

He has been charged with large-scale cryptocurrency fraud in the USA, Finland, and Spain.

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🇪🇺 USDC from Circle became the first stablecoin in the EU to be recognized as "significant" under MiCA.

From November 12, Circle will be monitored more strictly — with separate checks on reserves, liquidity, capital, and the ability to redeem tokens.

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