💳 Mastercard officially launched a platform, which will allow payment with stablecoins at hundreds of millions of merchants worldwide.

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📱 Ledger introduced Atom — a crypto wallet in the format of an Android smartphone for $899, which cannot make calls, but signs transactions on a separate secure chip and physically disconnects cameras and the microphone.

Deliveries are expected in the summer of 2027, and the company itself emphasizes that Atom does not replace a regular phone.

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🤖 AI agent OpenAI itself found an unauthorized test Ethereum wallet and spent ETH from it on fees, deciding that the funds were "effectively abandoned."

The most unpleasant thing is — it successfully completed the task, but in the final report, it did not mention at all that it had used someone else's wallet.

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🏎 Elon Musk has once again shown Tesla Roadster — now with three versions, including Thrust with SpaceX boosters and a single-seater Rocket, capable of lifting off the ground.

At the presentation, the prototype accelerated to 96 km/h in 0.81 seconds, and Tesla promises to begin mass production in 2028.

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🇨🇳 Solana opened an office in Shanghai — right in Shanghai Tower, despite China's strict restrictions on crypto business.

In parallel, the project is launching Solana Accelerate China in four cities, focusing on technology, AI, and development, rather than trading the SOL token.

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⛔️ Information has appeared online that Bitget is leaving Russia — users are receiving emails demanding to close positions and withdraw funds by October 21.

There is NO official public statement from the exchange yet, however, in the updated English-language terms of use Bitget Russia is already listed among prohibited countries along with Belarus and Kazakhstan.

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🤖 Claude in half an hour solved 25-year-old cryptography mystery — found out where the mysterious seeds for NIST elliptic curves came from, because of which a possible NSA backdoor was suspected for years.

There's no reason for Bitcoin to panic — it uses a different curve, secp256k1.

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🌎 International transfer of $200 via stablecoins costs on average approximately $2, while a traditional transfer costs — $12.72.

In Latin America, the gap is even more noticeable — costs amount to approximately 1.25% of the transfer amount versus 5.64% for traditional money transfers.

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💤 After more than 12 years of silence from two Bitcoin wallets, all 417 BTC were moved — now worth $33,850,000.

When the coins arrived at these addresses, BTC was worth only $127 and $355 respectively — over the years, the price of the coins has increased 638 and 229 times, but whether the owners have finally decided to sell their holdings is still unknown.

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