🖥 A 68-year-old pensioner from the Moscow region was sentenced to 2 years probation for illegal crypto mining — he was also ordered to compensate for damages exceeding 4 100 000 rubles to the energy supply organization.

All equipment was confiscated for the benefit of the state.

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🪙 JPMorgan for the first time included Bitcoin in its long-term forecasts and expects about 10% annual returns from it over a 10–15 year horizon.

This is higher than the projected returns for US stocks (7.5%), real estate (8.2%), and gold (5.5%), although the bank itself warns of high BTC volatility.

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🪙 On the balances of 34 organizations, 8,100,000 ETH worth $19.37 billion is concentrated — this is 6.64% of the total Ethereum supply.

Almost three quarters of this volume belong to one company — BitMine, which has accumulated over 6 million ETH worth $14.43 billion.

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💳 Mastercard taught AI agents to pay with cryptocurrency independently.

During tests, one of them paid nine times for information retrieval and image creation via the Base blockchain — all that was left for a human was to set a budget in advance, and then the agent handled it without their involvement.

Recently, Mastercard launched a platform, which will allow payments with stablecoins at hundreds of millions of merchants worldwide.

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🪙 Today Solana is preparing for the biggest upgrade in its history — Alpenglow — it is expected to reduce the final transaction confirmation time from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds.

Transactions will become irreversible almost instantly, and the network itself will switch to a new consensus system. The switch is expected around 17:00 MSK.

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📊 Altcoins are trapped — when Bitcoin grows, they stand still, and when it falls, they lose even more.

According to Wintermute, over the week, alts have dropped by an average of 5.7% as capital flows into BTC and ETH, and even a new Bitcoin rally might not change the situation.

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🤔 Arkham launched a paid platform Enterprise for tracking crypto transfers and investigations, while cutting down the capabilities of the free version.

Now without a subscription you cannot view the full transaction history and use Tracer 2.0, and the transaction list is limited to the last 100 — however, data and labels now update in real time.

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🚬 Investor Li Lu, disciple of the legendary Charlie Munger, called cryptocurrencies a fiction and predicted that they would eventually disappear on their own.

His mentor was even more categorical — he advised to avoid Bitcoin "like the plague", compared cryptocurrencies to a venereal disease and demanded their prohibition.

Munger himself was Warren Buffett's chief associate for decades and his right-hand man at Berkshire Hathaway.

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🗽 The US has approved the first stablecoin regulation rules under the GENIUS act, which will come into effect on January 18, 2027, key points:

🔵 Stablecoin Rewards. The OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) has abandoned previously proposed restrictions on individual user payout programs via crypto exchanges and third-party platforms.
🔵 Issuer Reserves. The regulator softened reserve management rules but maintained the mandatory 1:1 backing of stablecoins.
🔵 Oversight and Licensing. Requirements for licensing, risk management, reserve custody, and stablecoin redemption are stipulated for issuers.

Other regulators continue to develop their own requirements.

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🪙 More than half of the total BTC volume is stored at addresses, whose owners are unknown.

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