🚬 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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🪙 Dogecoin is trying to be transformed from a meme into a payment system — developers of MyDoge wallet and DogeOS platform united into Dogecoin Labs, to give DOGE more practical application.

Plans include — applications, games, and in-store payments, although a significant part of the ecosystem is still under development.

Previously, the MyDoge team launched the test network DogeOS — L2 for Dogecoin with smart contracts and DeFi applications, where fees are paid in DOGE.

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🎲 Crypto exchanges found a new source of income — while the crypto market is experiencing a downturn, exchanges are increasingly exploring casinos prediction markets, where you can bet on the outcomes of real events.

According to Financial Times, the trading volume on Polymarket and Kalshi increased from $17 billion in January to $72 billion in September — now Coinbase, Binance US, and other major platforms are rushing into this business.

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🤖 Etherscan has released a connector for Claude, which allows you to check wallet balances, transfers, and smart contracts with simple questions to the AI.

It supports over 60 blockchains, and you can add it via the Claude catalog without an API key.

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☠️ Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX, seems to have become a victim of a hack — analysts discovered a suspicious withdrawal of almost $16,000,000 in USDT.

In July 2025, the exchange already lost $44 million.

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📊 Solana became the fastest blockchain after the Alpenglow upgrade, which reduced transaction finality to 150 ms.

TON is in 4th place.

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📺 Elon Musk suggested that AI and robots will be able to provide people with practically any goods and services.

In such a future, traditional money will lose its meaning, and value will be measured by energy, power, and mass.

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🚬 Giant a16z plans to drop the word CRYPTO from the name of its main blockchain fund, to focus on other investments — and one of its founders will also leave the company.

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🪙 $635 000 000 was withdrawn from spot Bitcoin ETFs on October 22 — one of the largest daily outflows in recent months.

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🪙 Ethereum postpones the Glamsterdam update scheduled for October 26 in the Hoodi testnet due to potential issues with already operating smart contracts.

The new rules change the cost of writing data to the blockchain, which may cause some applications to stop working — the developers decided to deal with this before the launch, a new date has not yet been set.

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