Need a support from Pavel Durov?)

🐶 Telegram’s founder just flagged a wave of scams hitting the platform: rare collectible gifts, premium usernames, and OG handles are mooning in value — and so are the number of extortion attempts. Scammers are now threatening to dox users unless they fork over high-value names or pay up. The grift game just leveled up(

⚡️ But there’s a plot twist — you can write Durov directly now. The catch? It’ll cost you 5,000💜 per message. Capitalism in action!

🚀Back in spring 2024 at TOKEN2049 Dubai, Durov said Telegram would tokenize more than just usernames — stickers and emojis are coming to TON as NFTs, with 95% royalties going to creators.
Fast-forward to June, and TON became the #2 chain globally by on-chain NFT trade volume, right behind Ethereum — thanks to a massive pump in NFT gift hype.

So what’s your move? You hodling these tokenized gifts, or already cashed out and chillin’ in the Bahamas?)

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Jack Dorsey is turning the future into the now

💡Block (née Square under Jack Dorsey) just dropped plans to push Bitcoin payments via Lightning Network on its POS terminals.
The pilot kicks off in the second half of 2025, and full merchant access is slated for 2026—pending the regulators' green light.

🫀 Dorsey says Lightning will enable ultra-fast, ultra-cheap BTC payments—customers just scan a QR code, and Square handles rate conversions and settlement.
Roughly 4 million sellers (mostly SMBs across the U.S. and beyond) will be able to accept BTC directly for goods and services.

🔥And it solves a big headache: Lightning tackles the high fees and slow settlement of on-chain Bitcoin—transactions are near-instant, with minimal fees, delivering exactly what everyone expects from crypto’s promise. That’s the kind of payment speed and efficiency users have been craving from digital money.

What about you? Are you ready to pay in crypto at the store, or would you still go old-school with P2P or cards? Drop your take in the comments!

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🤑 Today Notcoin released a cool game called Hitoku.

🕺 It's a music rhythm game with fun gameplay, various skins, and characters. For now, everything can only be bought with stars, but in the future, there will be an option to purchase with in-game currency (orbs).

💵The game also has leaderboards, and soon there will be tournaments with rewards that have real value.

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✍️ Write in the comments what you think about the new game

When the strongest finally throw in the towel

‼️ We recently covered the saga of James Howells — the guy from the UK who spent 12 years hunting for a hard drive with 7,500 BTC that his ex accidentally tossed into a Newport landfill back in 2013.

♥️ The dude offered the city a cut of the crypto stash — it’s worth around $950 million now — in exchange for permission to dig it up. But every time, Newport City Council said “no"(  And just days ago, he finally pulled the plug on the hunt.

What about you — would you have thrown in the towel over time, or would you have kept digging till the end? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

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A billion-dollar transaction

⚡️Trump’s crypto adviser and Bitcoin Magazine co-founder David Bailey fulfilled his “dream” on August 12 — buying $760M worth of bitcoin in a single order.

🔥Bailey is a well-known figure in the BTC community, owner of Bitcoin Magazine, and organizer of the largest crypto conferences in the U.S. He launched the Nakamoto holding company, which is going public and has already raised $710M from top investors like VanEck, Jihan Wu, and Ricardo Salinas.

‼️Nakamoto will become the first public holding to use bitcoin as a strategic asset and issue bitcoin-backed stocks and bonds. The goal — to make BTC a base asset for companies and even government institutions worldwide.

Do you respect the father of crypto? Do you hold bitcoin at all, or is your portfolio made up of alts and meme coins? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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The Day the Dollar Lost Its Gold

💡On August 14, 1971, Nixon “temporarily” suspended the dollar’s convertibility into gold at $35 per ounce. That “temporary” move became permanent — and real money was broken.

🐶 Every year, crypto exchange Coinbase reminds us of this moment, ending with Hayek’s 1984 prophecy:

«Good money will only return if we take it out of the hands of government. Not by force — but by creating something they cannot stop.»

And what do you think: does fiat have any chance of survival in the digital era? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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Giant exchange run by 11 people

🚀DEX platform Hyperliquid has become the most profitable company in the world by revenue per employee - $102.4M per person.

💰For comparison: Tether makes $93M, OnlyFans - $37.6M. Then comes a cosmic gap: Nvidia - $3.6M, Apple - $2.4M!

🐶Hyperliquid’s entire team is just 11 people. Minimum staff, maximum profit. That’s what the future of lean business looks like.

And what do you think: is the future in compact crypto-teams or in giant corporations?

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The birth of a legend

🦋On August 20, 2008, Satoshi sent his first email to Adam Back, the creator of Hashcash, to verify a quote from his work and discuss the idea of Proof-of-Work for p2p-money.

⚡️On October 31, 2008, Satoshi published the white paper: “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Just two months later, on January 3, 2009, the "genesis block" was mined — the very first block in the blockchain, laying the foundation for decentralized money.

What do you think: when will the fiat era finally end, and all transactions become decentralized? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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Probability of Loss in BTC

💡In the short run, the odds of being down are high: nearly 47% in a single day, and after a month it’s still around 42%. But the longer you hold, the closer that number gets to zero.

🫱Over three years, the chance of being in the red is less than 1%. Over ten years — it’s 0%. Nobody has ever lost by simply holding.

🦋The lesson is clear: Bitcoin isn’t for trading, it’s for the patient. Want to win? Learn to wait.

Have you already taken advantage of the discounts before the real rally? Share your deals in the comments!

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When Whales Wake Up

🐋An anonymous Bitcoin whale just sold 24,000 BTC (~$2.7B) in a single transaction - instantly dragging the price down by almost $4,000 per coin!

💼These coins sat untouched for over 5 years, until suddenly part of the stash got liquidated. Wallets with this kind of dormant activity are extremely rare.

⚪️But here’s the catch: the whale still holds around 152,000 BTC (!!!). Analysts warn that if he decides to dump the rest, the price could crash to $60–70K per BTC.

What would you do in his place: smash the market in one move, or slowly unload during the next ATH? Share your strategies in the comments!

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CZ Reminded Us of Bitcoin’s First Big Pump

🐶 Changpeng Zhao (Binance founder) shared a chart highlighting October 4, 2017 - the day BTC kicked off its run from $4,000 to $17,700 in just two months.

🚀 “Not trying to predict the future, and don’t lose your head. Just data,” CZ wrote, noting that it was his very first crypto market cycle.

Do you remember your first cycle? Or did you jump in later? Drop your stories in the comments!

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