Bitcoin's Meteoric Rise from 2012 to 2025

🔹 From 2012 to 2025, $BTC surged by an unprecedented 25,203,447%, far outpacing #NVIDIA (57,202%) and #Tesla (17,706%).

🔹 In contrast, traditional assets saw much slower growth:

NASDAQ (721%)
Nikkei (411%)
S&P 500 (407%)
Gold ETFs (103%)

Trader Machi Big Brother enters the TOP-5 on Hyperliquid, earning $17M profit from his long positions, according to Hyperdash.

He is still holding significant longs:

➠ ETH — $46.18M+ with 25x leverage
➠ HYPE — $19M+ with 5x leverage

OPEN INTEREST IN FUTURES ON THE EXCHANGE (USD) (August 13)

Hyperliquid Earned 35% of All Blockchain Revenue in July

U.S. Treasury Secretary: The Treasury Department plans to explore options for acquiring additional Bitcoin without straining the budget, aiming to expand reserves and fulfill the President's pledge to make the U.S. the "global Bitcoin superpower."

Visa is betting big on stablecoins, according to Bloomberg in an interview with the company’s head of crypto.

Key takeaways from the interview:
➠ Visa is actively expanding its business in stablecoin-based settlements.
➠ The payments giant is partnering with major banks and fintech companies.
➠ The company is considering launching its own stablecoin.
➠ Visa’s strategy is not to abandon its existing infrastructure, but to integrate stablecoins into current payment systems.
➠ It positions itself as a bridge between traditional and crypto payments.
➠ Over the past year, the stablecoin market has grown by 62%, with Standard Chartered projecting $2 trillion in market size within three years.
➠ Current stablecoin transaction volume is around $30 billion per day (less than 1% of global money flows).
➠ In the long run, stablecoins could replace part of Visa’s core business.
➠ The market is attracting major players (PayPal, Stripe) and regulatory initiatives (such as Genius in the U.S.).
➠ Visa is placing a special focus on developing countries with underdeveloped banking infrastructure.

Visa’s crypto initiatives include:
➠ Visa Tokenized Asset Platform for issuing and managing blockchain-based tokens (launched in 2024).
➠ A pilot with Spanish bank BBVA for token issuance on the Ethereum network.
➠ Stablecoin-based settlements already exceeding $200 million in transactions.
➠ A partnership with Yellow Card in Africa to use stablecoins for cross-border payments.

Aave has reached $3 trillion in lifetime deposits.

Donald Trump has earned $2.4 billion from cryptocurrency since 2022, according to The New Yorker.

Breakdown of earnings:
▪️ $14.4M – NFT collections
▪️ $412.5M – World Liberty Financial (#WLFI)
▪️ $243M – Deals with the UAE (related to investments in Binance)
▪️ $13M – Mining via American Bitcoin
▪️ $1.3B – Trump Media & Technology Group (BTC reserve)
▪️ $385M – Meme coin Official Trump (#TRUMP)
▪️ $65M – Meme coin Melania (#MELANIA)

The CEO of Canary Capital believes there is a greater than 50% chance that Bitcoin will reach $140,000–$150,000 this year before another bear market emerges next year.

James Wynn returned to his old wallet and opened a small long position on $ETH with 25x leverage, buying 111.87 $ETH.

"Ignore the bears" — Michael Saylor’s tip of the day

🇦🇺 Australian Regulator vs Binance (Reuters)

Australia’s financial watchdog (AUSTRAC) has ordered Binance’s local unit to undergo an independent audit.

Reason: Concerns over the effectiveness of its anti–money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) measures.

The review found weak AML/CTF controls, insufficient local staff, and limited capacity for independent monitoring.

📌 In December 2024, another Australian regulator (ASIC) had already filed a lawsuit against Binance.

Founder of OneKey: Update your software on iOS and macOS to the latest version (❗️) as soon as possible – Apple has discovered a critical zero-day vulnerability.

CVE-2025-43300 is already being actively exploited by hackers: it’s enough to open a specially crafted image for an attacker to gain remote access to your device.

Over 30 Celebrity Tokens Launched on $SOL in June 2024 Have Plunged by at Least 73%.

Trading of the Trump family’s #WLFI token will launch on the Ethereum mainnet on September 1 at 3:00 PM MSK (official announcement)

The token will be available on DEXs and major centralized exchanges, with the full list to be published later.

The world is becoming darker, and this is exactly where a “stable” Tether is needed (Paolo Ardoino).

▪️ The Tether CEO stated that the next 10–20 years will not bring anything bright for humanity — the world will become “darker.”

▪️ In such conditions, the company sees its mission not just as a stablecoin issuer, but as a “stable company” that provides resilience to people and communities.

▪️ Tether has to play “4D chess” — anticipating the moves of tech companies, governments, and central banks in an ever-changing global system.

▪️ AI technologies will become a key driver of change. Within the next 5–10 years, more payments will be made by AI agents than by humans.

More than 55 million Bitcoin wallets are in profit.

The average holding time for BTC is 4.4 years.