🧬 Analyst Willy Woo proposed a temporary way to protect Bitcoin from the hypothetical threat of quantum computers — by storing coins at SegWit addresses and not touching them for about 7 years, until a quantum-resistant protocol appears. According to him, such addresses hide the public key until the moment of transaction, making them less vulnerable.

However, some experts believe that SegWit does not provide real protection and the network requires a full upgrade. Overall, according to Woo’s estimate, the threat of quantum attacks will become relevant no earlier than 2030, and work on protection standards is already underway.

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🇨🇳 China accuses the USA of stealing 127,000 BTC, stolen as a result of a hacker attack on a Chinese mining pool in 2020.

On December 29, 2020, the LuBian mining pool was hacked, the coins remained untouched for almost four years, which is unusual for ordinary hackers.

In June 2024, they suddenly moved to wallets that Arkham marked as belonging to the US government.

🇨🇦 The Mayor of Vancouver pays for a drink using BTC via the Lightning Network.

🇦🇷 The Argentine court has frozen the assets of the creator of the LIBRA shitcoin Hayden Davis and two of his partners due to suspicions of bribery to President Javier Milei.

According to the investigation, an hour after publishing a joint photo with Milei, Davis sent $500,000 through the Bitget exchange, which could have been a form of reward for promoting the token.

After the scandal, LIBRA plummeted by 90%, and the president deleted all posts about the project and stated that he was not aware of the details.

⚖ Chinese woman Zhimin Qian was sentenced in London to 11 years in prison for large-scale fraud and money laundering — 61,000 BTC worth over $6 billion were confiscated from her.

From 2014 to 2017, she ran a pyramid scheme in China, deceiving more than 120,000 investors, and then fled abroad under a false identity.

The trial lasted seven years, and the fate of the confiscated bitcoins is still unresolved.

🇦🇪 The Central Bank of the UAE conducted the first transaction with the digital dirham (CBDC) as part of a pilot project — the full launch is scheduled for the end of 2025 and will be phased.

⚡ Circle, the issuer of USDC, plans to launch a native coin for its own ARC blockchain.

Recently, we wrote that Circle is starting testing of the ARC blockchain with major institutions, including BlackRock, Visa, AWS, and Anthropic.