🇨🇳 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.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan has issued 50,140,738 USDKG, backed by gold and pegged to the US dollar at a nominal value of $1 per unit — the issuer is a state-controlled company.

The Ministry of Finance plans to allocate up to $500 million to back the token, and later increase reserves to $2 billion.

Kyrgyzstan has also banned mining across the country amid a growing electricity shortage.

🇺🇸 The SEC is considering creating exceptions for tokens classified as securities.

The commission chairman, Paul Atkins, stated that the agency is developing a new classification of crypto assets to separate them by legal status.

Even if a token initially falls under the Howey test, over time it may lose its characteristics as a security as the project decentralizes.

🇹🇼 Taiwan will study the use of Bitcoin as a strategic asset and will launch a pilot BTC storage from confiscated funds.

The decision was made by the Prime Minister and the country's Central Bank.

🇦🇪 Dubai court froze $456,000,000 linked to Justin Sun and the stablecoin TrueUSD.

The money that was supposed to be held in reserve, according to the investigation, was spent on third-party deals and loans — which could have caused problems with payments to users for the project.