🗽 Donald Trump stated that tariff dividends of $2000 will be sent to Americans by mid-2026.

Bear market for another six months?

💰 The company Forward Industries, which was actively buying Solana, at night transferred 1,887,962 SOL ($253 million) to Coinbase Prime.

Into the order book?

🍿 Arthur Hayes in a new essay stated that the fall of BTC is not due to fundamental problems, but due to a reduction in liquidity — flows into ETFs and DAT have noticeably weakened.

In his assessment, Bitcoin could drop to $80,000, but with the return of liquidity and the recovery of the US stock market, it is capable of rising to $250,000 by the end of the year.

🤖 Jeff Bezos has created the AI startup Project Prometheus and personally invested in it, with the total amount of funding raised reaching $6.2 billion — the company's co-founder is scientist Vik Bajaj, a former member of Google's research division Google X, and the team has already hired about a hundred specialists from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta.

The startup intends to use AI for development and manufacturing in the aerospace, automotive, and computer industries, although its location and exact launch date have not yet been disclosed.

For Bezos, this is the first leadership project after stepping down as CEO of Amazon, and he sees AI as a field that can simultaneously cause an investment bubble and bring significant benefits to society.

💰 A large investor sold 31,005 ETH for $92 million, losing $18.8 million in just two weeks.

He bought Ether during the dip in early November at an average price of $3,581, investing over $110 million, but the market continued to decline, and the whale realized a loss.

💳 Mastercard has chosen Polygon to create a system that will allow sending cryptocurrency not to long wallet addresses, but directly to the username.

💰 Miners have mined 95% of the total Bitcoin supply — yesterday the volume of mined coins exceeded 19.95 million BTC out of the 21 million limit programmed by Satoshi Nakamoto.

Emission slows down with each halving: after April 2024, the block reward decreased from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC, and now miners produce about 450 BTC per day instead of the previous 900.

Although the majority of coins are already in circulation, the last 5% will be mined slowly — until 2140, and Bitcoin is gradually transitioning to an economy where user fees play a key role in supporting the hashrate and network security, with mining difficulty at a historic high of 152.27 T.

💰 Revolut has chosen Polygon as the main crypto infrastructure for payments, trading, and staking.

🗽 The state of New Hampshire approved the issuance of the world's first municipal bond worth $100 million, secured by BTC — a new financial instrument where Bitcoin is used as overcollateralization.

🚬 Michael Saylor stated that he is not worried about a further drop in BTC — the company Strategy can withstand an 80–90% decline in the first cryptocurrency and continue operating.

😀 After 14 years in the Bitcoin mining industry, Bitfury has decided to change direction and is launching an investment fund worth $1 billion — the funds will go to support startups in the fields of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies.

💎 During the downturn last week, altcoins showed unusual relative strength compared to BTC, most sectors actually outperforming the leading cryptocurrency — Glassnode.

💰 The American regulator OFAC imposed new sanctions against several Russian digital companies and related individuals — the restrictions affected entities associated with AEZA Group and Media Land.

The US stated that the measures are aimed at preventing the use of digital infrastructure to circumvent sanctions and strengthening control over cross-border IT networks.

💎 AlphaTON purchased 1,600,000 TON on the open market, and also staked 4 million TON.

🤖 Elon Musk stated that humanoid robots will eliminate poverty and make everyone rich.