When you run into a friend you recommended to buy Bitcoin a month ago. 👀

💥 Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has become a partner of the Spanish football club Atletico Madrid.

Starting from the 2024/25 season, their logo will be featured on the team's playing kit.

When you visit a crypto enthusiast's home 💩

The five most popular cryptocurrencies for each continent

In Africa, Notcoin outperformed Bitcoin! 🙂

💸 Last night, someone sent 0.00005114 BTC to the German government's Bitcoin wallet. Notice which address was used for this.

Looks like a message, doesn't it? 😅

✨ Binance celebrated its 7th anniversary with 210 million users

In 14 July, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, marked its 7th anniversary, reaching a milestone of 200 million users.

💬 Binance CEO, Richard Teng, emphasized in a published article titled "Seven Years at the Forefront of Financial Innovation" that Binance remains a "young startup." He also noted that the company has successfully navigated several crises, learning crucial lessons along the way.

✔️ Among Binance's major achievements are:

📌 Custody assets surpassing $100 billion.

📌 Support for 541 cryptocurrencies and 2632 trading pairs.

📌 24 million users on the Binance Pay payment system.

📌 43.6 million users on the Binance Academy educational platform.

📌 Institutional registrations growing by 36% in the first half of 2024.

📌 Licenses held in 18 jurisdictions and processing approximately 62,800 requests from law enforcement agencies in the last year.

💸 Since Microstrategy adopted the Bitcoin standard in August 2020, the company's stocks have been growing faster than most popular stocks, including Nvidia.

People who bought BTC at $52,000 last week 🙂

💸 Donald Trump received $3 million in cryptocurrency donations

Trump's campaign has been accepting cryptocurrency transfers since May.

✔️ Over two months, about 100 people made cryptocurrency transfers to Trump's team's wallets, primarily in Bitcoin or Ethereum. He received $1.6 million in Bitcoin from the Winklevoss twins — the owners of the Gemini exchange, and another $845,000 in Ethereum from Jesse Powell, the founder of the Kraken exchange.

Someone also sent him memecoins — $300 in Dogecoin and $100 in Shiba Inu. Most payments were immediately converted to stablecoins on partner exchanges.

Overall, Trump's campaign received $331 million in donations in the second quarter of this year.

‼️ Craig Wright (known as "Faketoshi") has officially admitted that he is not the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto!

The end of the story.

🥸 U.S. Senator Menendez, who previously claimed that "Bitcoin is the perfect choice for criminals," has been convicted of accepting bribes in gold and cash.

What irony.

💬 Vitalik Buterin: People Want to Invest in Casinos

The co-founder of Ethereum stated that too many investments are being poured into certain types of infrastructure and not enough into others.

🕯 According to him, people want to invest in casinos but also want to feel good about it, so they invest in parts of the sector that derive secondary profits from casinos.

"If any part of the infrastructure is not open-source, it will not benefit the ecosystem," Buterin concluded.

📊 How all the Bitcoins that have ever been and will ever be mined are distributed today.

‼️On the cryptocurrency platform Polymarket, bets have surged again on Joe Biden withdrawing his candidacy from the U.S. presidential race

The betting pool has already reached almost $17 million, with 62% of participants betting on a positive outcome.

✔️It has become known that the U.S. president has contracted coronavirus again and will go into isolation.

Moreover, Biden stated that he is tired of American businessman Elon Musk and his "wealthy friends" who are "trying to buy the elections."

🔥Bets on a positive outcome of the event peaked at 75% after Biden's debate with Donald Trump but then dropped to 36% before rising again.

🕯 30 candlestick patterns to help make decisions on buying or selling crypto

It's important to understand that this refers to speculative trading, not investing.

✔️ The transaction volume in stablecoins for the second quarter of 2024 nearly reached 3 trillion dollars. Representatives from the investment fund Bitwise shared this data graphically.

Crypto is clearly taking over the world 🔼

👀 Remember earlier this week when someone used the address "1FucKyou4vm..." to send bitcoins to the German government?

It seems like the competition among crypto investors to be resourceful continues.

💬 Vitalik Buterin published an article in which he warns voters against supporting political candidates who claim to support cryptocurrency without understanding the core goals of the technology.

✔️ Vitalik also noted that such politicians might back legislative measures that could broadly harm the crypto ecosystem, despite their rhetoric.

Some people running for office have been labeled as "pro-crypto" but haven't necessarily made their positions clear on issues such as communication privacy, digital identification, and access to information.