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πŸ¦… The Central Bank of the Russian Federation explained that it allows Russians to use cryptocurrency NOT for investments, but primarily for "socially significant" transfers under restrictions.

Therefore, they want to set a limit for unqualified investors β€” no more than 300 thousand β‚½ per year through official Russian platforms.

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πŸ‹ Strategy purchased an additional 13,927 BTC for $1 billion.

Now the company's balance is 780,897 BTC, and the average purchase price is $75,577 per 1 BTC.

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πŸͺ™ The Ethereum network broke a historical record β€” over 3.6 million transactions passed through it in a day.

Blockchain activity has been growing for several months β€” in the first quarter alone, Ethereum attracted 284,000 new users, and the volume of stablecoins on the network reached a maximum.

Meanwhile, Tom Lee's BitMine bought another 71,524 ETH onto its balance β€” now the company holds 4.875 million ETH on its balance (over 4% of the total supply).

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πŸ” In the Irkutsk region, miners are increasingly often trying to disguise their farms as "chicken coop heating", greenhouses, or even wood drying.

Power engineers still find them by huge electricity consumption, noise, and thermal imagers β€” there were cases when ASIC miners were even placed on a grandmother's balcony without her knowledge.

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πŸ¦„ Several former crypto-Β«unicornsΒ», which were once valued at billions of dollars, have almost completely lost their value.

This shows how quickly in crypto even the most prominent and expensive projects can turn into Β«fallen unicornsΒ».

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βœ–οΈ Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X (Twitter), hinted that the platform might be preparing its own crypto product or an integration for crypto.

This was prompted by his statement that the crypto market had a "tough year" and X, perhaps, should "launch something to fix it".

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πŸ’Έ Hyperliquid has generated over $900 million in revenue with just 11 employees, making it one of the most efficient companies in the world in terms of profit per employee.

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πŸ—½ US SEC partially exempted DeFi services from broker registration β€” interfaces like Uniswap UI and MetaMask Swap will be able to operate without a license, if they do not hold client funds, do not provide advice, and do not profit from order routing.

Ironically, in 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried assured that the regulator would never agree to this.

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πŸͺ™ CEO Circle confirmed that the company plans to launch its own coin for the Arc blockchain, which is currently in the testnet phase.

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πŸ’Έ The US Department of Justice has begun payments to victims of OneCoin β€” one of the largest crypto pyramids in history, due to which investors lost over $4 billion.

Compensation will be paid from the confiscated assets of the organizers, including the property and bank accounts of the "cryptoqueen" Ruja Ignatova.

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πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ German giant Deutsche BΓΆrse invested $200,000,000 in crypto exchange Kraken.

The deal became one of the largest investments of the traditional financial market in the crypto industry.

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πŸš“ Security forces announced the uncovering of Russia's largest "paper" VAT scheme totaling 1.2 trillion rubles β€” it included nearly 40 thousand companies and 4800 shell companies.

Through fictitious transactions, businesses were helped to massively reduce taxes, and the organizers took 2–3% of the deduction amount for this.

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πŸͺ™ Tether launches crypto wallet Tether Wallet.

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πŸͺ™ Elon Musk's father stated that Elon and his brother Kimbal together own 23 400 BTC β€” this is about $1.7 billion and almost twice as much as Tesla holds.

According to him, cryptocurrencies are the future of finance, and the traditional banking system "has exhausted itself."

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🏬 In the App Store, a fake Ledger app was discovered, through which scammers have already stolen $9,500,000 in cryptocurrency in Bitcoin, Tron, and Solana.

Users themselves entered seed phrases into it, after which the attackers instantly gained full access to the wallets.

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πŸ’Έ Coinbase has started closely collaborating with Anthropic in order to gain access to the AI model Mythos and use it to find vulnerabilities and defend against new attacks.

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πŸ¦‘ Kraken has confidentially filed for an IPO.

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βœ–οΈ Twitter (X) has launched Cashtags β€” asset tickers that turn into clickable elements with a price chart and discussion feed right within the app, eliminating the need to navigate to third-party websites.

This is currently a pilot project (available in the US and Canada on iPhone), but they plan to add trading directly from the feed in the future.

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πŸͺ™ Justin Sun announced that TRON will be the first major public blockchain to implement NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptographic signatures on its mainnet to protect users' assets from quantum threats.

The project's technical roadmap is expected to be published soon.

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πŸͺ™ Bitmine reported a quarterly loss of $3.82 billion (over $9 billion for the first six months), largely due to the decline in the price of Ethereum.

At the same time, the company is expanding its holdings (now 4% of all ETH) and increasing revenueβ€”revenue rose to $11 million, almost entirely due to staking.

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πŸŽ₯ On April 22, the documentary film Finding Satoshi is released β€” the authors promise new investigations and an attempt to reveal who is behind the creation of Bitcoin.

Among the main candidates named are Adam Back, Hal Finney, and Nick Szabo.

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