🇵🇰 Pakistan's Central Bank for the first time since 2018 allowed banks to work with crypto companies — now they can open accounts after license verification.

This is the first step towards legalizing the crypto market in the country, although banks are still prohibited from investing in or holding cryptocurrencies.

Earlier we reported, that Pakistan plans to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve.

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👻 Bitcoin developers proposed an update BIP-361 to freeze early wallets, vulnerable to quantum attack.

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🇰🇷 South Korea already accounts for about 30% of the global cryptocurrency trading volume, with 85% of transactions there being in altcoins, rather than Bitcoin or Ethereum.

For comparison, Japan's entire crypto market with the yen generates only $2–3 billion per month, while Korea averages $26 billion in just a week.

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🇷🇺 The State Duma Committee on Competition Protection unexpectedly spoke against overly strict regulation of the crypto market and warned that strict licenses could kill startups and leave the market only to large players.

The State Duma also suggested considering the launch of a Russian stablecoin, for example, pegged to the ruble or gold.

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🇨🇳 The Circle company, which issues the USDC stablecoin, stated that it sees "huge opportunities" for creating a stablecoin pegged to the Chinese yuan.

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🚓 Ukrainian security forces detained a member of an international hacker group that attacked companies in Europe and the USA — the man laundered over $100 million, obtained through ransom for stolen data, by converting money into cryptocurrency and investing it in real estate and property in Ukraine.

During more than 30 searches, law enforcement officers arrested real estate, cars, about $1 million in cash, and cryptocurrency worth approximately $8.3 million.

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🇷🇺 Aksakov stated that he believes in crypto.

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🌏 In the world, only 7 countries remain where Bitcoin is officially banned: China, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Qatar, and Bangladesh.

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💸 Drift Protocol will receive $127,500,000 from Tether for user fund recovery.

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👻 Beijing lecturer Jiang Xueqin stated that the CIA or DARPA could have been behind the creation of Bitcoin — according to him, the development of Bitcoin required too many resources, cryptography, and years of work to be the work of one person, and the very fact that the technology was released for free and its author disappeared, more closely resembles a state experiment than an ordinary IT project.

He also claims that blockchain could have emerged in the same environment as the internet or GPS, and Satoshi Nakamoto's anonymity only strengthens suspicions.

However, most experts consider the theory dubious: the Bitcoin network operates on tens of thousands of independent nodes around the world, and its code has been developing openly and publicly for 17 years.

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