🖥 MARA Holdings buys a 490-hectare site in Texas for $600,000,000, to build a data center there for AI and Bitcoin mining — the company expects to reach 1 GW of capacity by October 2027, and after closing related deals, bring the total energy portfolio to 4.8 GW.

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🇰🇿 CZ showed one of 5000 points of sale in Kazakhstan, where crypto can already be accepted via Alatau City Bank POS terminals powered by Binance Pay.

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🐋 JPMorgan believes that the main threat to Bitcoin is not potential large sales of Strategy, but the transition of banks and large institutions to closed blockchains.

If tokenization and payments move to private networks, public blockchains could lose activity, liquidity, and capital, which would ultimately hit the entire crypto market, including BTC.

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🇪🇺 After Binance restrictions in the EU, around 70% of withdrawn funds went to personal wallets and only 30% — to MiCA-licensed platforms.

Exchange head Richard Teng believes that regulation backfired — instead of moving to controlled platforms, users massively chose self-custody.

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⛩ Metaplanet wants to launch Bitcoin-backed lending instruments in Japan — the company plans to create a 24/7 BTC lending market, which is not yet available in the country.

Metaplanet currently holds 43,000 BTC on its balance sheet.

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😱 Ethereum activity growth may be deceptive — transactions have increased, but the median volume in dollars has fallen by 77%, and large capital is barely entering.

The market is currently being driven by small transfers and overheated derivatives — funding rates on Binance have surged by approximately 2400%.

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☠️ ZachXBT reported on the hack of one of the earliest Solana whales — an investor who received coins during the genesis distribution had 180,900 SOL stolen, worth approximately $14,200,000.

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan plans to launch a stablecoin pegged to the tenge for use in international settlements, the head of the National Bank stated.

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💸 According to Lookonchain, Abraxas Capital withdrew 3,931 XAUT worth $16 million from exchanges, and another whale, after a three-year hiatus, took 953 XAUT worth $4 million from Binance.

Overall, the XAUT outflow from exchanges for the day reached $17.4 million — approximately 16 times higher than the usual level, which looks like a significant accumulation of tokenized gold by large players.

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🤡 In the US, prosecutors accused an already convicted money launderer of stealing $290,000 in cryptocurrency from a Kraken account, which had been seized by the court.

The irony is that, according to the investigation, he committed the new theft while already behind bars.

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🤖 Vitalik Buterin believes that the AI debate boils down to two different scenarios — if superintelligence emerges in the coming decades, it is logical to slow down AI development; if it's just another technology, restrictions will only strengthen the power of large companies and states.

He himself does not venture to guess which path will prove real, so he suggests preparing for both — developing open source, cryptography, secure hardware, and other technologies that will be useful in any future.

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🇹🇭 Thailand tightens the screws around crypto — from Q4 2026, stablecoin operations, primarily USDT, will come under enhanced control, and for deposits from 5 million baht ($150,000), the source of funds will need to be confirmed.

After the introduction of similar rules for withdrawing large sums, the volume of such operations has already fallen by 35%.

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☘️ It is reported, that a small Bitaxe miner with a hashrate of about 1 TH/s alone found Bitcoin block #957382 and received the full reward — 3.1382 BTC (about $200,000).

Such an event is almost unbelievable — instead of large mining farms, luck went to a home device the size of a small computer.

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