🇹🇷 Turkey launched a large-scale crackdown on illegal betting — since the beginning of the year, 47,493 websites have been blocked and over 5,600 people have been detained.

The investigation also uncovered bank accounts and crypto wallets through which money was withdrawn — in one case, the network's turnover was estimated at approximately $4 billion.

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📊 Historically, Bitcoin bear markets have lasted an average of 383 days — if we count the current cycle from the crash in October 2025, it is already the 297th day.

If history repeats itself, there are about 86 days left until the possible end of the bear market — approximately until October 23, 2026.

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🇰🇪 Tether and Nairobi Securities Exchange will test USDT settlements, asset tokenization, and fractional securities trading.

The goal is to accelerate transactions in Kenya's $26.4 billion market and attract more local and foreign investors.

Previously, Tether invested $20,000,000 in the Argentinian neobank Ualá as part of expanding its presence in Latin America.

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⛔️ Aave closes 50 underutilized liquidity pools worth $100,000,000 — Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos will be most affected.

Some networks may completely lose support from the largest DeFi creditor.

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🚓 Pavel Durov included on Rosfinmonitoring's register of terrorists and extremists.

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🇮🇷 US imposed sanctions against Iranian company Hormuz Safe Marine Services Authority, which accepted crypto for passage through Hormuz.

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🇰🇷 In Seoul, arrested three scammers who stole XRP worth $8,500,000 from 71 investors — they posed as Flare Network developers and lured people into fake staking with a "guaranteed" return of up to 1.8% per month.

That's kinda low, here they usually offer 100500% per month 🚬

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🗽 American public companies hold 1,240,000 BTC — almost 93% of all corporate Bitcoin reserves in the world.

Over the past year, they bought an additional 510,000 BTC — more than three times what miners managed to mine during the same period.

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🚬 Co-founder of Opera and creator of Vivaldi Jon von Tetzchner called for banning cryptocurrencies, comparing them to other technologies that, in his opinion, are too easily used for manipulation and bypassing control.

He has long considered crypto a speculative system without real utility and previously promised not to add either a crypto wallet or built-in AI features to Vivaldi.

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🏦 Latin America's largest digital bank Nu is entering the US and launching an international multi-currency account based on USDC and EURC.

The bank already has over 140 million clients, and the new service will operate in more than 35 countries.

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🇪🇺 The EU has tightened requirements for manufacturers of crypto wallets and other connected software — an actively exploited vulnerability must be reported within 24 hours, and a full report submitted within a maximum of 72 hours.

The rules are being introduced as part of the Cyber Resilience Act and make the response to critical bugs significantly stricter.

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🇦🇪 UAE integrate Avalanche into the UAE PASS digital vault infrastructure — the country's national digital identity system.

Through UAE PASS, residents gain access to government services, sign documents, and store digital copies of official documents.

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🐋 Strive Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk's former associate from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), bought another 496 BTC last week — the company now holds 25,000 BTC.

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🏧 Bitcoin Bancorp bought out 2547 Bitcoin ATMs for only $620,750 after Bitcoin Depot's bankruptcy — which is about $244 per device.

Just recently, Bitcoin Depot's assets were valued at over $26,000 000, so the equipment effectively went for next to nothing.

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🍕 A courier came up with a double monetization for delivery —a homemade Bitcoin miner heats pizza with its heat, while simultaneously mining BTC.

According to a publication by Documenting Bitcoin, mining is his main hobby, and delivery is "for the soul."

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📊 Bitcoin is holding around $78,000, despite sales on spot, futures, and through ETFs — according to Glassnode, fresh capital is currently managing to buy out this pressure.

In other words, the level of $78,000 is currently acting as an important demand zone, but its strength depends on the continued influx of money.

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