Daily Recap — April 23

Lead stories

Tether froze 344M USDT on the Tron network at the request of U.S. authorities

The European Union approved its 20th sanctions package against Russia, with a focus on the crypto market — platforms, companies, and services linked to Russia were targeted

The film “Finding Satoshi” suggests that Satoshi Nakamoto may have been two people: Hal Finney (code) and Len Sassaman (communications)

Pavel Durov said that within a week, fees on the TON network will drop 6x, and most transactions will become completely free

France is seeing a rise in crypto-related kidnappings — 41 incidents have already been reported this year

Russia’s Federal Tax Service of Russia charged a miner in St. Petersburg an additional ₽17M in taxes, despite reported profits of just ₽81,000

Belarus approved a crypto bank model — initially supporting 26 cryptocurrencies and 11 types of operations

Anthropic is overtaking OpenAI — its valuation on the secondary market has surpassed $1T, with strong demand

U.S. Admiral Samuel Paparo said the military has launched its own Bitcoin node to study and secure the network

Total transaction volume using USD Coin has exceeded $80T

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Anatoly Yakovenko proposed a radical approach — fully immutable software without admin keys, where even the creator cannot modify the code

Kalshi blocked three U.S. politicians for betting on their own elections

The KelpDAO hacker swapped 75,700 ETH via THORChain — generating about $800M in volume and roughly $910K in fees ⏳ Today marks 15 years since Satoshi Nakamoto’s last post on Bitcointalk, where he wrote: “I’ve moved on to other things”

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