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Strategy did NOT buy Bitcoin last week and instead approved a $1 billion stock buyback. The company will also be able to sell up to $1.25 billion worth of Bitcoin to replenish its dollar reserves.
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Investors have been withdrawing money from spot Bitcoin ETFs for 7 consecutive weeks — a total of $7.8 billion has left the funds during this period.
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Vitalik Buterin published an article about obfuscation — one of the most powerful and complex tools in cryptography, which allows a program to run while showing the output but keeping its internal logic hidden.
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A VK employee convinced his mother in 2020 to buy company shares instead of making a deposit, at 2,000 ₽ per share. Now the investment shows a 90% loss, with the price around 194 ₽.
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In India, USDT suddenly became more expensive than the dollar — the stablecoin is trading at a premium of more than 8.5%, around 103 rupees per USDT.
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An American retiree lost $222,000 in a romance crypto scam. Another Russian woman also lost 7,000,000 rubles in a “crypto investment” scam.
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Loopring is shutting down its DEX — trading has already stopped, the relayer has been disabled, and user funds are promised to be automatically returned to wallets by the team.
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AI won a case in a British court for the first time — the AI prepared documents, witness statements, and the entire pre-trial process, allowing the client to recover a £7,000 debt.
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Azerbaijan plans to adopt crypto legislation by the end of 2026 — the central bank has already prepared a bill regulating the crypto asset market.
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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) stated that current USDT/USDC do not qualify as full-fledged money because they do not provide guaranteed exchange at face value between different issuers and blockchains.
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Bybit is ending services for EU users on its global platform and moving them to Bybit EU.
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Chainalysis proposed improving blockchain investigations so that the same crypto address does not appear clean in one AML service and suspicious in another.