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#USElectronicsTariffs

The impact of #USElectronicsTariffs on the crypto market is subtle but important. While tariffs directly target physical goods like semiconductors, chips, and electronics, there’s a ripple effect that can touch the crypto world in a few ways:

1. Mining Hardware Costs

If tariffs apply to Chinese electronics and components like GPUs, ASICs, or semiconductors:
• Mining becomes more expensive.
• This can squeeze profit margins for miners, especially in the U.S.
• May reduce mining activity domestically or shift it to regions with cheaper equipment and power.

2. Blockchain Infrastructure

Companies building crypto infrastructure (nodes, data centers, validators) rely on high-end electronics. Tariffs could:
• Raise setup and operational costs for these companies.
• Potentially slow innovation or expansion, especially for newer projects.

3. Market Sentiment

Tariffs often signal broader geopolitical tensions (e.g., U.S.-China trade relations). That can:
• Spook investors — increased uncertainty may lead to short-term market volatility.
• Cause money to shift toward or away from risk-on assets like crypto.

4. Decentralization Incentive

Ironically, rising costs due to tariffs could further decentralize the crypto space:
• Miners and infrastructure builders might look beyond traditional supply chains.
• Push toward innovation in alternative hardware or cloud mining models.

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Bottom line: tariffs don’t hit crypto directly, but the infrastructure backbone of the industry feels it. If they continue or intensify, expect increased costs, shifting mining patterns, and some strategic realignments in how and where crypto networks are powered.

🚨BREAKING: Trump has announced on Truth Social that the US will build a "Crypto Strategic Reserve that includes XRP, SOL, and ADA."$SOL $XRP $ADA

JUST IN: Bybit Acquires 17,500 $ETH worth $48.6 million in OTC Deal with Galaxy Digital.#BybitSecurityBreach #GalaxyDigital $BTC

📊 $BTC ROI after each halving ($BTC Bitcoin mining profit split)!

🔵 Round 1
🔴 Round 2
🟠 Round 3
🟢 Round 4 (Ongoing now 👀) #BTC☀️

US Stock Market Disaster! 🇺🇸📉

$927 billion wiped off the market in one day, making it the worst day of 2025 so far! 😱🔥

Is this just a natural tremor or the beginning of a bigger collapse? 🤔👇
#StockMarketSuccess #StocksDown $BTC

🚨 Korean Lazarus Group 🇰🇵 Converts Stolen Bybit Coins to $BTC !

🔸 Lazarus Group has started transferring the stolen $ETH from ByBit to Chainflip to convert it to Bitcoin.
🔸 Chainflip announced that it has limited some front-end services but cannot completely block transactions because it is a decentralized protocol.
🔸 So far, over $1.1 million has been converted from ETH to BTC!
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They made you panic sell your Ethereum

Now they will pump it

Thanks for playing

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Bybit CEO confirms that all withdrawals were successful and the system is back to normal, and you can withdraw any amount without delay.

But when I tried to withdraw $USDT, I found that all networks were suspended except $ETH
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Anyone else facing the same problem?
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🔹 Bitcoin
🔹 I noted yesterday that a visit to 94-95 is possible, and it actually reached 95000 and rebounded from there. Holding above this support and returning above the drawn trend line is a positive sign, and the level of 98600 remains ahead of it $BTC

JUST IN: #BYBIT HACKER BURNED 42M$ WORTH OF cmETH#BybitSecurityBreach #eth $ETH $ETH
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#1000RATS/USDT 📈

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The Lazarus Group has a long history of targeting cryptocurrency exchanges, with previous attacks including the $620 million Ronin hack in 2022 and the $41 million theft from Stake.com in 2023.

The group used sophisticated techniques in the Bybit attack — such as hiding the signature interface — including social engineering and exploiting vulnerabilities in smart contracts.

The US government and cybersecurity experts have long tracked the Lazarus Group for its role in multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency heists. #BybitSecurityBreach $ETH

🚨 BREAKING: North Korea announces the creation of a strategic reserve of Ethereum! 🇰🇵 😅$ETH
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🚨 Every major heist the Lazarus Group has ever pulled off:

🔥 These aren’t just hacks… they’re financial warfare, and no one is stopping them!

1️⃣ Bybit 💰 ($1.46B - 2025) – The biggest exchange hack ever.
2️⃣ Ronin Bridge 🔗 ($625M - 2022) – Axie Infinity’s money went to North Korea.
3️⃣ Horizon Bridge 🎭 ($100M - 2022) – Social engineering + fake job offers = huge losses.
4️⃣ Atomic Wallet 🏦 ($100M - 2023) – Users woke up to empty accounts.
5️⃣ CoinEx 🌐 ($70M - 2023) – Hot wallets drained, funds scattered across networks.
6️⃣ Stake 🎰 ($41M - 2023) – Casino hacked, stole “casino” money and got out safely.
7️⃣ Poloniex 💀 ($120M - 2023) – One of the oldest trading platforms.. disappeared overnight.
8️⃣ Sony 🎮 ($3M - 2023) – They targeted an employee and laundered USDT via Tornado Cash.
9️⃣ Mango Markets 🍋 ($114M - 2022) – Price manipulation, small investors paid the price.#BybitSecurityBreach #eth $ETH

A new coronavirus has been discovered in China
"HKU5-CoV-2"
, and it is likely to have an effect similar to that of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic

Today's market is concerned about the seriousness of the research that came out, that the virus can bind to the human ACE2 receptor, which is the same receptor that the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses, which raises concerns about the risk of the virus being transmitted from animals to humans!#coronavirus $BTC

Bybit continues to lose liquidity after hack.
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Probably due to users' concerns about the platform's ability to handle the hack.#BybitSecurityBreach #eth #eth #

In 2016, the DAO protocol was hacked and $60 million worth of Ethereum was stolen.

At that time, the Ethereum community agreed to do a hard fork of the network, meaning to restore the record again to a point before the protocol was hacked, to return the assets back to the protocol.

Could we see something similar today?

The amount of money stolen from Bybit is 23 times larger than the amount of assets stolen from the DAO protocol when the blockchain was forked.#BybitSecurityBreach $ETH