🗣Reuters: 17-year-old teenager from Canada, Leiken Peiven, became part of a spy story — in 2023, he traveled to Donbass, but soon found himself in the hands of the FSB, where he was made an agent.
Peiven was tasked with going to Europe, and money for expenses began to be sent in BTC — first $130,000, then more. In total, he received over $500,000, which he was supposed to cash out in Poland. But already in Warsaw, frightened, he turned himself in to the police and confessed to connections with Russian intelligence. Later, the court sentenced him to 20 months in prison.
Experts found that his payments came from cryptocurrency wallets linked to the FSB. One of them conducted transactions totaling over $600 million. According to analysts, Moscow is increasingly using cryptocurrency to finance agents and evade sanctions.#BTC #ETH #xpr
— We want to emphasize that the foundations of Polyhedra remain strong, both in our technology and in the incredible support of our community. We continue to build and move forward, as planned. Today's price drop was caused by a series of anomalous transactions on the network in a very short period of time on the trading pair ZKJ/KOGE. Our team is closely studying the situation and will share more detailed information as soon as possible.
In general, yesterday there was an interview with Pavel Durov, the most important things learned are:
▪️The arrest in France was illegal — he spent four days without internet and communication ▪️Telegram does not hand over correspondence to the authorities, only IP addresses and phone numbers of suspects upon court request (so sleep peacefully little scammers😈) ▪️He stated that $TON has become the leader in daily trading volume of NFTs among all blockchains thanks to giveaways ▪️Telegram earned $500 million in a year — mostly thanks to the Premium subscription. ▪️Pasha uses a smartphone only for testing TG
🔴After France, it seems to me that for the next couple of years he won't fly anywhere from Dubai)))#TON
📱News: • James Wynn tried Long BTC again at $100 million, but was liquidated and now deeply regrets it. • CZ proposes to create a DEX with a dark pool for futures. • Donald Trump is launching a wallet, but it's not so straightforward, see this post. • Telegram received a major update. • Trump calls the Fed a "disaster" and calls for a 100 bps rate cut.
An unknown whale placed 1.4 billion dollars on the rise of Bitcoin by buying call options with targets of 112k$ by the end of July, and 140k$ by the end of September, and also paid 50m$ to purchase all of this #BTC