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#CryptoDigest

📊 Last week, the total net inflow into spot Bitcoin ETFs amounted to $2.39 billion.

☠️ The Indian exchange CoinDCX was hacked for $44,200,000.

🪙 Strategy acquired 6,220 BTC ($740 million) last week at an average price of $118,940 per coin.

🇺🇸 Five major U.S. banking associations are requesting a suspension of licenses for Ripple, Circle, and Fidelity.

🇬🇧 The UK Home Office is working on the sale of a confiscated BTC reserve worth $7 billion.

🇨🇳 The Chinese startup Conflux plans to launch a stablecoin based on offshore yuan in August.

🪙 Ethereum turns 10 years old — the first block was formed on July 20, 2015, and the mainnet was launched only on July 30.

🔧 Ethereum core developers have tentatively chosen November 2025 for the launch of a new hard fork called Fusaka, aimed at improving efficiency, scalability, and preparing the network for future loads.

🕵️‍♂️ Another user lost $1,230,000 due to signing a phishing transaction with an NFT.

🐋 The company Dynamix is merging with another project to create Ether Machine — a new structure that will acquire Ethereum worth over $1.5 billion for its balance.

#InvestorQuotes

«I always assess my risks, so I don't need to worry about them.» Tony Saliba

#TonySaliba

🇺🇸 US Banking Associations Against Issuing Licenses to Stablecoins.

💲 Five largest banking lobby associations (ABA, America’s Credit Unions, CBA, ICBA, NBA) are asking to stop the issuance of licenses for Circle, Ripple, and other crypto-entities.

⚡️ If the OCC still issues such charters, crypto-firms will gain direct access to the Fed's payment rails and favorable banking status without a full set of regulatory requirements. Bankers fear this will create a loophole, flooding the market with dozens of 'lightweight' competitors.

Traditional banks are afraid of competition but hide behind safety. They would be better off trying to enter the crypto space and corner the niche for themselves. 😐

#InvestorQuotes

«Sellers believe that the price is too high and will soon fall, while buyers think it is too low and should rise. ... In reality, the confidence of most traders is merely an illusion.» Daniel Kahneman

#DanielKahneman

🤡 We watch and admire!

At #JumeirahBeach, the one and only Pasha #Durov was spotted, as always in black and soaring up the steps like a Gigachad with insane confidence, "I am the main character of this simulation."

Next to him is Yulia Vavilova, his faithful companion, and a guy who looks like a paid interviewer for Lex Friedman.

As soon as the messiah noticed the camera, he walked as if preparing for $TON for $100. The walk of an alpha male, the steps barely survived such an onslaught. 💪

🇫🇷 According to a court decision, Pasha can now leave Paris for Dubai for 14 days. So we will see him more often)

But I have a question? I understand everything, okay to move at night in a cap when you haven't had time to wash your hair, but why does Durov wear a cap and glasses even in a dark gym? 😎

👃 The word "GOY" came from Jewish culture — it was used to refer to all non-Jews, outsiders.

Now this word is most often used as a meme label for ordinary people who: Are in the system, but do not realize that the system has them.

#InvestorQuotes

«I have never argued with prices. One can be offended by the market, but there is no benefit in that.» Jesse Livermore.

#JesseLivermore

🤨 After #Trump signed law #GENIUS on stablecoins, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen issued the following statement:

🗣 Quoting: Blockchain is the foundation of the next generation of payments. The U.S. dollar will move on-chain!

🇺🇸 The new law will help solidify the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency, now in the blockchain.

There is no reason to celebrate this; freedom has diminished. The foundation of the new law is strict oversight. 🔎

Now the Treasury has the right to block any suspicious transactions, and literally all stablecoins and crypto projects will depend on U.S. approval. 😏

🇬🇧 An analyst from the UK National Crime Agency received 5.5 years in prison for stealing 50 $BTC

💵 As the chief expert in the dark web and cryptocurrency, Paul Chouls was entrusted with access keys to crypto wallets seized from the co-founder of the dark web market Silk Road 2.0. Chouls sent 50 BTC to his address and then laundered it through a mixer.

📆 After 5 years, the police decided to re-investigate the transaction chain and found that the traces led to addresses where Chouls underwent KYC.

Such a drawn-out debacle occurred. For 5 years, the officer flaunted the stolen bitcoins, which were worth pennies back then, but now he could sell them for millions of dollars (but they were seized from him). 😆

🇺🇸 #ElonMusk announced a revolution in the application of stealth technologies in combat aviation

He shared publicly available technical documentation for the prototype aircraft XF-907, in the creation of which it was possible to achieve not just low visibility, but absolute invisibility thanks to the outer skin from the list of clients of Jeffrey Epstein

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📈 According to CoinGecko, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies has exceeded $4 trillion for the first time.

⛽️ A user paid a fee of 31.2 ETH ($112,700) for a single transaction.

🪒 This morning, Binance became the leader in liquidations of short sellers — one trader was liquidated for $22,490,000.

🪙 SharpLink Gaming will additionally raise $5 billion to purchase Ethereum.

🤖 OpenAI introduced a new universal AI agent in ChatGPT that can independently perform tasks on behalf of the user — for example, manage the calendar, create presentations, write and run code.

🪙 Adam Back sold BTC worth $9.5 billion over the last 3 days — last night he transferred the remaining 40,000 BTC to Galaxy Digital.

🗽 Thumzup Media, another company in the Trump family, received approval to create a treasury of $250,000,000 in BTC, XRP, DOGE, and other cryptocurrencies.

🇦🇺 In Australia, they are launching mortgages secured by BTC.

🪙 Yesterday, July 17, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen transferred $30,000,000 in XRP to the Coinbase exchange, and the next day the coin hit an all-time high of $3.65.

🚓 A British officer received over 5 years in prison for stealing 50 BTC seized from the co-founder of the darknet market Silk Road 2.0.

#InvestorQuotes

"One should risk no more than one can afford to lose, but at the same time enough to ensure that the gain is substantial." Ed Seykota

#EdwardSeykota

🚕 In the USA, a meme is circulating that $XRP is exclusively held by taxi drivers.

The coin has updated its historical maximum, and it seems that soon everyone will have to move around on foot. 🤣

😂 #Trezor created a genius advertisement out of the billionaire's scandal with infidelity!

While the entire internet is laughing at Andy Byron, who was caught with his mistress by a kissing camera at a Coldplay concert, the SMM specialists at Trezor decided not to waste any time and launched a subtle advertisement for their device.

The catch is that the wife found out about all this, and now the billionaire faces divorce with the loss of half his fortune. 😏

🇺🇸 Integration of crypto into the US financial system — is it all awesome or not?

💬 Many crypto channels spread disinfo, claiming that all 3 acts have already been passed and life is a bed of roses. Let's figure out the facts:
🟢 GENIUS Act (stablecoins within the banking system): Everything has been passed, only #Trump's signature is left;
🟠 CLARITY Act (delineates SEC and CFTC, more freedom for crypto in the market): The House has passed it, but now it's up to the Senate, and half of them are still problematic;
🟠 Anti-CBDC Act (ban on digital dollar): Just barely passed the House, Democrats in the Senate will fight it with all their might.

🤔 It's funny that on Tuesday, July 15, all 3 laws were rejected, Trump called the rebels to the White House and gave them a hard time there. By Thursday, everything was already passed, at least somewhere and on the edge.

This is definitely a green light for crypto, but there’s still a long way to go for proper integration into the banking system, just like Pasha Durov has a long way to go to enter the West. 😭

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🪙 Last night, Ethereum reached a multi-month price peak of $3,400 and is currently ranked 26th in the global ranking of world assets with a market capitalization of $400 billion.

🇪🇺 A new agency to combat money laundering, AMLA, has started operating in the European Union. Starting this month, it will introduce strict regulations for all crypto companies.

🇫🇷 In France, a bill has been introduced to launch a 5-year pilot project for Bitcoin mining using surplus energy from nuclear power plants.

🤖 OpenAI is preparing to earn from purchases directly within ChatGPT — the company is already testing an ordering feature in the chat with partners such as Shopify.

🇹🇭 Thai authorities plan to launch a nationwide "crypto sandbox" so that tourists can freely pay with cryptocurrency throughout the country.

🇰🇷 The largest Korean crypto exchange Upbit may face a record fine of up to $131 billion for more than 9.5 million violations of KYC rules.

🪙 Since 2020, the number of USDT users has increased 160 times — from 2.8 million to 450 million people.

🪙 BlackRock has applied to add staking to its Ethereum ETF.

#InvestorQuotes

«The older I get, the better I see where to go. If you are going to hunt elephants, don't get distracted by rabbits.» Thomas Boone Pickens

#ThomasBoonePickens

🍊 BNB Chain is working on creating a blockchain where transfers are as fast as on an exchange.

💸 The goal is for swaps in DeFi to feel just like buying on the spot (well, almost). BNB Chain aims to reduce transaction time to 150ms and achieve network speed of 20,000 TPS.

🖱 Currently, they have achieved a block time of 750ms and the completion of an entire transaction in 1.9 seconds.

Decentralization with normal validators, but with a delay of only 150ms — this is indeed strong, but they will likely not succeed in this. 💩

⚡️ By 2030, quantum computers will emerge that can compute private keys and steal crypto — Bitcoin developers propose a solution.

📣 Scientists predict that within 5 years, such powerful quantum factories will appear that it will be possible to compute the private key to crypto from the public key.

In this regard, several developers led by Jameson Lopp have submitted a draft BIP "Post-Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset" to GitHub. According to the plan:
1️⃣ Prohibit sending coins to wallets where the public key is immediately visible;
2️⃣ Completely freeze old wallets (around 2010) with such storage types, so that Bitcoin cannot be withdrawn from them;
3️⃣ Optionally — add a method to unlock such old wallets for real owners.

🤯 Approximately 25% of the total supply (total volume) $BTC lies in vulnerable wallets with an open public key.

If there are crypto magnates among our audience with billions of dollars in Bitcoin in old wallets — it is worth taking care of their security. In other cases — we don’t care. 😏

📈 After the hype around Bitcoin's ATH, the whales' attention has shifted to $ETH , which is now almost overshadowing Bitcoin — the price remains above $3,400. Many gamblers are waiting for it to reach $10k. Yesterday, ETH-ETF funds saw inflows like in 2 years.