🔫 In London, a gang that kidnapped a 'crypto-millionaire' was convicted, who had only $9 in his wallet.
🚬 Arthur Hayes published a new essay, stating that by the end of the year he expects Bitcoin to rise to $250,000 and Ethereum to $10,000.
⛪️ A pastor from Colorado and his wife are accused of cryptocurrency fraud amounting to $3,400,000.
💤 Bitcoin holders who bought crypto 5 years ago are starting to 'wake up' — today they transferred 10,606 BTC (approximately $1.26 billion) to unknown wallets.
🪙 Last night, $BNB reached a historic high above $800.
🪙 About 519,000 ETH worth $1.9 billion are waiting to exit staking — the largest figure since January 2024.
🪙 Tether disclosed part of its investment portfolio — the CEO reported that the issuer of USDT has already invested in over 120 companies, and this number will grow.
📊 Shares of companies that are buying altcoins are rising faster than the coins themselves — on average, by 150% in a day and over 220% in a month, while cryptocurrency rates hardly change.
🪙 Jack Dorsey's Square company is starting to deploy devices for purchasing goods with BTC.
🗽 Tether's leadership visited the White House, and now the company is working on entering the U.S. market.
💵 Yesterday, someone transferred 41,66 BTC three times from the exchange wallets #Kraken to clean wallets (a total of $1.5 billion).
➡️ The transferred crypto accounts for ~6% of their total reserve of $BTC .
⚡️ Most likely — this is just a simple transfer of Bitcoin to a new storage, but the timing of the transactions surprisingly coincided day for day with the closure of the FBI case against the exchange's founder.
Just a transfer to another storage or are big players having fun? 😔
🌱 The corporation decided to atone for the carbon sins of its data centers — and signed the most expensive eco-contract in history: more than $1 billion to inject 5 million tons of crap into the ground.
The project is implemented by Vaulted Deep — a company that buries manure to reduce the carbon footprint. Microsoft will be dumping crap from farms and slaughterhouses for 12 years.
🧠 It turns out that while some generate through AI, others are burying crap to prevent the world from overheating.
💵 More than 3500 websites have been infected with a sophisticated Monero miner.
🏖 The classic Coinhive died back in 2019, but the method has returned in a much more hidden form.
🖱 The hacker script evaluates the computer's power and limits the load to only 10-15% to remain unnoticed. The script stops if DevTools are open and reduces the hash rate at the first sign of overheating.
Primarily, WordPress and e-commerce CMS websites have been affected. With moderate traffic, hackers can siphon off tens of thousands of dollars from users each month, which is decent, but far from the Coinhive records (which earned around $250k a month). 😐
🌐 Western Union is considering the integration of payments in stablecoins.
🛰 For the first time in 3 years, Elon Musk's SpaceX transferred part of its crypto — 1308 BTC ($152 million) was sent to an unknown address.
🇲🇽 The Mexican construction company Grupo Murano is investing $1 billion in BTC — they plan to expand their Bitcoin treasury to $10 billion over 5 years.
🪙 The company SharpLink Gaming purchased an additional 79,949 ETH ($300,000,000) to its balance.
📊 In the second quarter of 2025, crypto traders continued to transition from centralized exchanges (CEX) to decentralized exchanges (DEX).
🪙 The price of Solana reached $200 today — the first time since early February.
🐸 Crypto-punk Adam Back, who recently sold Bitcoin for $9.5 billion, stated that "There are many altcoins and meme tokens. Bitcoin is the only scarce asset."
😂 Beware, schoolchildren have invented a new way to scam.
🪙 Hackers infected over 3,500 websites with a hidden Monero miner — malware gets onto vulnerable sites (most often WordPress and e-commerce) and runs a script in visitors' browsers that mines cryptocurrency.
"Others are ashamed of their mistakes; for me, the awareness of my own mistakes is a source of pride. As soon as we realize that imperfect understanding is one of the traits of human nature, we will understand that it is not shameful to make mistakes, but it is shameful not to be able to correct our own mistakes." George Soros
💵 The largest American bank #JPMorgan will start issuing loans secured by $BTC and $ETH
💲 JPM will organize a crypto-backed loan program as early as 2026. This will be the first instance where a major American bank accepts raw crypto assets.
➡️ Jamie Dimon recently called bitcoin a "fraud," but now he is turning 180° — the bank sees demand from family offices and hedge funds that do not want to sell crypto during market growth but need dollar liquidity.
Since June 2025, JPMorgan has already accepted ETFs as collateral, but on-chain crypto is a new level. 🧠
📊 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.
🇺🇸 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. 😐
«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
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? 😎
🇬🇧 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
📈 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.