🐈 In China, a Bitcoin mining center suddenly shut down — not due to a malfunction, but because stray cats, attracted by the warmth of the devices, curled up on the equipment and blocked the cooling system.

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💳 Visa is launching a pilot service that enables businesses to make payments in U.S. dollar stablecoins to crypto wallets from fiat-funded accounts.

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🪙 Peter Thiel, the legendary investor who was among the founders of PayPal and Facebook, stated that Bitcoin has effectively been “captured” by major financial institutions and the state.

According to him, the ideological core of cryptocurrencies — cypherpunk anarchism and decentralization — has been lost: today, BTC is convenient even for the FBI, which indicates full institutionalization.

Thiel admitted that he still holds a small position but has lost faith in Bitcoin as a tool of freedom: “It seems we didn’t get a revolution — we got a BlackRock ETF instead.”

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🪙 Circle, the issuer of USDC, plans to launch a native coin for its own blockchain, ARC.

Recently, we reported that Circle has begun testing the ARC blockchain with major institutional partners, including BlackRock, Visa, AWS, and Anthropic.

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🗽 The U.S. government is back in operation — Donald Trump has signed bill H.R. 5371, officially ending the record-breaking shutdown.

Federal agency funding has been extended through January 30, 2026.

The shutdown lasted 43 days, marking the longest in the nation’s history.

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🪙 Activity on the Solana network has dropped to a yearly low — the number of active wallets has fallen to 3.3 million, nearly three times lower than the January peak.

The decline in interest toward memecoins has led to reduced user activity, though Solana still maintains a strong position in DeFi with a total liquidity of around $10 billion.

Experts note that relying too heavily on a single trend makes the ecosystem vulnerable to shifts in market sentiment.

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👁️ Trading of NVIDIA stock has launched on Hyperliquid.

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📊 Wintermute released a report noting that the correlation between BTC and the Nasdaq-100 index remains very high — around 0.8.

Yet despite this apparent “friendship,” Bitcoin doesn’t really benefit from the stock market’s strengths; it tends to move in sync with it mainly when things are getting worse.

The analysts also emphasized that this kind of negative asymmetry — when an asset reacts to the downside but doesn’t join in on the upside — has historically appeared not near market tops, but closer to the bottom.

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🚬 On X (Twitter), posts are gaining traction as users try to “decode” Changpeng Zhao’s updates, seeing hints about BTC’s movements.

Back in March, when BTC dropped to $84 000, CZ mentioned he was working on a draft of his book with 114 000 words — and about a month later, Bitcoin rose, broke through $114 000, and reached new highs.

On November 8, with BTC around $103 000, he referred to 97 000 words and 300 pages. After BTC briefly fell to $96 000, it bounced back to $97 000, and Zhao added: “Every bottom feels like the end of the world. But time goes on.”

Now users are speculating whether there’s a hidden meaning in his posts — and particularly what the number 300 might signify.

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