☠️ ChatGPT helped a San Jose woman realize she had fallen victim to a major crypto scam — after nearly a year of chatting with a “romantic” online acquaintance, she trusted him enough to invest about $1 000 000 into nonexistent crypto opportunities.

When he demanded another million “to unlock her account,” she turned to the AI for advice — and received an immediate warning that the situation matched a classic fraud scheme.

That warning stopped her just in time: she cut off contact, and police later confirmed that her money had been transferred overseas by the scammers.

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❌ Last night, a hacker hacked Binance's WeChat account and promoted the MUBARAKAH scheme, earning $55 000.

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🗽 In the US, banks have received official permission to conduct cryptocurrency transactions for the first time — the OCC has authorized them to act as intermediaries without holding assets on their balance sheets.

Now, Americans will be able to purchase crypto directly through their banks, and financial institutions will be able to create their own crypto services.

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🍿 After a decade of silence, 312 wallets linked to the Silk Road darknet marketplace suddenly transferred $3.14 million worth of bitcoin to an unknown address.

According to Arkham, these wallets still hold roughly $38.5 million in assets.

Earlier, we reported that Ulbricht has been considering launching his own marketplace again.

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📊 After a turbulent November, the crypto market has effectively “reset” — leverage has come down, speculative interest has cooled, and many risky positions have been flushed out, according to Coinbase Institutional.

As a result, the market structure looks healthier and is now less vulnerable to sharp year-end drawdowns.

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🤖 The Aster team has launched a trading tournament featuring 70 people and 30 AI bots. Each participant received $10 000 in starting capital.

The developers will cover any losses, while traders get to keep any profits they make.

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🪙 The investment director at Bitwise presented a valuation model suggesting that a target price of $1 300 000 per BTC by 2035 is actually conservative.

It assumes that Bitcoin’s share of gold’s market capitalization will grow from 9% to 25%.

Moreover, given the current pace of gold’s market cap expansion, even a $1 million target for BTC now appears almost understated.

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🧱 The New York Stock Exchange has become the sixth location to host a statue of Satoshi Nakamoto.

The artist plans to place 21 such statues around the world — a likely reference to Bitcoin’s maximum supply of 21 million BTC.

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🗽 Anchorage Digital — the only federally licensed crypto bank in the United States — is launching USDGO, a stablecoin backed by U.S. Treasury securities.

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📺 American bloggers will be able to receive YouTube payouts in PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin.

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💰 Terra Luna Founder Do Kwon officially sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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🪙 15 years ago, on December 12, 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto posted his final message on the BitcoinTalk forum — discussing issues related to DoS attacks on the network.

After that, Satoshi continued to exchange a few private emails with individual developers, but never appeared on any forums again.

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🍿 Netflix teases comedy movie about missing $35M crypto password.

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🇮🇹 Tether Submits Proposal to Acquire Juventus Football Club.

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🗽 The SEC released a guide for retail investors on how to store crypto safely.

It explains different types of crypto wallets, their pros and cons, and basic digital security practices.

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