🪙 17 years ago, on January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto sent the first Bitcoin transaction to Hal Finney.

Finney said that Satoshi’s identity was a mystery to him — he believed he was communicating with “a young man of Japanese origin, very intelligent and sincere.”

Reflecting on his experience in 2014, Finney later regretted his initial lack of interest in BTC:

After a few days, Bitcoin was running fairly stably, so I stayed online. Those were the days when the difficulty was 1, and you could mine on a CPU. Over the next days I mined a few blocks, but then I turned off my computer because it was getting hot and the fan noise was annoying.

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🖥 In 2025, solo miners found 36 Bitcoin blocks — earning 3.125 BTC per block plus transaction fees, averaging about $317 000 per block.

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🪙 Vitalik Buterin believes Ethereum should support applications as tools — like a hammer: you buy it, and it’s yours, independent of the provider, updates, or risks of shutdown, hacks, or rent extraction.

To achieve this, Ethereum needs full quantum resistance, a scalable architecture, a state model designed for decades, a proper gas schedule, a universal account model (full abstraction, moving beyond strict ECDSA dependency), a robust PoS economic model, and decentralized, censorship-resistant block construction.

Buterin emphasizes that at least one of these goals — preferably several — should be implemented every year.

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🪙 Strategy has acquired 13 627 BTC for $1.25 billion at $91 519 per Bitcoin.

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🗽 SEC Chair Paul Atkins said that the fate of Venezuela’s $60 billion in BTC remains a political rather than a regulatory issue, while the CLARITY bill is expected to put an end to uncertainty as early as this year by clearly delineating the powers of the SEC and the CFTC.

Regulators have pledged to work together and are betting on predictable rules to make the United States a global crypto capital; however, according to Senator John Boozman, consideration of the CLARITY bill has been postponed until the end of the month.

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💰 Yield-bearing stablecoins could turn into “shadow banking” because for users they look like regular deposits and even pay interest, while operating without strict banking oversight, JPMorgan says.

Therefore, the bank supports limiting stablecoin yields so they do not replace deposits without full regulatory control.

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💎 Over the past 24 hours, the crypto market has shown a clear rebound: Bitcoin climbed to $95 000, Ethereum is trading around $3 300, and leading altcoins gained 5–10% on the day.

The Fear & Greed Index has reached its highest level since October 2025, at 48.

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❌ A disruption has occurred on the Sui network — no new blocks have been produced for over one hour.

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🗽 The Senate Banking Committee has postponed consideration of the crypto market structure bill (the CLARITY Act) after Coinbase withdrew its support for the latest version of the legislation. Key issues with the bill include:

🔵 A de facto ban on tokenized equities.
🔵 Strict restrictions on DeFi that undermine financial privacy.
🔵 A weakening of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in favor of the SEC.
🔵 Amendments that could eliminate stablecoin yields and strengthen banks’ positions.

Senate Republicans have also stated that the market structure bill does not “serve the interests of the industry.”

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☠️ From mid-2021 to the end of 2025, out of approximately 20.2 million launched tokens, 53% turned out to be scams or became defunct.

The majority of failures occurred in 2025: 11.6 million tokens died last year alone, accounting for 86% of all token “deaths” over the past five years.

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