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🇷🇺 The European Union is considering sanctions which could force major crypto exchanges to limit or completely close access for Russian users — Bybit, OKX, and Gate are named as being in the highest risk zone, whereas for Binance and other platforms already complying with EU sanctions requirements, the situation is unlikely to change significantly.

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🏦 Billionaire Tim Draper believes that quantum computers are more likely to create problems for banks with their outdated infrastructure than for Bitcoin — in his opinion, even with the emergence of a real threat, the BTC network will be able to adapt, whereas the traditional financial system will prove to be much less flexible.

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🔮 Prediction platform Kalshi tightened control after a series of insider trading scandals — now traders "in sensitive markets" are required to disclose their place of employment.

In the first quarter alone, the company blocked over 100 suspicious transactions and referred over 20 cases to law enforcement agencies.

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📶 Cardano is accused of a possible insider leak — according to an on-chain analysis, in 2021, approximately 1.5 billion ADA could have been withdrawn from wallets linked to IOHK at a price of $1 to $3 — at the price peak.

There is no direct evidence against Charles Hoskinson, but the transactions occurred at the peak of the project's hype.

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🤣 CZ stated that Bitcoin will not be dead for too long.

Do we believe?

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💳 The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law limiting the number of bank cards to 20 per person — banks will also receive the right to block or limit suspicious payments.

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🇪🇺 The European Union, as part of the 21st package of sanctions, wants to strike crypto services from third countries that help Russia circumvent restrictions.

The measures could affect 12 crypto platforms and dozens of Russian banks — this could be the largest expansion of sanctions against the Russian banking sector.

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🚬 The Russian Ministry of Finance allowed the launch of an experiment with non-custodial crypto wallets after the adoption of the law on cryptocurrency market regulation — currently, the authorities are betting on storing cryptocurrency through licensed intermediaries, but in the future they may test a more free model, which market participants are actively discussing.

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🪙 Circle launched cirBTC — wrapped BTC for institutional DeFi.

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🦅 In Russia, they want to oblige crypto exchanges to automatically withhold personal income tax (PIT) from clients, as is already planned for brokers and other market participants.

If the initiative is adopted, users will not have to calculate the tax themselves — exchanges will do it for them and transfer the money to the budget.

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📊 Arthur Hayes believes that Bitcoin is currently under pressure not from weak demand, but from the AI ​​boom — large amounts of money are flowing into AI companies, infrastructure, and future IPOs, making crypto's liquidity much weaker.

Against this backdrop, his Maelstrom fund dumped HYPE, NEAR, WLD, and ZEC, leaving only BTC and ETH.

Saylor voiced a similar idea.

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🇷🇺 Russian authorities plan to restrict access for unqualified investors to some cryptocurrencies that the authorities deem risky — even USDT and BNB could fall under these restrictions, buying them will not be prohibited, but additional fees, risk warnings, and other protective measures may be introduced.

The main argument of officials is — issuers of such coins are capable of freezing user assets. A complete ban was discussed, but the market opposed it, so the authorities decided to leave access to these assets, strengthening control and investor protection.

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☠️ Hackers breached the Humanity Protocol, causing $32 000 000 in damage.

ZachXBT, however, doubts the team's version of events and admits that it may not have been a regular hack, but an internal scheme.

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🇨🇳 A court in China sentenced the thief of 107 BTC to 10 years in prison, recognizing Bitcoin as property.

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🇦🇪 Crypto businessman Arut Nazaryan in the UAE was sentenced to two years in prison and a fine of 200 million dirhams (4 billion rubles) — for operating a crypto exchange without a license.

According to media reports, the fine was calculated as the total trading volume on the platform, and Nazaryan himself has been in custody for almost half a year.

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💸 Strategy bought more 1550 BTC ($101.3 million), despite FUD surrounding the potential sale of coins.

Now the company's balance holds 845 256 BTC, the average purchase price is $75,680 per 1 BTC.

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☠️ User lost about $4,500,000 in rETH after 13 wallets were hacked — analysts believe that access could have been gained through malware on the victim's device.

Part of the funds were saved — the owner managed to withdraw another approximately $4.7 million before the hackers continued to clear the wallets.

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🐳 A whale played the correction beautifully — before the drop, sold ETH, wstETH, and WBTC for almost $190 million, and after the crash, bought back the assets cheaper.

By rough estimates, such a rearrangement gave him up to $38,000,000 in savings on entry.

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🚓 In Dagestan, an illegal mining farm with 90 devices and a total capacity of about 315 kW was found under a false floor.

The equipment operated without a contract with the energy supply company; it was seized, and the damages are now being calculated.

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🐹 ZachXBT accused Arthur Hayes of a Pump & Dump scheme, stating that he first actively promotes tokens, and then unloads positions onto his own subscribers — Hayes, in response, told everyone to f*ck off, stating that he is simply taking profit as part of his trading strategy.

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