DeCenter – Blockchain and Bitcoin

🏧 Bitcoin Bancorp bought out 2547 Bitcoin ATMs for only $620,750 after Bitcoin Depot's bankruptcy — which is about $244 per device.

Just recently, Bitcoin Depot's assets were valued at over $26,000 000, so the equipment effectively went for next to nothing.

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🐋 Strive Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk's former associate from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), bought another 496 BTC last week — the company now holds 25,000 BTC.

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🇦🇪 UAE integrate Avalanche into the UAE PASS digital vault infrastructure — the country's national digital identity system.

Through UAE PASS, residents gain access to government services, sign documents, and store digital copies of official documents.

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🇪🇺 The EU has tightened requirements for manufacturers of crypto wallets and other connected software — an actively exploited vulnerability must be reported within 24 hours, and a full report submitted within a maximum of 72 hours.

The rules are being introduced as part of the Cyber Resilience Act and make the response to critical bugs significantly stricter.

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🏦 Latin America's largest digital bank Nu is entering the US and launching an international multi-currency account based on USDC and EURC.

The bank already has over 140 million clients, and the new service will operate in more than 35 countries.

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🚬 Co-founder of Opera and creator of Vivaldi Jon von Tetzchner called for banning cryptocurrencies, comparing them to other technologies that, in his opinion, are too easily used for manipulation and bypassing control.

He has long considered crypto a speculative system without real utility and previously promised not to add either a crypto wallet or built-in AI features to Vivaldi.

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💸 Coinbase missed the quarter, reporting a $360,000,000 net loss — almost all key areas performed worse than forecasts.

Armstrong assures that the business no longer depends on Bitcoin's price, but the market has not yet believed him — shares fell by 5% after the report.

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🗽 American public companies hold 1,240,000 BTC — almost 93% of all corporate Bitcoin reserves in the world.

Over the past year, they bought an additional 510,000 BTC — more than three times what miners managed to mine during the same period.

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🇰🇷 In Seoul, arrested three scammers who stole XRP worth $8,500,000 from 71 investors — they posed as Flare Network developers and lured people into fake staking with a "guaranteed" return of up to 1.8% per month.

That's kinda low, here they usually offer 100500% per month 🚬

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🇮🇷 US imposed sanctions against Iranian company Hormuz Safe Marine Services Authority, which accepted crypto for passage through Hormuz.

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🚓 Pavel Durov included on Rosfinmonitoring's register of terrorists and extremists.

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⛔️ Aave closes 50 underutilized liquidity pools worth $100,000,000 — Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos will be most affected.

Some networks may completely lose support from the largest DeFi creditor.

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🇰🇪 Tether and Nairobi Securities Exchange will test USDT settlements, asset tokenization, and fractional securities trading.

The goal is to accelerate transactions in Kenya's $26.4 billion market and attract more local and foreign investors.

Previously, Tether invested $20,000,000 in the Argentinian neobank Ualá as part of expanding its presence in Latin America.

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📊 Historically, Bitcoin bear markets have lasted an average of 383 days — if we count the current cycle from the crash in October 2025, it is already the 297th day.

If history repeats itself, there are about 86 days left until the possible end of the bear market — approximately until October 23, 2026.

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🇹🇷 Turkey launched a large-scale crackdown on illegal betting — since the beginning of the year, 47,493 websites have been blocked and over 5,600 people have been detained.

The investigation also uncovered bank accounts and crypto wallets through which money was withdrawn — in one case, the network's turnover was estimated at approximately $4 billion.

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🤖 Claude Mythos in 60 hours found a variant of an attack on the post-quantum signature HAWK and reduced the key recovery complexity from 2⁶² to 2³⁸.

A test key was obtained in a few hours on a single server, and the AI accelerated the attack on truncated AES-128 by 200–800 times. Full AES-128 and protected versions of HAWK are NOT YET cracked.

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🇷🇺 The Bank of Russia will allow margin trading in cryptocurrency and digital rights for both qualified and ordinary investors.

For unqualified participants, separate limits will be introduced, which the regulator will establish later.

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🪙 Exactly 16 years ago Satoshi Nakamoto wrote on the BitcoinTalk forum the phrase that became iconic:

If you don't believe me or don't understand, I don't have time to convince you, sorry.

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⚖️ The founder of BitRiver Igor Runets was accused of fraud of almost 1 billion rubles during the supply of mining equipment to En+ structures.

After the new accusation, the court sent him from house arrest to a pre-trial detention center for two months.

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🇮🇳 In India, a darknet drug syndicate Team Kalki was liquidated — investigators, with the help of Binance analytics and blockchain data, tracked cryptocurrency movements, found associated wallets, and froze the criminals' assets.

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