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☠️ Trader lost approximately $600,000 due to a fake CAPTCHA Cloudflare — a phishing page tricked him into launching a malicious file with administrator privileges, after which scammers gained access to crypto assets on the computer.

The phishing link was hidden in the token's metadata, which are automatically pulled by aggregators like DexScreener.

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🇷🇺 In Russia, they want to ban energy companies from engaging in mining themselves — FAS has prepared a bill that will deprive generating companies of the right to be operators of mining infrastructure.

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🪙 Bitcoin accounts for only 0.5% of global financial assets — about $1.6 trillion out of $342 trillion.

For perspective, stocks — $154 trillion, bonds — $143 trillion, gold — $31 trillion.

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🚬 Justin Nobel Sun decided to establish his own Justin Sun Prize — awards will be given for solving complex mathematical problems and formalizing them so that proofs can be machine-verified.

According to the founder of Tron, without mathematics, there would be no blockchains or a multi-trillion dollar crypto market — now he wants to specifically fund those who advance this foundation further.

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🇷🇺 Moscow Exchange launches perpetual futures on cryptocurrency indices on September 22.

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🇩🇪 German banking giant Deutsche Bank with assets of approximately $1.7 trillion enters cryptocurrency custody for institutional clients — the service is designed for banks, asset management companies, brokers, fintechs, and other large organizations.

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🪙 Circle launched the Arc mainnet — the network is already accepting transactions, and in the first two hours, over $370 million USDC were moved into it.

While the infrastructure is still raw — liquidity is low, and spreads and slippage can be noticeable.

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✖️ In X, they launched quick access to stock and crypto trading directly from Cashtag — you tap on a ticker, see a chart, and a Trade button.

The trade goes through partners — including Interactive Brokers, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase, for now, the feature only works in the US.

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🍿 Clarity Act did NOT gather the necessary 60 votes to move to the next stage.

The bill goes on hold.

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⚖️ Two employees of Robinhood were charged with insider trading — according to the investigation, they used non-public information about future Robinhood listings and opened positions on Hyperliquid in advance.

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🔮 Markets gamblers forecasts continue to grow — weekly trading volume, excluding sports, has for the first time reached $10 billion.

In just a month and a half, it has increased almost fourfold, and on September 12–13, platforms updated the daily record — up to $3.1 billion.

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🤣 A hacker tried to steal $7,800,000, but ended up with nothing — his transaction was noticed by an MEV bot and performed the same attack earlier, taking almost the entire amount.

Now Kelp DAO has frozen the bot's address, and the money has still not been returned to the wallet owner.

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan wants to use associated petroleum gas from oil fields for cryptocurrency mining — instead of flaring, it will be converted into electricity directly on site.

Under the program, miners will have to give the state 10% of the mined crypto.

It was previously reported that Binance wants to make Kazakhstan a settlement hub for CIS countries.

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🦊 MetaMask will automatically intervene in suspicious transactions — if after confirmation, the smart contract attempts to execute something other than what the wallet showed in the preview, the operation will automatically roll back.

Additionally, the wallet warns about address spoofing and transfers to new recipients, and now separately recognizes signs of investment and romance scam schemes right before sending funds.

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🛢 Polish oil giant Orlen lost over $424,000,000 trying to buy Venezuelan oil through a chain of intermediaries and payments in USDT.

Three chartered tankers arrived off the coast of Venezuela, however, the state-owned company Petróleos de Venezuela stated that payment had not been received, and the ships left without cargo.

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🪙 Solana more than tripled increased the amount of data that can be placed in a single transaction.

Now, more complex operations can be performed on the network — for example, with multiple signatures, corporate wallets, and applications with enhanced privacy.

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🪙 The Privacy sector turned out to be the only one in crypto that is still trading above its October 2025 highs — the growth is approximately 213%.

Against the backdrop of other segments, this looks almost like an anomaly.

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📊 Bitcoin is holding around $78,000, despite sales on spot, futures, and through ETFs — according to Glassnode, fresh capital is currently managing to buy out this pressure.

In other words, the level of $78,000 is currently acting as an important demand zone, but its strength depends on the continued influx of money.

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🪙 BitMine over the week additionally purchased another 27,180 ETH and now controls almost 5% of the total Ethereum supply.

Moreover, approximately 85% of its reserves — about 5 million ETH — the company has already staked.

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🍕 A courier came up with a double monetization for delivery —a homemade Bitcoin miner heats pizza with its heat, while simultaneously mining BTC.

According to a publication by Documenting Bitcoin, mining is his main hobby, and delivery is "for the soul."

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