🇨🇳 On the homepage of Alipay, China's largest payment platform with over 1 billion users, an advertisement for cryptocurrency funds has appeared.

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💭 Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) shared valuable advice for startups:

«Instead of endless pitches and selfies at conferences, focus on building a minimum viable product (MVP)».

He encouraged startups to skip the empty talk and showcase real achievements — a good product speaks for itself.

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🇺🇸 The United States has sentenced a person to two years in prison for tax evasion on cryptocurrency income for the first time.

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📈 According to statistics, the strategy is simple: buy Bitcoin 500 days before the halving, hold it without taking any action, and sell it 500 days after the halving.

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🚕 A scammer posed as a requested Uber driver. Claiming that his phone had been hacked, he took passengers' phones and transferred cryptocurrency from their wallets. In total, he stole around $300 000 from two victims.

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🇹🇭 Bitcoin may gain legal tender status in Thailand — The country's Prime Minister has instructed the Ministry of Finance to establish a dedicated "sandbox."

Authorities are also exploring the possibility of issuing stablecoins as an alternative to printing banknotes.

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⚡️ MicroStrategy has acquired 15 350 BTC for $1.5 billion at $100 386 per Bitcoin.

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🇳🇬 In Nigeria, 792 people were arrested on suspicion of participating in a large-scale cryptocurrency fraud scheme (crypto romance scam) based on social engineering and personal relationships with victims.

The arrests took place on December 10 in Lagos, where fake investment schemes were being created. Among those detained were 148 Chinese nationals, 40 Filipinos, and Nigerians who recruited victims from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The scammers used phishing and social media to extort money through fake investment opportunities.

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🇩🇪 The German financial conglomerate Deutsche Bank is creating its own L2 network based on ZKsync technology.

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🇨🇳 The Chinese company Cango, specializing in automotive services, has unexpectedly become the third-largest Bitcoin miner in the world.

The company plans to spend around $400 million on purchasing Antminer S19 XPs. This will allow it to reach Marathon’s total hashrate level if the deal for an additional 18 EH/s is completed.

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