💳 Mastercard joined the Blockchain Security Standards Council, which develops security standards for the blockchain and crypto industry.

The company will share its expertise in payment protection and participate in creating unified rules for the secure scaling of the market.

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🪙 Global adoption of Bitcoin is currently around 3% — this is the level of the internet in the 90s and social networks before the mass explosion.

Usually, only after 5% does rapid growth begin due to the network effect.

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📊 By the way, we have crypto rates directly in Telegram — always up-to-date prices at your fingertips.

Currently available are BTC, ETH and TON.

🪙 Anatoly Yakovenko proposes a radical approach: completely "immutable" software without admin keys, where even the author cannot edit the code.

As an experiment, he launched a risk engine with a 5 SOL pool and publicly challenged anyone to hack the system and steal the funds.

The idea is simple: remove the main source of attacks in DeFi—human access and the ability to change the rules of the game.

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🪙 The film Finding Satoshi puts forward the theory that two people were behind Satoshi Nakamoto: Hal Finney and Len Sassaman: the former handled the code, the latter handled the texts and communications.

The authors cite similar digital footprints, both men's involvement in the cryptographic community, and oddities in Satoshi's activity, which are more easily explained by the pair working together.

An additional argument is that Satoshi disappeared in 2011, and both candidates are now deceased, which could explain the untouched bitcoins.

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🪙 Total volume of transactions with USDC all-time exceeded $80 trillion.

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💸 Hacker who hacked KelpDAO swapped 75 700 ETH via THORChain — due to the enormous transaction volume, the laundering brought the service $800 million in volume and approximately $910,000 in fee revenue.

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🖥 The Federal Tax Service of Russia (FTS) additionally charged a miner from St. Petersburg 17 000 000 rubles, although he declared income as an individual — with a profit of only 81 000 rubles.

The tax authority believes that the status of an individual entrepreneur (IE) applies to all activities, including mining, and requires taxes to be calculated under the general system. Lawyers note that the approach is controversial and can be challenged, but the process will be long.

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