🇫🇷 A cryptoblogger was kidnapped in France - but released when they found out he was destitute

🖤 Four men beat up a 26-year-old cryptoblogger and forced him into a stolen car, demanding a €50,000 ransom in crypto. However, after checking his wallet and finding no funds, they let him go the very next day.

🖤 The victim has about 40,000 followers. Police say he was not seriously injured. The investigation is ongoing.

🪙 A fact from the past: in 2011, a cryptan mined 1 BTC a day right from his bedroom

Back then it cost $800 to mine one bitcoin, today it's about $65,000.

🇨🇦 Canadian agriFORCE has launched a site with 120 ASIC miners running on previously burned natural gas. 7 BTC have already been mined - the company keeps 50% of the coins in reserve and uses the rest for scaling.

The company plans to launch two more sites in Alberta, which will increase the total capacity to 1.3 MW and allow it to achieve a hash rate of 1 EH/s by early 2026.

🎰 Even the rich are running out of money - popular ludic James Wynn has admitted he's completely broke.

Eh, no more “movie” �

📈 Bitcoin Reclaims $106K After Trump’s Israel-Iran Ceasefire — Is $110K Next?

Bitcoin bounced back above the $106,000 mark on Monday, following a brief drop below $98,500 on Sunday, the lowest level in 45 days.

Crypto speak: Red flag

A “red flag” is an alarm or ominous sign indicating a problem with a crypto project.

For example, you’re researching an NFT collection and see that its funders are new to the NFT world and aren’t known in the community. That’s a red flag.

Or, say, the collection’s website is unkempt with grammatical errors—indeed, that’s another red flag.

🔼 Top 20 cryptocurrencies with growth potential in Q3 2025 - data from Grayscale.

🔴Bitcoin (BTC)
🔴Ethereum (ETH)
🔴Solana (SOL)
🔴Hyperliquid (HYPE)
🔴Sui (SUI)
🔴Chainlink (LINK)
🔴Avalanche (AVAX)
🔴Uniswap (UNI)
🔴Aave (AAVE)
🔴Bittensor (TAO)
🔴Ethena (ENA)
🔴Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL)
🔴Story Protocol (IP)
🔴Aerodrome (AERO)
🔴Jito (JTO)
🔴Maple (SYRUP)
🔴Morpho (MORPHO)
🔴Helium (HNT)
🔴Grass (GRASS)
🔴Geodnet (GEOD)

Stablecoin supply on ethereum has reached an all-time high of ~$135 billion.

Compared to January '24, the supply has almost doubled.

🛍 One percent of Bitcoin could change everything

River calculated how the negative returns on the fiat treasuries of the biggest bigtechs (Microsoft, Google, Apple) would change from 2020 if they allowed a 1% allocation to BTC

Arithmetic that you can't argue against

💸 Crypto exchanges are starting to trade fiat.

Kraken, Bybit and a number of DEX on Solana have added functionality that allows trading tokenized shares of Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, S&P 500 index, etc. around the clock.

The next step is to use such assets in DeFi as collateral or in liquidity pools 🤔

Bitcoin millionaires are becoming more numerous

In the first six months of 2025, there were 26,758 new addresses with bitcoin balances of $1 million or more.

There are 21,589 more addresses with a balance of $1 million or more
There are 5,169 more addresses with a balance of $10 million or more

The total number of “bitcoin millionaires” increased from 155,569 to 182,327.

🎰 Binance founder advises to stay away from crypto for all those who want to get rich quick

Cryptocurrency is not a way to get rich quick and easy, and those who try to do so usually lose money and blame the technology itself, not their greed and naivety.

🔝 Bitcoin's ATN in as little as 3 days?

It has been observed that unless there is a deep correction (a drop of more than 20%) during a bull market, a new all-time high was usually reached within 50 days

It has been 47 days since the last ATH and there has been no major pullback

That leaves us with three days to not break this statistic down

⚡️ Bitcoin-ETF IBIT from BalckRock yesterday officially became the fastest to reach the $80 billion mark in history!

It took only 374 days (5 times faster than the previous record held by VOO - 1814 days)

😐 Cryptan accidentally burned 10 million PUMPs worth $75,000 worth of PUMPs

A guy was found on Solana Floor getting a PUMP drop. He inadvertently drained all the coins by clicking to clear unwanted eirdrops

Moral - always check five times where you are clicking.

🥶 Developers want to freeze BTC on old wallets

Quantum Bitcoin Summit proposed a radical solution: freeze vulnerable BTC, including Satoshi coins, to avert disaster.

25% of all bitcoins (including Satoshi's ~1 million BTC) use outdated cryptography and can be hacked by quantum computers.

If attackers gain access to these coins, a massive sell-off and price crash awaits the market.

The gist of the proposal (BIP by Jameson Lopp, Casa):

⚪️ Ban transfers to old addresses (ECDSA/Schnorr).

⚪️ After 5 years, completely block withdrawals from such addresses.

⚪️ Optionally use mechanism to restore frozen coins through proof of ownership of seed phrase (no inflation risk).