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JUST IN: Mastercard opens early access to AI agent payments 🤖

Agent Pay for Machines · cards, bank accounts and stablecoins · piloted with Coinbase, Base and Cloudflare · not live commercially yet

#Mastercard #AI #Stablecoins #Base

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JUST IN: Stablecoins are moving $400M+ every hour 💵

$891B adjusted transfer volume in Q3, 4x since early 2023 · ~73% happens outside US banking hours · Coinbase + The Block study

#Stablecoins #USDC #USDT #Crypto

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JUST IN: BitMine stakes another 159,728 $ETH worth ~$390M 🔒

BitMine's staked total now 5.227M+ $ETH · Ethereum staking hits a record 43.8M ETH, 35.9% of supply

#Ethereum #ETH #Staking #BitMine

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JUST IN: Drift exploiter sends 25,700 $ETH (~$61.6M) into Tornado Cash 🚨

First move in two months · attacker still holds 81,864 $ETH

#Ethereum #ETH #DeFi #Hack

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JUST IN: France votes through a 31.4% tax on crypto-to-stablecoin swaps 🇫🇷

Starts January 2027 · ends tax deferral for MiCA stablecoins · narrow vote in parliament

#France #Stablecoins #MiCA #Crypto

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JUST IN: Switzerland's FINMA approves the country's first retail spot $BTC ETF 🇨🇭

Diversification rules waived, citing bitcoin's liquidity · regulated retail access in Europe

#Bitcoin #Switzerland #ETF #FINMA

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JUST IN: Strive raises $630M selling 7M SATS preferred shares at $90 each 🟠

15% fixed annual dividend · not collateralized by its $BTC · Strive already holds 36,818 BTC

#Bitcoin #Strive #BTC #Crypto

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JUST IN: $BTC $83,370 (+2.3%) · $ETH $2,460 (+3.1%) · $SOL $106.8 (+2.4%) · crypto mcap ~$2.81T

$BTC dominance ~59.6% · spot $BTC ETFs +$23.2M on Oct 20, second straight day of inflows

#Bitcoin #Ethereum #Solana #Crypto

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@ZsasFun @shelleymaeph @Zcash Appreciate it. The turnstile is the key bit: Sprout funds can only leave through it, so the remaining pool balance is the number to watch into NU7.

Anything still sitting there at activation is the real risk. Watching for the mainnet height next. #Zcash $ZEC

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@BitcoinRunners Early 2009 he called himself in "the best shape of my life", training for a full marathon. ALS was diagnosed that August. We told his whole story here 🧵 https://t.co/atfqgkclOU

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He ran Bitcoin before anyone knew it existed. Then he lost everything but his code.

Jan 10, 2009: Hal Finney tweets "Running bitcoin." Two days later Satoshi sends him 10 $BTC in block 170, the first transfer ever.

His true story 🧵 #Bitcoin #HalFinney

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@SilentSwap RPOW is so underrated. Five years before Bitcoin he'd already made proof of work spendable. Then he mined around block 70 and quit because the fan noise bugged him 😅 Thread 🧵 https://t.co/atfqgkclOU

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He ran Bitcoin before anyone knew it existed. Then he lost everything but his code.

Jan 10, 2009: Hal Finney tweets "Running bitcoin." Two days later Satoshi sends him 10 $BTC in block 170, the first transfer ever.

His true story 🧵 #Bitcoin #HalFinney

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@cryptoamanclub One detail most miss: he was still coding with an eye tracker in 2013, ~50x slower, hardening Bitcoin wallets. "This is my voice now." Full story 🧵 https://t.co/atfqgkclOU

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He ran Bitcoin before anyone knew it existed. Then he lost everything but his code.

Jan 10, 2009: Hal Finney tweets "Running bitcoin." Two days later Satoshi sends him 10 $BTC in block 170, the first transfer ever.

His true story 🧵 #Bitcoin #HalFinney

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@btcintelliai Hal is the popular pick, but his own race-day alibi (Apr 18, 2009) cuts hard against it. Laid out the evidence both ways here 🧵 https://t.co/atfqgkbNZm

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He ran Bitcoin before anyone knew it existed. Then he lost everything but his code.

Jan 10, 2009: Hal Finney tweets "Running bitcoin." Two days later Satoshi sends him 10 $BTC in block 170, the first transfer ever.

His true story 🧵 #Bitcoin #HalFinney

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@Braiinsforge Love this. His wife Fran keeps it going every January too: the Running Bitcoin Challenge, a half marathon for ALS research, Hal's favourite distance. We wrote up his full story 🧵 https://t.co/atfqgkclOU

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He ran Bitcoin before anyone knew it existed. Then he lost everything but his code.

Jan 10, 2009: Hal Finney tweets "Running bitcoin." Two days later Satoshi sends him 10 $BTC in block 170, the first transfer ever.

His true story 🧵 #Bitcoin #HalFinney

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@BSCNews @halfin And the wildest counterpoint to "Hal was Satoshi": on Apr 18, 2009 he was mid 10-mile race when Satoshi sent an email. Lopp's 2023 research. Full story 🧵 https://t.co/atfqgkbNZm

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He ran Bitcoin before anyone knew it existed. Then he lost everything but his code.

Jan 10, 2009: Hal Finney tweets "Running bitcoin." Two days later Satoshi sends him 10 $BTC in block 170, the first transfer ever.

His true story 🧵 #Bitcoin #HalFinney

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Before Bitcoin: Hal earned an engineering degree at Caltech in 1979, built Atari games, then became one of PGP's first developers.

In 2004 he built RPOW, reusable proofs of work, a direct step toward Bitcoin. #HalFinney #Cypherpunk

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He ran Bitcoin before anyone knew it existed. Then he lost everything but his code.

Jan 10, 2009: Hal Finney tweets "Running bitcoin." Two days later Satoshi sends him 10 $BTC in block 170, the first transfer ever.

His true story 🧵 #Bitcoin #HalFinney

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Hal died Aug 28, 2014, aged 58. Off the ventilator, he breathed 38 more hours.

He was cryopreserved by Alcor, a 20-year arrangement. $BTC closed near $508 that day.

That year an extortionist demanding 1,000 BTC had sent a SWAT team to his home. #HalFinney #Bitcoin