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Bitcoin OG Closes $435M BTC Exit
A Bitcoin OG has sold the final 1,000 $BTC from a wallet that held 5,000 BTC for more than 12 years, per lookonchain.
The last sale, worth about $65.56 million, completed the investor's full exit after sales began in November 2024.
The wallet originally received 5,000 BTC at an estimated cost of $1.66 million when Bitcoin traded near $332.
The entire position was sold for roughly $435.75 million at an average price of about $87,151 per BTC, according to onchain data.
The Turkish Occupation of Cyprus Will End. Ankara Can Still Choose the Manner, Not the Outcome.
On 20 July 1974, Turkey invaded the Republic of Cyprus.
Fifty two years later, it still occupies more than a third of the sovereign territory of a European Union member state.
This date is no longer Nicosia’s and Athens’ alone. It is also Jerusalem’s.
The occupied north is Turkey’s military bridgehead in the Eastern Mediterranean: around 40,000 troops, armour, artillery, rocket forces, air defence, armed drones, ammunition, depots, ports, airfields, command and logistics.
It coerces Cyprus, flanks Greece and threatens Israel’s maritime lifelines, strategic depth and critical infrastructure.
The Turkish occupation is an Israeli security matter.
Poseidon’s Wrath fused Cyprus into Israel’s defence map.
It is the contingency doctrine under which Jerusalem, Athens and Nicosia define the occupied north, Turkish maritime coercion, Ankara’s Hamas infrastructure and threats to their seas, airspace and critical assets as one theatre.
France completes this Eastern Mediterranean centre.
Any Turkish activation of the occupied north against Cyprus, Greece or Israel will confront the power of all four states.
Ankara’s hourglass is running.
Its last controlled exit is negotiated withdrawal.
Turkey withdraws all troops and materiel to Anatolia: every tank, armoured vehicle, artillery piece, rocket system, air defence battery, drone, munition, depot and command installation leaves the island.
Cyprus reunites under the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus, the only state on the island recognised by the United Nations.
The colonisation ends. Those transferred from Anatolia to entrench partition return, subject only to narrowly defined humanitarian exceptions.
Turkish Cypriots remain citizens of the Republic.
Foreign guarantees, occupation forces and unilateral intervention rights terminate.
If Ankara rejects withdrawal by agreement, it chooses removal by force.
The consequences will extend far beyond Cyprus.
Israel will commit the full spectrum of its power. Greece will defend Cyprus and Europe’s southeastern frontier. France will enter as the fourth power of the Eastern Mediterranean centre.
Cyprus will invoke Article 42(7), obliging European Union member states to provide aid and assistance by all means in their power.
NATO cannot invoke Article 5 to defend a war Turkey creates over occupied Cypriot territory.
For fifty two years, Ankara converted delay into permanence. Poseidon’s Wrath has turned that permanence into a countdown.
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🚨 I think most people misunderstand @kris .
Not because they don’t know who he is.
But because they’re judging him by the wrong metrics.
Here’s why I think that. 👇
🏗️ 1. He measures success differently.
Many CEOs are remembered for what they say.
Kris is better judged by what gets built.
Over the years, @cryptocom has continued expanding its products, ecosystem and global presence.
Execution has always spoken louder than words.
🏛️ 2. He made regulation part of the strategy.
While many saw regulation as something to react to…
https://t.co/jd5oLAvcPD invested years into building a compliant business across multiple jurisdictions.
It wasn’t the loudest strategy.
But it may prove to be one of the smartest.
🌍 3. The vision was always bigger than an exchange.
Most people still think of https://t.co/jd5oLAvcPD as just a place to buy and sell crypto.
Today it’s much more than that.
💳 Payments
🏦 Financial services
⛓️ Cronos Blockchain
🎮 Web3 ecosystem
🌍 Global expansion
That doesn’t happen by accident.
📈 4. He kept executing through every market cycle.
Bull market.
Bear market.
Good news.
Bad news.
The roadmap kept moving.
To me, consistency is one of the clearest signs of leadership.
🤝 5. Results matter more than noise.
Products.
Licenses.
Partnerships.
Global expansion.
Those things rarely create the biggest headlines…
But over time, they’re what build lasting companies.
My opinion
No CEO gets every decision right.
And no company is perfect.
But if leadership is measured by consistent execution rather than constant attention…
I think Kris Marszalek deserves far more credit than he usually receives.
The loudest leaders often get the most attention.
The most consistent ones usually build the strongest companies.
What’s your take on Kris Marszalek’s leadership? 👇
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Erdogan has spent nearly $1 billion building a global school network that investigators say is used to export political Islam and target his opponents abroad.
According to a report by the Belgium-based human rights group Solidarity with Others, Turkey's state-funded Maarif Foundation educates around 30,000 students in 34 countries while helping Ankara seize control of schools previously linked to the Gülen movement.
Since 2016, the foundation has reportedly been involved in the closure, confiscation, or forced transfer of 162 schools across 29 countries, taking direct control of 131 institutions and affecting around 7,800 teachers and staff.
The report alleges Turkey used diplomatic pressure, security agreements, raids, deportations, and property seizures to force countries including Afghanistan, Mali, Niger, Sudan, Venezuela, Zambia, and Liberia to hand schools over to Maarif.
State funding for the foundation has exceeded 27.7 billion lira (about $900 million) since its creation. The report concludes there is a reasonable basis to investigate the campaign as persecution amounting to a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute.
Turkey is just one of several state actors that fund Islamists on a global scale.
Iran and Qatar are two other examples, with both heavily focused on spreading Islamism in Europe.
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$CRO just reminded the market that utility and adoption still matter.
Citadel Securities reportedly taking a $400M stake in Crypto. com is the kind of headline that gets institutions paying attention.
If true, it values Crypto. com around $20B and signals growing confidence in regulated crypto infrastructure.
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BIG money is flowing into crypto
Citadel Securities just invested $400M into Crypto. com, valuing the company at $20B
This isn’t just a funding round it’s a bet on the future of:
• Tokenized assets
• Derivatives
• 24/7 capital markets
The market reacted fast: $CRO surged 16% after the news.
Wall Street isn’t watching anymore. It’s joining.
🚨BREAKING🚨
WALL STREET GIANT ENTERS CRYPTO.
Citadel Securities just led a $400 Million investment into the Cryptocom exchange.
• $20 Billion valuation
• First institutional funding round
• Expansion into tokenized securities.
The line between traditional finance and crypto keeps getting thinner.
https://t.co/kFi061w5nm today announced a strategic $400 million investment from Citadel Securities valuing the Company at $20 billion. The milestone marks the first institutional funding round in the Company’s decade-long history
🔹 Funding is expected to accelerate https://t.co/kFi061w5nm’s expansion into all asset classes, including tokenized securities and derivatives
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Citadel Securities agreed to invest $400mn in @cryptocom, its second investment in a crypto exchange in eight months, as financial institutions increasingly use crypto technology not to replace the existing system, but to make it more profitable.
JUST IN: Citadel Securities invests $400 MILLION in Cryptocom at a $20 BILLION valuation
Ken Griffin's market-making giant is taking a strategic stake in the Singapore-based exchange which serves over 140 MILLION users globally.
$CRO surged over 18% on the news, per CoinDesk.