❤️ Donald Trump signed (https://t.co/dOAKci2QRG) an executive order pardoning Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to two life sentences and 40 years in prison for using his platform to buy drugs and other illegal services with BTC.
🪙 Mining company Marathon has embedded a portrait of Donald Trump into a block of the first cryptocurrency in honor of his upcoming inauguration.
Marathon currently holds over 56,000 BTC.
🇮🇹 Italy's largest bank Intesa Sanpaolo has started (https://t.co/ixSwr3AQUV) investing in Bitcoin — the first transaction of 11 BTC (€1 million) has been completed.
⛪️ A Washington pastor has been charged (https://t.co/Qt4ZQnSWNx) with 26 counts of fraud — the “minister of God” created the Solona Fi scam project, with the help of which he defrauded about 1,500 investors of $6,000,000. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
🇺🇸 Previously: US SEC accuses Ripple, calling XRP a security and the company a lawbreaker. Courts, scandals, nerves.
Now: Ripple CEO and his lawyer at dinner with the US President. Smiles, warm words, discussion of the future.
🤖 Artificial intelligence pioneer and 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton said (https://t.co/TMmUV64jso) that the probability of humanity becoming extinct due to AI within the next three decades is 10-20%.
🤖 OpenAI plans to create (https://t.co/4dGsdy3dMP) a humanoid robot - in 2021, the company closed its robotics division, but since then a lot has changed: there has been a breakthrough in the field of AI, and new equipment has appeared.
❓ MicroStrategy currently holds 439,000 BTC worth $42 billion, with the average purchase price of each coin being $61,725. At the same time, MicroStrategy continues to actively replenish its reserves.
The Trust Wallet crypto wallet team fixed a bug that caused token balances to temporarily disappear and reappear, causing inconvenience and frustration for many community members.
On December 21, some users wrote on the X social network about periodic “disappearance of money”
🔮 Cathie Wood suggests (https://t.co/wWSgTMFj7J) that Donald Trump's election could trigger a surge in private company purchases previously held back by bureaucratic restrictions - she reiterated her BTC price forecast, expecting it to rise to $1,500,000.
💸 Coinbase has removed (https://t.co/gkXWNexcq7) the wBTC token (wrapped Bitcoin) from the platform due to Justin Sun - the exchange stated that there is a high risk that control of wBTC will fall into the hands of Justin, who may commit financial fraud.
⚒️ The cost of mining 1 BTC for public mining companies in the third quarter was $55,950.
The most efficient company was Marathon, whose costs for mining 1 BTC were about $42,864.
⚡️ MicroStrategy has been officially added (https://t.co/RgMmn1lFhW) to the Nasdaq
100 index.
The index consists of the 100 largest non-financial companies by market capitalization whose securities are traded on the Nasdaq exchange.