🇺🇸 Donald Trump on Bitcoin 2024:

1️⃣ Trump believes that Bitcoin will one day surpass the market capitalization of gold.

2️⃣ Trump reaffirmed his previous intentions to make the US a more favorable jurisdiction for crypto business. If we don’t do this (regarding Bitcoin and the US) — China will.

3️⃣ The US will become the cryptocurrency capital of the world and the global Bitcoin superpower.

4️⃣ Trump promised to fire SEC Chairman Gary Gensler.

5️⃣ If Kamala Harris becomes president — she will crush Bitcoin. She doesn’t understand anything about it.

6️⃣ The digital dollar (CBDC) is evil. There will be no CBDC while I am president.

7️⃣ When wars cease, cryptocurrencies will soar to unprecedented heights.

8️⃣ Trump promised not to sell the BTC held on the US balance sheet.

⛔️ 四名火币交易所员工因窃取用户加密货币资金被判入狱

2023 年，中国火币交易所（现称为 HTX）的四名员工利用内部资源将恶意软件上传到火币钱包，获取了大约 40,000 个用户密钥和种子短语。

‼️ 损失的具体数额尚未披露，但已知他们设法访问了至少 19,000 个钱包。

经过警方调查，交易所员工被捕并被判处三年监禁和罚款。

该事件发生在交易所被企业家孙宇晨收购并随后更名为 HTX 之前。

👻 贝莱德在 2024 年比特币会议上的要点：

1️⃣ 贝莱德认为比特币不是简单的“风险”资产，而是一种具有独特基本驱动因素和安全资金存储潜力的资产。

2️⃣ 贝莱德的客户主要对 BTC 感兴趣，对 ETH 的兴趣较小。除了这两种资产之外，几乎没有人感兴趣。

3️⃣ ETF​​ 持有者表现出相当程度的长期持有。

4️⃣ 自 1 月推出以来的 6.5 个月内，贝莱德的 IBIT 只有一天出现负流量。随着时间的推移，可能会有更多出现负流量的日子。

5️⃣ 比特币 ETF 是非常成功的产品，但机构投资者或顾问对它们的需求还不大。这种情况可能会在今年晚些时候发生变化。

6️⃣ 独立顾问通常将 2-3% 的资本分配给比特币。

📉 Mt. Gox 储备下降 66%

CryptoQuant 分析师报告称，作为债权人偿还的一部分，Mt. Gox 储备从 141,686 BTC 减少到 47,228 BTC（-66%）——在同一时期，BTC 价格从 55,000 美元上涨到 67,000 美元。

这表明，FUD 并不总是有效。

📈 The UK Regulator Has Fined Coinbase $4.5 Million

The main reason is that "the exchange attracts high-risk clients".

This involves 13,416 so-called "high-risk clients" who conducted transactions totaling approximately $226 million.

‼️ Another solo miner with a hashrate of 3 TH/s has mined a block and earned $211,972

With such a low hashrate, the probability of mining a block alone is one in 1.2 million.

This can happen once every 3,500 years.

🇪🇺 比特币欧洲公民身份

欧盟正在创建基金，为客户提供机会，通过黄金签证计划投资至少 50 万欧元的比特币，获得葡萄牙公民身份（进而获得欧盟公民身份）。

通常，直接参与该计划需要以法定货币投资 50 万欧元。

👀 The organizer of the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville (USA), David Bailey, announced that he is in talks with Kamala Harris's campaign team about her potential appearance at the event.

A decision is reportedly expected today, as Bitcoin 2024 starts tomorrow. It is known that Donald Trump will be speaking at the conference.

🔼 Meanwhile, the KAMA token has risen another 55% in the past 24 hours, once again reaching a new all-time high.

🔒 Proton 将推出比特币钱包

瑞士公司 Proton 由欧洲核子研究中心的科学家于 2014 年创立，即将推出一款比特币钱包。Proton 的主要产品是加密电子邮件服务 ProtonMail，该服务拥有 1 亿个账户。

💸 该公司还提供 VPN 服务 ProtonVPN，这两项服务都允许使用比特币结算付费订阅。

✉️ Proton 钱包将是开源的，ProtonMail 用户将能够直接从电子邮件界面向对方发送加密货币。

据报道，这将是一个非托管钱包，密钥由用户自己存储。

💵 美国现货以太坊 ETF 交易首日总成交量为 10.8 亿美元。彭博分析师 Eric Balchunas 指出，这相当于 2024 年 1 月 11 日比特币 ETF 首日成交量的 23%。

✔️ 新交易所交易基金中，这一类别的领先者是贝莱德的 ETHA 产品。值得注意的是，Grayscale 的工具此前已经以信托的形式存在。

👀Market recovery — a temporary phenomenon?

According to data from The Block, JPMorgan analysts believe that any market recovery in the near future is unlikely to mark the beginning of a prolonged upward trend.

✔️Analysts noted that a cryptocurrency market recovery is expected starting in August.

They also expressed the opinion that Bitcoin and gold would benefit from a potential second term for Donald Trump.

🪙 The SEC has officially approved the listing of an Ethereum ETF — trading of the new instruments starts today, July 23.

⛔️ Founder of Bitzlato Sentenced

The Brooklyn District Court has sentenced Anatoly Legkodymov, co-founder of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato, to 18 months in prison. He had previously pleaded guilty to money laundering.

☄️ The platform processed more than $700 million in illicit funds and was the largest counterparty of the darknet marketplace Hydra.

❌ According to the court's ruling, Legkodymov has already served 18 months in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. The judge deemed this punishment sufficient for the crimes committed by the man.

🇨🇳 About the Chinese Government's Bitcoins

Journalist Colin Wu reported that in November 2020, the Chinese government confiscated 194,770 bitcoins from PlusToken.

Key Points:

🔵Confiscation: 194,770 BTC, 9.17 million ETH, 51 million EOS.

🔵Sale: part of the assets were sold, and the funds were returned to the treasury.

🔵Remaining: about 15,000 BTC remain unsold.

🤔 The question about the current assets of the Chinese government remains open.

💸 The UK may sell $4 billion worth of Bitcoin

Bloomberg published an article stating that the UK Treasury might sell the previously confiscated 61,000 BTC.

✔️ The publication believes that liquidating the portfolio could provide the new Chancellor with several significant wins.

Previously, the German authorities did the same, which led to a drop in the price.

📊 Crypto Trading Volumes

In June, the total trading volume on centralized exchanges (CEX) fell by 21.8% to $4.2 trillion. This marks the third consecutive month of decline after a peak of $9 trillion in March.

Key Points:

🔵Trading activity on CEX continues to decrease.

🔵Over-the-counter (OTC) trading volume grew by 95% over the same period.

👀 Windows crash has spawned new meme coins

According to CoinDesk, dozens of new meme coins dedicated to the Windows and CrowdStrike crash have already been released.

The market capitalization of these meme coins reaches millions of dollars in just minutes 🔼

For those unaware, millions of Windows users worldwide are facing the "Blue Screen of Death" (BSOD) error, which causes sudden shutdowns or reboots due to a CrowdStrike update.

🌐 A law protecting the rights of crypto users has come into full effect in South Korea:

📌 Local crypto exchanges are now required to store at least 80% of user deposits in cold wallets, separate from their own funds.

📌 The law also mandates exchanges to implement real-time monitoring systems to report suspicious trading activities.

📌 Companies that fail to comply with the new regulations may face fines or suspension of operations by the Financial Services Commission.

⚠️ The Greek government will introduce taxes on cryptocurrencies in 2025, with profits from cryptocurrency trading likely to be taxed at 15%.

Local officials state that the country's budget is losing a lot of money, and crypto investors are "mostly unemployed individuals or taxpayers with no income but significant assets in real estate."

State Street Will Launch Its Own Stablecoin

Financial giant State Street, managing assets worth $3.5 trillion, plans to launch its own stablecoin.

The company is also considering launching a deposit token representing client deposits on the blockchain.

😊 They should handle it quite well given their size.