16th anniversary of Bitcoin's debut
As of January 3, 2025, Bitcoin has been around for 16 years. The Bitcoin genesis block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on January 3, 2009, at 2:15:05 AM Beijing time, on a small server in Helsinki, Finland, with a block reward of 50 BTC.
Satoshi Nakamoto recorded the front-page headline of The Times in the CoinBase data of the genesis block: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." There was only one transaction in the block, with a block reward of 50 bitcoins.
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A man in Xiamen stole virtual currency from others and has been reviewed and prosecuted for theft.
On January 3, according to Xiamen Evening News, a man stole virtual currency from others and cashed out more than 1.6 million yuan due to losses incurred while helping a friend invest in futures. Recently, the Xiamen Huli District Procuratorate reviewed and prosecuted this theft case.
The Huli District Procuratorate has filed a public prosecution against Chen for theft. According to Article 264 of the criminal law, theft of public and private property, with particularly large amounts or with other particularly serious circumstances, is punishable by more than ten years of fixed-term imprisonment or life imprisonment, and fines or confiscation of property.
Hong Kong Legislative Council member Wu Jizhuang: We can take the lead to include Bitcoin in Hong Kong’s foreign exchange fund assets.
According to Hong Kong Wen Wei Po's report on December 30, Hong Kong Legislative Council member and chairman of the Web3 Virtual Asset Development Subcommittee Wu Jizhuang stated in an interview that Hong Kong needs to study how to maintain national financial security in an environment where the U.S. disrupts Bitcoin and affects traditional asset markets. He suggested that Hong Kong leverage the advantages of 'one country, two systems' to take the lead in including Bitcoin in foreign exchange fund assets, and explore ways to activate the Bitcoin in hand for the country.
The total market value of AI sector tokens has exceeded $48.7 billion; the total market value of AI Agent has exceeded $16.9 billion.
On January 2, according to CoinGecko data, the total market value of AI sector tokens exceeded $48.7 billion, with a 24-hour increase of 13.3%, and a 24-hour trading volume reaching $3.93 billion. The total market value of AI Agent sector tokens exceeded $16.9 billion, with a 24-hour increase of 22.7%. Currently, there are 21 types of AI Agent tokens with a market value exceeding $100 million, with the top tokens being: VIRTUAL with a current market value of $4.99 billion, a 24-hour increase of 22.4%, and a 7-day increase of 60.4%; ai16Z with a current market value of $2.58 billion, a 24-hour increase of 22.5%, and a 7-day increase of 179.1%; AIXBT with a current market value of $636 million, a 24-hour increase of 1.3%, and a 7-day increase of 78.1%; FAI with a current market value of $37 million, a 24-hour increase of 22.9%, and a 7-day increase of 107.5%.
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Security company: Beware of a new type of scam where scammers pretend to be beginners sharing seed phrases and use multi-signature wallets to steal gas fees.
On December 30, according to CoinDesk, a new type of scam targeting cryptocurrency thieves has become popular on YouTube, according to a recent report from security company Kaspersky. Scammers disguise themselves as beginners and deliberately “accidentally” share wallet seed phrases in the comments section, luring others to attempt to steal USDT worth $8,000 from the wallet.
However, these wallets are actually multi-signature wallets. When the thief pays TRX as gas fees to attempt a transfer, these TRX will be automatically transferred to another wallet controlled by the scammer. Since most blockchain gas fees are less than $10, this scam mainly targets small-scale thieves rather than large-scale operations.
