"Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, attracted more than 1,000 people to the EthCC conference in Brussels. However, the big news was a former employee of the cryptocurrency venture capital firm Polychain being accused of ethical violations. According to CoinDesk, he received an undisclosed personal share of tokens from the project, which raised funds from firms. More than $20 million were raised within the framework of blockchain projects Rome, Dora, BOB, Term Labs. Private investment funds are showing interest in bitcoin miner data centers thanks to AI. The German state of Saxony is influencing the global bitcoin market with its liquidation of BTC."