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Everyone is currently waiting for Mike Tyson to fight blogger Jake Paul. But few people remember that 9 years ago, the world boxing champion launched his own brand of bitcoin ATMs.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with a net inflow of $1.86 billion, marking the third consecutive week of growth.
🤑 Thus, the total net inflow of Bitcoin funds since the beginning of the year amounted to $2.42 billion.
The largest inflow was recorded for IBIT from BlackRock ($745 million), followed by FBTC from Fidelity ($680 million) and BITB from Bitwise ($216 million).
Rapper Snoop Dogg faced a wave of criticism after becoming the headliner for Donald Trump's cryptocurrency party called Crypto Ball.
🪩 The event took place in Washington, ahead of the inauguration of the new president, and gathered many celebrities and politicians.
However, Snoop Dogg's participation drew sharp criticism from his fans, who accused the artist of hypocrisy, as he had criticized the politician for many years.
DOGS has presented a roadmap for the first half of 2025:
⏺ DOGS games and events featuring the mascot ⏺ Purchases using DOGS tokens — from gift cards to travel ⏺ Charity with $4.5 million in the DOGS pool
🤝 Partnerships have already been established, including with Best Friends Animal Society to help homeless animals
✅ DOGS has also set a record with 4.5 million unique holders, and the mass airdrop in August 2024 became the largest in history, despite the TON blockchain being halted due to overload.
📌 The US government has authorized the sale of 69,370 BTC worth $6.5 billion, confiscated from Silk Road
📌 The bailiffs have begun to seize more than 1 billion rubles in BTC from former investigator of the Investigative Committee of Russia Marat Tambiev, convicted in a case of a record bribe in BTC.
📌 A bill, the Bitcoin Freedom Act (SB325), has been introduced in Oklahoma
📌 Microsoft plans to spend $3 billion to expand its AI capabilities in India
📌 The trial of Do Kwon is scheduled for January 26, 2026
📌 US authorities stated that AI solutions - ChatGPT and Meta smart glasses - were used during the terrorist attacks in Las Vegas and New Orleans
📌 Law enforcement agencies in Thailand seized about 1,000 BTC mining machines from the company
🚀 Notcoin, Hyperliquid, Starknet among the best airdrops of 2024
📣 According to BeInCrypto, in 2024, cryptocurrency projects distributed more than $19 billion to the community.
✅ Such an estimate is likely overstated. Nevertheless, even after the drop in the received tokens and their price decline, the total value of NOT distributed by Notcoin amounts to $545 million.
✅ The price of 31 million HYPE tokens distributed in November by Hyperliquid was about $1.1 billion, and now it stands at $750 million.
✅ Starknet with an airdrop of 700 million STRK can currently be valued at $370 million.
📣 Although the crypto exchange's reorganization plan provides for compensation of between $14.7 billion and $16.5 billion for customers, this will have a limited impact on the market.
✅ According to K33 Research, after creditors receive payments, approximately $2.4 billion could return to the market.
✅ The first to receive payments will be account holders with claims of $50,000 or less. This group will receive a total of approximately $1.2 billion. Larger customers will receive their money later.
All creditors are required to undergo KYC and provide tax documents through the FTX client portal. Debtors.