In a speech that Bernstein’s analysts hailed as “bolder than a Bolshevik manifesto”, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins unveiled ‘Project Crypto’—a sweeping initiative to modernize the nation’s archaic securities laws for the digital age. 📜🚀
He took to Twitter recently, a brave man in these volatile days, and suggested that if you’re dithering about buying Bitcoin, you might find its value has shot off to “zero…point five million.” Quite the dramatic flair, isn’t it? Not to worry, he assured us that this “zero” isn’t exactly the kind that causes a gentleman to faint into his whisky, but more like a new, avant-garde Zero—perhaps the kind you haven’t seen before, with a dash of piquant peculiarity. Or at least, that’s the way I see it.
Titled ‘Banking on Digital Assets: How Traditional Finance is Investing in Blockchain,’ this report spills the beans on a staggering $100B invested in blockchain firms between 2020 and 2024. Over 10,000 deals, mind you. And who’s leading the charge? The usual suspects: Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Japan’s SBI Group. These titans aren’t just dipping their toes—they’re diving headfirst, with 33 investments topping $100M each. 🏦💸
According to the folks at Arkham Intelligence (who sound like they should be solving Batman-level crimes), the target was LuBian, a Chinese mining pool that was once a big fish in the Bitcoin pond. Back in 2020, they controlled 6% of the Bitcoin network’s hash rate, with operations stretching from China to Iran. Fancy, right? 🌏
So, Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder of Solana [SOL], has found himself in a bit of a pickle—like a cucumber in a jar of brine—over the past week. In a recent post, he decided to drop a truth bomb, saying, “Communities are useless.” Wow, thanks for the pep talk, Anatoly! 🙄
On August 4, Brian Armstrong fired off an X post, full-on indignation mode: UK banned his precious ad, and, surprise surprise, he thinks it’s because the message landed a little too close to home. Honestly, if this were Curb Your Enthusiasm, there’d be a very long stare into the camera here.
On Monday, ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone took to the blogosphere to reassure the masses that, despite the allure of a shiny new digital euro, the trusty old banknotes and coins aren’t about to be pensioned off just yet.
Это не конечная точка — о нет! Итоговая сумма их биткоинов составляет 17,595 штук — не малая армия электронных монет, которая по среднему приобретению стоит чуть менее 14,85 миллиона йен за каждую — что есть, к слову, отдельная философия. Общая стоимость — более 261 миллиарда иен, или, на всякий случай, полтора миллиарда долларов, что, безусловно, заставит любой инвестор с умыслом подумать о своих инвестициях на диване и кофейной гуще одновременно.
On August 3, 2025, the creators of the Satoshi Nakamoto statue, Satoshigallery, unveiled a tragedy: the figure, a spectral silhouette of black steel and hoodie, had vanished. Unveiled last year, it was a phantom of anonymity, its fragmented form a metaphor for the man behind the myth. 🧟♂️
