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💵 Tether Aims to Raise Up to 20 Billion Tether is reportedly planning a raise of up to 20B dollars valuing the company at around 500B putting it in the same league as the biggest financial giants Not bad for something TradFi once called fake internet money 👅

🎨 Beeple Drops a New Piece About an Endless Bull Run The new artwork by Mike Winkelmann better known as Beeple is dedicated to the idea of a bull market that never ends Hopium but make it art 🎨

✅ Nvidia CEO Calls Bitcoin a Way to Store Energy Jensen Huang says Bitcoin lets excess electricity turn into portable value basically packaging energy into money by mining next to unused power sources For the first time energy isn’t wasted it’s just getting wrapped in BTC ⚡️

💪 Solo Miner Hits the Jackpot Again A solo miner just found Bitcoin block 927474. Reward: 3.133 BTC worth about $284K One rig one block pure luck 😃

🤖 OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.2 as competition with Google heats up. Big gains in logic and agents, 400K context via API, fewer hallucinations. More powerful, more expensive, image gen unchanged AI arms race just leveled up 🏋️‍♂️

🍿 Netflix Drops a Crypto Password Comedy Netflix announced a comedy movie about a lost crypto wallet password worth $35M. One try left to unlock it all Too real for crypto Twitter 👍

🤑 Trader Makes $300K Betting on Elon’s Tweets A Polymarket trader made nearly $300K just predicting Elon Musk’s tweets. He only bet on one thing - whether Elon would post or not Trading the world’s most chaotic signal 🙃

🍻 Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison Terraform Labs cofounder behind TerraUSD and Luna has been sentenced to 15 years in a US prison after the 2022 collapse wiped out roughly 40 billion dollars One of the most expensive lessons in crypto history just got a closing chapter 🍿

🧃 Pakistan’s Crypto Regulator Says Bitcoin Is the Future Rails The head of Pakistan’s Virtual Assets Authority says BTC and blockchain should become the country’s new financial rails When regulators start talking like builders you know the shift is real 😴

🤡 US YouTubers Can Now Get Paid in PayPal Stablecoin American creators will be able to receive YouTube payouts in PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin Welcome to the era where ad revenue goes straight on-chain 😁

💸 Satoshi Nakamoto’s Last Public Message Turns 15 On December 12 2010 Satoshi posted for the last time on BitcoinTalk discussing DoS attacks on the network. After that he quietly continued private emails with developers but never returned to public forums Fifteen years later the silence is still part of the protocol 💪

🗑 $42M Discord Crypto Scam Exposed in the US US authorities say a 26-year-old Canadian ran a fake fund called Gray Digital, raising $42M with fake reports and claims of 4384% returns. Money went to old investors and his own spending - classic Ponzi Discord degen turned full fraud 😇

🎧 Gate dropping updates, be ready to catch: 🔼Talus Network (US) launch - 1.25M US via CandyDrop + trading comp, farmers locked in 🔼Simple Earn Year-End Giveaway - Apple bundles for those who believe in passive income and luck 🔼Soft Staking promos - multi-asset daily earnings, yield chasers rejoice 🔼November Transparency Report - spot market share up, Gate Layer passes 100M wallets (bot? human? who knows) 🔼POWER HODLer airdrop - 105,000 POWER, ironically named and accurately distributed 🔼Research - implied volatility stays spicy as Gate launches options recurring sell 🔼Points Airdrop #124 - claim 80 or 270 BTX, muscle-memory clicking continues 🔼Cysic (CYS) first launch - a new ticker for degens to overtrade 🔼BountyDrop x SpaceAgri - farming… but make it cosmic 🔼ALMANAK + Talus (US) futures - Perps, margin, bots, copy, convert, auto-invest — full arsenal unlocked 🔼Futures Points hits 40 rounds - >$2,000 per user earned, faucet still flowing 🔼Meme Go USDT check-in - daily attendance for a share of 50,000 USDT, school but for degens Gate pushes updates - natural crypto harmony ⌨️

🤵 Trump Launches the Trump Gold Card Donald Trump unveiled the Trump Gold Card - a program he calls a “direct path to citizenship” for qualified and vetted people. He says it will help US companies keep top talent and attract global specialists Immigration meets branding meets politics 🎸