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💸 Bitcoin for $7 From a Vending Machine Back in 2012, a vending machine sold Casascius coins for $7 each. No KYC. No charts. Just coins and regret Time travel was cheaper back then 🚶‍♂️

🍷 RedotPay raised $107 million in a Series B round to develop a digital asset payment infrastructure using blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies

💥 Whale Dumps PUMP at a Massive Loss Wallet 3QB9kH accumulated 3.8B PUMP worth 19.5M dollars on Binance between September 12 and November 4 at an average price of 0.00513. He later sent all tokens to FalconX to sell ending up with just 7.3M and locking in a loss of over 12M or minus 62 percent Even whales sometimes learn the hard way 💥

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🥂 Gate ending the year like its the best time to shine: 🔼Kodiak (KDK) Launchpad Phase 5 - $146M subscribed, ~140× oversubscribed. FOMO confirmed 🔼Gate Layer x Stargate - cross-chain bridge live, interoperability enjoyers rejoice 🔼$309M net inflows (30d) - Gate ranks #2 globally, liquidity keeps choosing sides 🔼Gate App redesign - global visual refresh, smoother UX, fewer excuses 🔼Points Airdrop #130 - claim 0.6 or 2 GT, farmers still employed 🔼BountyDrop x Kuant.ai - another airdrop side quest unlocked 🔼KDK distribution complete - spot trading goes live, charts about to suffer 🔼Futures Points Airdrop #47 - >$31 per user, faucet still leaking 🔼Perp DEX Year-End Journey - 20K USDT for the grinders who never logged off 🔼Gate US Gift Cards - crypto finally pretending to be useful IRL 🔼Red Bull Racing stickers - Boxie animated sets, culture marketing engaged Gate ships features. CT ships activity. The loop closes the year 🏃‍♂️

🔮 Galaxy Says Bitcoin’s 2026 Path Is Hard to Read Galaxy Research says macro and market risks make forecasting BTC in 2026 unusually difficult. Still the firm keeps a bullish long term view expecting Bitcoin to reach 250K by the end of 2027 Short term noise long term conviction 🤭

🤑 Man Claims He Found a Flash Drive With 100 BTC A video is going viral of a guy saying he found a USB with 100 BTC from 2009. That’s about $8.95M today Either life-changing luck. Or the best crypto fairytale of the year 👀

💸 Bitcoin Faces Its Strongest Selling Pressure in 3 Years Analysts say Bitcoin is currently under the heaviest selling pressure seen in the past three years The kind of moment that separates weak hands from future screenshots 📉

📉 Weekly Crypto Money Flows Turn Negative Last week digital asset investment products saw 952M dollars in outflows with Bitcoin losing 460M and Ethereum bleeding 555M Looks like conviction took a holiday right before the end of the year 🪨

🐻 Bear Market Alarm Goes Off Again Analysts warn a bear market has started with Bitcoin possibly sliding to the 70K to 56K range in the coming months The same movie the only thing that changes is who panics first 😭

🗽 US Considers Tax Relief for Crypto Users Lawmakers are working on a rule that would exempt stablecoin payments under 200 dollars from taxes treating them like normal purchases. Mining taxes would also apply only when rewards are actually sold or cashed out Crypto taxes slowly learning how money is supposed to work 👦

🪒 Most 2025 Token Launches Failed Out of 118 TGEs this year 100 tokens are trading below their initial levels nearly 85 percent of launches. The main reasons inflated valuations and tokens with no real use Turns out liquidity doesn’t fix a bad idea 👮

👍 Elon Musk’s Net Worth Hits a New Record Musk’s fortune jumped from 600B to 749B dollars after the Delaware Supreme Court reinstated his 2018 compensation package When one court decision adds more zeros than most lifetimes 👍

😈 $50M Lost to Address Poisoning A crypto user lost $50M after copying an address from tx history. He even sent a $50 test tx, but the scammer used a fake wallet with the same first and last 4 chars Clipboard scams still undefeated 🗑