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💰 Michael Saylor stated that his company intends to buy as many BTC as possible, effectively removing them from the market — according to him, such a strategy will reduce the available supply and strengthen the network itself. Earlier, Strategy purchased 10,624 BTC at a price of ~$90,615 per coin, now the company's balance is 660,624 BTC (3% of the total issuance).

🇹🇯 In Tajikistan, they have introduced criminal liability for stealing electricity for crypto mining — violators face a fine of up to 75,000 somoni or a real prison term, from two to eight years of imprisonment.

🤖 The Aster team launched a trading tournament among 70 people and 30 AI bots. The developers gave all participants $10,000 each. They take on the losses, and the traders can keep the profits for themselves.

🇺🇸 The head of the SEC Paul Atkins stated that most ICOs are not securities transactions and therefore do not fall under the commission's oversight. According to his classification, only one type of tokens - tokenized securities - are actually regulated by the SEC, while the other categories may fall under the responsibility of other bodies, such as the CFTC. This contrasts sharply with the strict position of the commission during Gensler's time, when many ICOs, including Telegram, were blocked.

📈 After a challenging November, the crypto market "rebooted" — leverage was reduced, speculative interest decreased, and some risky positions were liquidated, analysts from Coinbase Institutional stated. Thanks to this, the market structure has become healthier and is now less vulnerable to sharp drops at the end of the year.

🍿 After a decade of silence, 312 wallets of the darknet marketplace Silk Road suddenly transferred bitcoins to an unknown address for an amount of $3.14 million. According to Arkham, there are still assets worth approximately $38.5 million in these wallets. Earlier, we reported that Ulbricht is again considering opening his own marketplace.

🗽 In the USA, banks for the first time received official permission to conduct cryptocurrency transactions — the OCC regulator allowed them to act as intermediaries without storing assets on their balance sheets. Now, Americans will be able to buy cryptocurrency directly through their banks, and financial institutions are opening up the path to creating their own crypto services.

❌ Tonight, hackers hacked the Binance account on WeChat and organized sales of the scam token MUBARAKAH — they earned $55,000 from this.

😂 Trump launches a mobile game with rewards in the scam $TRUMP token.

💸The market is reviving: Bitcoin has stabilized above $94,000, Ethereum is trading around $3,300, and major altcoins have gained 4–10% over the past 24 hours. The short-sellers are having the worst time right now — short positions worth $240 million have been liquidated in the last four hours. On HTX, a major trader lost $24 million in a single order.

💎 CZ: there might be a supercycle in crypto in 2026. Do we believe it?

🎲 The Polymarket elite is preying on retail investors seeking easy profits — 10x Research Prediction markets are becoming an arena where a small group of professionals are profiting from retail players, chasing easy profits —only 16.7% of users remain in the black, while the elite, armed with better information and discipline, extract profits from novice bets, which is already raising concerns about insider trading. The situation was exacerbated by the discovery of an error in third-party dashboards, due to whichPolymarket's trading volumes turned out to be significantly overstated.

🏴‍☠️ Arkham stated that they are able to deanonymize more than half of the transactions in the Zcash network and attributed about $420 billion in turnover to specific users, including some operations from the shielded pool. This sparked criticism in Zcash: the project's creator, Zooko Wilcox, emphasized that Arkham only takes into account wallets whose owners have themselves given up on privacy, and most of the analysis was done on public data. The debate over the report revealed the main feature of the ecosystem - privacy only works when it is actually used.

🍿How "behind-the-scenes marketing" works in crypto — the story of Botify, reconstructed from a leaked investor file and confirmed by on-chain data. The document shows that the product-less project burned about $1.5 million on listings, metric manipulation, influencer purchases, and even a fake partnership with UEFA — all to pump the token to a $67 million capitalization, after which the project was simply abandoned. 🔴 Listings cost a fortune: Gate — $190,000, MEXC — $90,000. 🔴 Another $233,000 was spent on TikTok and Instagram. 🔴 Influencers were paid in stablecoins and tokens; there was even a line in the allocation for "friends and family". 🔴 90% of the activity was fake: inflated holders, volumes, and even a "Trump Whale" for $20,000 to create the illusion of a major buyer. Essentially, this is a classic scheme: loud marketing, artificial hype, a quick pump — and an empty project that simply disappears.

🇦🇪 Circle, the issuer of USDC, received a financial services provider license in the Abu Dhabi International Financial Center. Earlier, Binance became the first cryptocurrency exchange to receive a full set of licenses from the ADGM (Abu Dhabi Global Market) regulator.

🤖Tether investedin the Italian startup Generative Bionics, which is developing humanoid robots, and became a participant in a round of €70 million. They plan to present the first fully functional humanoid in 2026, and the company calls robotics and Physical AI the next stage of intelligence evolution.

🇺🇸 On December 11, the heads of Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo will speak in the Senate, where they will discuss the CLARITY bill on regulating the crypto market. Bankers are seeking to ban the payment of interest on stablecoins, achieve equal competition conditions with crypto companies and strengthen measures against the illegal use of cryptocurrencies. In parallel, senators continue closed negotiations about who to transfer oversight of crypto assets to — the SEC or the CFTC.

🗽 The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has allowed the use of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC as collateral in derivatives trading, launching a pilot program that departs from the traditional practice of securing transactions only with securities and fiat money. Market participants will be able to store and transfer such collateral directly on the blockchain, and brokers are obliged to keep a separate record of digital assets and report weekly to the regulator.

🇦🇪 The Abu Dhabi regulator approved the stablecoin USDT for use by licensed institutional investors.

💰 BlackRock has filed an application to launch an Ethereum ETF with a staking option.