Crypto Headlines 🗞

JUST IN: Michael Saylor hints at buying more Bitcoin. "We're gonna need another color." @headlines

🇷🇺 JUST IN: $500B Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, plans to launch crypto trading infrastructure by December. New regulations taking effect September 1 will only allow public trading of cryptocurrencies with an average market cap above $64 BILLION. @headlines

JUST IN: Binance's internal Red Team runs monthly phishing attacks on its own employees to assess security awareness. It sends fake recruitment outreach, free conference invitations, and attempts to collect personal information. Employees who fail must undergo remedial training. Binance says security hygiene has "improved significantly" since the program launched four years ago. @headlines

Descartes invented the method in 1637. Elon rediscovered it in Silicon Valley. The results are comparable. 1. Most people reason by analogy. They look at what exists, what the consensus says is possible, and iterate from there. The result is usually just a better version of the same thing – 10% ahead of the field, moving in the same direction as everyone else. This is how industries calcify. This is how the car industry looked at the electric vehicle in 2003 and said: not possible. 2. Descartes’ method was different. Strip everything back to what cannot be doubted. Discard inherited assumptions. Rebuild from the foundations. The method requires not genius but a specific intellectual courage: the willingness to look idiotic while the reconstruction is underway. 3. Elon asked a simple question: why does a laptop battery last 10 hours while an electric car barely covers 100 kilometers? Same physical problem. Different chemistry. The entire impossibility of the electric car was a chemistry choice, not a physical law. First principles, not analogy, revealed this in an afternoon. The consensus was wrong because the consensus had never bothered to check. 4. First principles give you the direction, not the solution. Then come the iterations – the prototypes that fail, the cash burned, the problems nobody had solved because nobody had tried. The Cartesian method is not a shortcut. It is a compass. The road is still the road. 5. Most people stop at the first prototype that fails. The ego interprets failure as refutation. First principles reasoning makes failure informational rather than existential. The battery exploded. Interesting. Why? Fix it. Continue. 6. Descartes sat alone in a heated room in Bavaria and doubted everything until he found what he couldn’t doubt. Three hundred and seventy years later, an engineer in California asked why a car battery couldn’t work like a laptop battery. The method is identical. It requires no special intelligence – only the removal of ego, and the willingness to follow the reasoning wherever it leads, including to conclusions that make you look like a fool for the three to five years before they make you look like a genius. The Finance Journal 📈

⚠️ALERT: North Korean hackers are using fake Zoom calls with AI-generated faces to target crypto wallets. The group hijacks Telegram accounts of trusted crypto contacts, sends fake meeting links, then scans victims' browser wallets before delivering malware. Victims see a familiar face on the call, but it's a ChatGPT-generated deepfake superimposed on body movements from previous meetings. @headlines

🇺🇸JUST IN: The US State Department launches the "Freedom Tech Excellence Program" with the Bitcoin Policy Institute, Palantir, and Anduril as founding partners. The program will embed private-sector employees in diplomatic efforts focused on digital freedom and counter-surveillance. @headlines

JUST IN: Clarity Act draft includes rewards for white hat hackers 👀 The proposal had input from J. Christopher Giancarlo, former CFTC Chair. 👏 @headlines

JUST IN: Senator Lummis says the CLARITY Act defines when a digital asset is no longer a security. "By defining 'ancillary assets,' we're giving builders a clear path forward instead of years of regulatory guesswork that's driven innovation offshore," Lummis said. @headlines

JJUST IN: Bitcoin ETFs sold $225 million on Thursday 🟠 Weekly inflows remain positive at $275 million 🟠 Still time to close a 3rd consecutive week of inflows @headlines

JUST IN: India orders to remove Jack Dorsey’s offline Bitcoin messaging app Bitchat. The government gave GitHub three hours to disable access to Bitchat's code. It alleges that the Bluetooth messaging app could be used to bypass internet shutdowns and hinder investigations amid the ongoing CJP protests. "India does not like technologies like Bitchat and wants it taken down," said Dorsey. @headlines

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JUST IN: 🇪🇺 EU approves new sanctions on Russian banks, crypto platforms, and oil firms over its war in Ukraine. The bloc’s 21st sanctions package targets 94 Russian financial institutions, including Moscow’s stock exchange, while banning transactions with more crypto platforms and oil traders. It also keeps the Russian oil price cap at $44.10 per barrel. @headlines

JUST IN: At least 5 countries are mining Bitcoin to build their national crypto reserves. The list includes Bhutan, El Salvador, the UAE, Pakistan and Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is the latest, approving new mining rules to help fund its planned $1 billion reserve. VanEck says up to 13 countries now mine BTC at the government or state-linked level. @headlines

⚖️JUST IN: Coinbase wins its lawsuit against SEC and will receive $150K from the regulator. The two-year case sought internal records from the SEC’s crypto crackdown under former Chair Gary Gensler. Coinbase wanted evidence of the agency’s alleged “regulation by enforcement” strategy. A later review found that nearly a year of Gensler’s text messages had been deleted by mistake. The SEC will cover Coinbase’s legal fees and improve its record-keeping practices. @headlines

🚨ALERT: Ethereum just surged to $1,954, a price level last seen on June 1st this year. @headlines

DATA: Ethereum ETFs recorded net inflows of 19,517 ETH on July 21, bringing seven-day inflows to 81,773 ETH, per Lookonchain. The latest session accounted for nearly 24% of the week’s total inflows, signalling sustained institutional demand for $ETH. @headlines

Bitcoin could hit $92k by Sept 9 📈 100% hit rate the last 6 times this indicator fired % of BTC supply at a loss just dropped below 43% 🔥 @headlines

JUST IN: Bearish bets against US stocks have surged to their HIGHEST levels ever. Short interest has hit 3.79% for the S&P 500 and 6.3% for the Russell 3000, the highest since S3 Partners began tracking in 2010. @headlines

🔥BULLISH: $MSTR reclaims $100 as Strategy raises $263.5 million through equity sales. The capital raise boosts the company’s cash reserves to roughly $3.23 billion, providing enough liquidity to cover preferred-share dividends for the next 22 months. Strategy confirmed that no $BTC was bought or sold as part of the transaction. @headlines

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