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BTCPay Server has announced a reward for assistance in recovering funds withdrawn from Lightning nodes through a vulnerability. The reward is 10% of the recovered amount, up to 3 BTC (~$190,000) for a full refund, funded by "friends and supporters" of the project. Anyone can apply, including the attacker themselves; if multiple participants participate, the reward will be split by agreement with the victims.
The fund will also award 0.21 BTC to Sparrow Wallet developer Craig Rowe and the Bitcoin Red Team for responsible disclosure.
The scope of the incident has not been disclosed. Only LND con

🧿 Google will give users the option to remove the visible watermark from AI-generated images, videos, and music. The option will be available in Gemini and the Flow video editor, and later in Search.
However, the invisible SynthID label and C2PA metadata will remain. They will still allow users to identify the content as AI-generated.
Google explained the decision as a balance between creative freedom and transparency: a visible label may hinder professional use of the content, but a hidden label will preserve its identification.
The company has also opened the Credentio library for local ver

AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton reported that after beginning to integrate OpenAI's cyber capabilities on August 8, he was restricted the very next morning, despite completing KYC and onboarding. This forced him to revert to Chinese open-source AI models and prevented him from continuing to audit code changes and identify potential vulnerabilities. He argued that the policies of American AI companies "cut off defenders from powerful tools," while attackers are not bound by the rules.
Regarding Anthropic, he noted that there were no issues, but it "will likely be downgraded from Fable to Opus."
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📅 Key macroeconomic events of the week (August 17 - August 23).
🇬🇧 Tuesday (August 18)
09:00 MSK - UK Labor Market Report - Data on employment, unemployment, and wage growth directly impact expectations for the Bank of England's future policy and the pound exchange rate.
🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇸 Wednesday (August 19)
09:00 MSK - UK Consumer Price Index (CPI) - One of the Bank of England's key indicators. High inflation will support expectations for tighter policy and the pound, while weak data will have the opposite effect.
12:00 MSK - Eurozone Final Inflation (CPI) for July - The preliminary estimate

🕯 BTC fell below $63,000 yesterday at the US opening. For three days in a row, we've seen Bitcoin dip at the US opening, followed by a recovery. A mysterious US manipulator has already been declared wanted by X.
💵 The stock market is gaining momentum. Memory manufacturers continued to recover yesterday: Micron +4%, SanDisk +13%, Seagate +5%, and Western Digital +7%. Now, 75% of S&P 500 tech stocks are trading above the 200 DMA; previously, in a similar situation, the tech sector gained 33% over the next 12 months.
⛔️ The US and Iran have adopted a wait-and-see approach. Negotiations are virt

🤑 Spot Bitcoin trading has fallen to its lowest since 2019, which is typical for the final phase of a bear market. But Glassnode analysts are confident that we'll see a price of $58,500 before the crypto market reverses.
🗽 This year, the US will pay a record $1.38 trillion in debt servicing – 4.2% of GDP. America urgently needs low rates, and today at 3:30 PM, producer price inflation (PPI) data will be released – the forecast is for a decline to 4.9%. A hit or below the forecast will be positive for the markets and will bring Kevin Warsh closer to fulfilling Trump's low rate dream.
🔼 Space

🏦 Goldman Sachs acquired NEOS Investments for $2.25 billion. As part of the deal, the bank gained control of a Bitcoin ETF (ticker BTCI) with approximately $1.1 billion in assets under management.
The financial giant will also gain control of an options-based trading platform with $30 billion in turnover.
"Now I understand why Goldman Sachs never launched the covered call option product on Bitcoin they applied for several months ago," noted Bloomberg stock analyst Eric Balchunas.
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💵 BTC is trading around $63,717.93
💵 BTC Dominance - 58.5%
💵 ETH is trading around $1,886.98
⚠️ The Fear and Greed Index is at 37 points, hovering at the "Fear" level.
⚠️ The Alt Season Index is at 42/100
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🚨 MARA is the largest BTC miner in the US.
Why are they selling BTC now and not above $100,000?
My personal guess is that I wouldn't interpret MARA's sale as a signal that "they know Bitcoin will fall."
It's a signal:
- MARA no longer wants to be just a company sitting on a huge pile of BTC and waiting for the price to rise.
- It's trying to turn its BTC assets into capital for building another business.
What's even more interesting is that other large BTC companies have also started selling Bitcoin.
- Strategy has also been selling BTC in recent weeks to finance dividends, share buybacks, an

Whale inflow rate falls to 7-year low
The inflow rate from large investors into Bitcoin has fallen to a seven-year low, indicating that whales have stopped sending potential selling volumes to exchanges.
When this rate reaches critically low levels, it is often interpreted as a reduced likelihood of strong selling pressure on the market.
Under such conditions, one can expect the pressure from large sellers to weaken, which, in turn, could contribute to stabilization or even growth in the price of the leading asset.
Furthermore, a decrease in institutional inflows may indicate greater confidenc

Over the past 30 years, the S&P 500 has continued to rise after reaching its all-time high in 13 of 17 cases – a 6.3% gain over the next six months. That's exactly what Wall Street forecasters are projecting: 7,900 to 8,100 points by the end of the year. 🔼
The AI ​​bubble story doesn't seem relevant as a risk factor, as US corporate pre-tax profits as a percentage of GDP have reached a record 14%. These stock price growth figures look like a bubble, but unlike in 2000, we have a real basis in the form of hundreds of billions in investments and revenue.
But the S&P 500's path to 8,000 isn't ne

💵 BTC is trading around $64,999.28
💵 BTC Dominance - 58.9%
💵 ETH is trading around $1,917.06
⚠️ The Fear and Greed Index is at 38 points, hovering at the "Fear" level.
⚠️ The Alt Season Index is at 36/100
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OpenAI removes restrictions on free chats in ChatGPT — no more message counting.
This week, everyone will be provided with the powerful GPT-5.6 Luna model, and next week, unlimited text and a “Think” button for complex questions will be enabled. Restrictions on photos and files will remain.
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🇺🇸BNY, the world's largest custodian bank with $59 trillion in assets under custody, is adding crypto staking support to its digital asset custody platform.
🚨Important:
- BNY is creating a bridge between TradFi and crypto.
And this, in my opinion, is much more important than the staking news itself.
Look at what BNY has been doing in just the last few months:
- digital asset custody;
- USDC custody + mint/burn via Circle;
- tokenized assets;
- blockchain infrastructure;
- now staking.
🥷 So what does it look like and what does it look like:
- Fund → BNY stores ETH/other PoS assets → the ass

⚙️ Ethereum developers have proposed capping staking profitability. In the EIP-8363 draft, they propose burning a portion of validator consensus rewards: the higher the proportion of ETH staked, the greater the stake. At 60.25 million ETH (approximately 50% of the supply), it would reach 100%.
The authors believe that further growth in staking increases the risks of centralization and erodes ETH's role as a neutral asset. The proposed reward reduction would be implemented gradually over 18 months.
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📎 A year ago, Moonshot AI was known only in narrow circles. Today, the company is valued at $35 billion, and its new Kimi K3 neural network, with 2.8 trillion parameters, is outperforming Western competitors, making Washington nervous.
In a new article, ForkLog explores the phenomenon of the Chinese model and the advantages of open scales. It also examines why the rules of the AI ​​race are changing faster than politicians can respond.
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The number of coins with a market cap over $1 billion continues to decline.
In November 2021, the number of cryptocurrencies with a market cap over $1 billion peaked at 107 assets.
In March 2024, this figure again approached its all-time high, reaching 103 assets.
However, despite the overall growth of the cryptocurrency market, the number of assets maintaining such a market cap has significantly decreased.
Thus, it can be seen that, although the number of coins on the market is increasing, the number of cryptocurrencies with a market cap over $1 billion is declining.
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💵 BTC is trading around $63,458.05
💵 BTC Dominance - 58.5%
💵 ETH is trading around $1,876.29
⚠️ The Fear and Greed Index is at 32 points, hovering at the "Fear" level.
⚠️ The Alt Season Index is at 53/100
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💵 BTC is trading around $63,002.39
💵 BTC Dominance - 58.5%
💵 ETH is trading around $1,868.08
⚠️ The Fear and Greed Index is at 34 points, hovering at the "Fear" level.
⚠️ The Alt Season Index is at 53/100
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🚨 Strategy is no longer the company it once was.
Many still think that Michael Saylor simply buys Bitcoin and never sells it. But in 2026, the company's model changed dramatically.
Strategy is now more of a Bitcoin bank, managing not only BTC but also its own capital.
What's changed?
▪︎ Previously, the logic was simple: raised money → bought Bitcoin → hold forever.
▪︎ Now the company issues preferred shares with a yield of approximately 10-11% per annum and is obligated to pay dividends on them regularly.
This has created a new reality:
⏺The company can sell a portion of its BTC if necessary