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BITFINEX HACKER RELEASED EARLY Ilya Lichtenstein, the guy behind the 2016 Bitfinex hack, says he’s out early from a US prison. he thanked Trump for his criminal justice reform and now claims he wants to help cybersecurity. he admitted he personally pulled off the hack by exploiting a flaw in the @Bitfinex and BitGo multisig setup. back then, 200,000 BTC vanished, worth $71m at the time, roughly $11B today. with his wife, Heather Morgan, he spent years shuffling the coins through wallets, mixers, privacy coins, NFTs, gift cards. in 2022, investigators traced the trail down to Walmart gift cards bought under Morgan’s real name. that’s how the dominoes started falling. the FBI later got a warrant for Lichtenstein’s cloud accounts and found a file with private keys to wallets holding most of the loot. 94,000 BTC were seized soon after. by August 2023, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money. Lichtenstein got 5 years, Morgan 18 months. he’s now on home confinement, full release expected in February. she walked free last October. the couple’s back together. somehow.

@sssionggg if the tokenomics are shaky and insider pressure isn’t really limited, buybacks alone won’t hold the price. maybe before making loud conclusions, it’s worth starting not with buybacks, but with fixing the team and incentives from the inside?

what do you all think if we stop the JUP buyback? we spent more than 70m on buyback last year and the price obviously didn’t move much. we can use the 70m to give out for growth incentives for existing and new users. should we do it?

@CryptoRank_io where is @arbitrum in this list?

Top 10 Chains By Revenue in 2025 🥇 @solana - $1.3B 🥈 @HyperliquidX - $816M 🥉 @trondao - $608M 4. #Ethereum - $524M 5. @BNBCHAIN - $257M 6. @edgeX_exchange - $169M 7. @base - $76.4M 8. @axelar - $56.9M 9. @bittensor - $33.4M 10. @Optimism - $21.6M

@cz_binance @PeterSchiff hodl

@PeterSchiff Warm up debate: 🤣 according to ChatGPT, silver "started" at least 2600 years ago, around 600 BC, if not 1000 years earlier.

Silver is now above $58. This is an incredible run, but it's just getting started.

@TedPillows tod.. damn bro 🥴

If you are scammer. At least write my name correctly. 😅 By the way I don't have Instagram. That 100k account is also a scam.

@future_funs @MarcShawnBrown @Kylechasse spent ≠ dump. spent = moved coins, not sold coins. dump = actual selling into the market

@MarcShawnBrown @Kylechasse What about the chart tho

Bitcoin "OGs" are dumping is a load of bullsh*t. This chart proves that is a LIE. We are down ~27% from the highs and fear is peaking, but look at the on-chain reality: See that purple line? That’s the 7+ year supply. It hasn't flinched. They didn't sell the $124k top, and they aren't selling this $91k floor. The bedrock of the network is UNMOVED. The selling right now is almost entirely mid-term tourists panic-selling into weakness. This isn't an exit by the smart money. It’s a shakeout of the weak hands. Conviction hasn't broken. The supply squeeze is just getting tighter.

i got this mindset in the gym. i started benching 50 kg and added 5 kg almost every session. i didn’t always hit the reps i wnted (sometimes 8, sometimes 10), but i kept going. some days i felt sick or unfocused, but i still showed up. it was hard and it’s still hard, but now i bench 80 kg and i’m not stopping. small steps add up.

Thoughts on why it’s important to become at least 5% better than others or how i made $10K+ while most people in my niche were stuck at $2K funny enough, i never tried to work more than everyone else, i tried to work better. it sounds like a small difference, but in reality it creates two completely different lifestyles 1: you just do your tasks, finish what you need to do, and go relax 2: you ask yourself every single day: "what did i do today that makes me at least 5% stronger than yesterday, and than everyone else?" this was supposed to be a tweet about a web3 job, but i realized the real value is something else when i started my path, the most important thing i understood was this: "competition is always driven by the quality of your thinking" definitely not by the number of hours time is limited, the ability to grow isn’t My 5% principle: i kept telling myself: “i only need to be 5% better than everyone else” sure, it sounds like almost nothing on a daily scale but over a year, it becomes catastrophically big 5% is: - reading not one article, but two or three - understanding not just the strategy, but the principles behind it - trying not one approach, but several - not just completing a task, but slightly improving the process What made me different from others? 1. I was obsessed with understanding the “WHY?”, not just the “HOW?” most people just do what they’re told only a few actually understand why if you understand the “why,” you eventually create the “how” 2. I always thought like a builder, not a worker i didn’t do tasks for the sake of tasks, or for money i tried to see the whole system: how it works, where it breaks, where it can be improved, how to expand it that mindset makes you valuable in any team and in any niche 3. I constantly learned from people who were already better than me the biggest growth hack is to absorb someone else’s experience building everything from scratch takes too long and drains you mentally i had the drive to learn from people who were already doing things at a higher level 4. I developed rare skills before the market even cared about them when i entered the NFT space, i immediately realized how much influence communities had and that influence was the most valuable thing in the entire ecosystem so i started building my personal brand & working as a Collab Manager the goal wasn’t to farm WLs, it was to understand the inner kitchen of the space 5. The goal to become irreplaceable, which eventually became reality when you consistently do work that’s a bit better, deeper, and faster than others you naturally become someone who’s hard to replace, not instantly, but over time after six months, the gap becomes obvious after a year, you’re a different person and all of this happened while the war started, i was sleeping on a mattress, and thinking just "how to become better... Why did I grow so fast? being obsessed with the process made the results impossible not to notice i chose the path of conscious work, moving toward the person i wanted to become, not just chasing money the real secret is the discipline of small actions, every day it became more noticeable over time, it literally became life-changing i don’t want to brag or boost my ego, but… more and more people are chasing nothing but the number of zeros on their screen i think that’s a losing path, you have to enjoy the process, btw stay focused.

@QuintenFrancois i understand your point, but these companies have real products with real customers, right?

I would start being very cautious here. With the current economic environment and shaky economy, still AI companies are going parabolic mainly based on 3 companies inflating each others' valuations. All the rest feels shaky and dependent on money printing. Feels bubbly.

build your own product. it gives u market intuition, networking, a sense of control over your life, crazy upside to growing

How to survive a bear market: - dont dead - do your taxes - prepare stablecoin usdc/usdt - still learning - farming WL nft/airdrop - Document your journey - don't trade much - Build a personal brand -get yourself healthy/in shape - focus on web2/web3 jobs to get more capital -sleep enough that you can keep your edge What else would you add?

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THE INTERNET WENT DOWN AGAIN, BITCOIN DIDN’T 2025 had some pretty big outages cloudflare went down three times this year, aws went down twice, and google cloud went down twice as well nothing loaded, everything felt offline and bitcoin just kept running. no downtime, no pause

THEY FINALLY GOT IT just saw the sec's 2026 examination priorities letter for the first time since 2018 there is no standalone crypto section. the spotlight shifts to ai-driven investment tools, robo-advisors, cybersecurity and how brokers actually treat retail clients crypto is still under supervision it’s just not being treated as something exotic anymore. it’s getting folded into the same rulebook as stocks, bonds and everything else to me, this feels like one of the quietest but most meaningful signs of maturity we’ve seen from regulators in years

bitcoin dropped to $92,500 in the same period, 134,000 traders were liquidated, with total liquidations reaching $686,000,000

BTC stopped correlating with M2 because printed money exists but isn't circulating into markets: it's trapped in gov't and banks by central banks & US Treasury BTC reacts to active investor liquidity, not just printing. alts need accelerating flows for altseasons right now: liquidity slowed, BTC holds via ETFs/narratives correlation returns when real liquidity rises, completing crypto's 5-year cycle.

WHAT HAPPENED HERE? WHY IS BTC NOT FOLLOWING M2? CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS???