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Hello, crypto friends! 👋 Have you ever wondered why some tokens soar on 'x's even before all the media writes about them? The answer is simple: Smart Money is already there.
Today we will figure out how 'smart money' moves the market and how we, ordinary mortals, can avoid missing their trail. 👇

Most people think venture capital happens in fancy boardrooms with PowerPoint decks and term sheets.

Sometimes it happens at a Bitcoin meetup out west.

That's where I met @MiguelMorel, the founder of Arkham Intelligence ( @Arkham ) .

Immediately, Miguel's extraordinary intelligence and energy caught my attention.

He had an incredible vision for @Bitcoin
becoming the center of banking and commerce.

But here's the thing about crypto...

The anonymity that everyone thinks is a feature is actually the biggest problem.

Yik Yak got shut down because anonymous people behaved terribly.

Crypto had the same issue until people realized the blockchain keeps perfect records.

Miguel saw this and built Arkham to identify crypto wallet holders, not to invade privacy, but to encourage good behavior.

The results speak for themselves: → Tracked a $1.4 billion hack back to North Korea → Solved the Microsoft Exchange hack affecting 250,000 servers

The logical takeaway here?

Eat more ribs. — More stories from "Draper's Top 40 Hits" coming soon. Which founder story should I share next?

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On Tuesday, blockchain analytics entity Arkham Intelligence unveiled its discovery of $108 billion in BTC held within the recognized bitcoin wallets linked to Satoshi Nakamoto. By leveraging advanced forensic tools and the renowned Patoshi Pattern, the platform traced these holdings to the pseudonymous creator’s earliest digital vaults, casting fresh light on the dormant fortune’s staggering scale.

Satoshi’s Unmoved BTC Vault Exposed by Blockchain Intelligence Data
This revelation—arriving 16 years after Bitcoin’s cryptic inception—offers unprecedented insight into the cryptographic pioneer’s financial footprint, yet preserves the enduring mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity. The data reaffirms Nakamoto’s status as the ecosystem’s most elusive architect, their digital trove untouched since its genesis in January 2009.
“Update: $100 billion in Satoshi Nakamoto’s holdings now on Arkham,” the company posted to X. “We’ve added an additional 22,000 Satoshi addresses with a total BTC balance of 1,096,354 to the Satoshi Nakamoto entity on Arkham. These are derived from a known mining pattern referred to as the Patoshi Pattern, and include the only (known) addresses from which Satoshi spent BTC from.”

The Patoshi Pattern manifests as a methodical progression within the ExtraNonce field—a cryptographic variable advanced incrementally when miners deplete available nonces for a specific block. This rhythmic, almost algorithmic cadence diverges conspicuously from Bitcoin’s conventional mining protocols, intimating that Satoshi employed either a singularly tailored infrastructure or purpose-built code to orchestrate their digital excavations.
The cryptographic enigma known as the “Patoshi Pattern” was first unraveled by Rootstock (RSK) developer Sergio Demian Lerner, an esteemed researcher and code-breaking savant. In 2013, Lerner posited this groundbreaking theory, delineating a singular mining signature within Bitcoin’s primordial blockchain that implied a lone entity—christened “Patoshi”—extracted just over 1 million BTC during the network’s first 12 months.
Prevailing conjecture attributes this activity to Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s veiled architect, owing to the mining behavior’s chronological symmetry with the protocol’s nascent evolution. Not a single satoshi (excluding one specific transaction) from Nakamoto’s purported trove has ever been transacted or displaced. Yet with striking regularity, microscopic BTC dust particles, ephemeral messages, and both fungible Bitcoin-tokenized assets and digital collectibles like Ordinals stream into the presumed digital vaults tied to Nakamoto.
Flagging Satoshi’s wallets enhances transparency and security within Bitcoin’s ecosystem, deterring fraudulent claims or unauthorized transfers. By monitoring these addresses, stakeholders gain critical insight into potential market risks—should dormant coins ever move. This visibility also preserves Bitcoin’s historical integrity, anchoring its decentralized ethos to verifiable data. Such safeguards reinforce trust in blockchain analytics, ensuring Satoshi’s legacy remains a stable, unmoved pillar of cryptographic history.

#binance #wendy #arkham $ARKM

El Salvador's President Naib Bukele. Credit: Presidencia de la República de El Salvador.

El Salvador's President Naib Bukele officially rejected the terms of a $1.4 billion loan put forward by the IMF in December.
In April it will stop, in June it will stop, in December it will stop. it will stop; in December it will stop. No, it's not going to stop, Bouchere wrote on the X website on Tuesday.
The new rules in the IMF's March 2025 Country Report, released this week by the IMF, aim to establish a permanent quantitative performance standard with a zero ceiling for government #bitcoin purchases. The IMF agreement requires the abolition of the Fidebitcoin Trust Fund by July 2025, the end of government participation in the Chivo wallet system and the publication of all government bitcoin wallet addresses.
the International Monetary Fund (IMF added new conditions to El Salvador's 40-month, US$1.4 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program. When the program was first approved in December, it already included strict restrictions on the government's bitcoin activities, but allowed it to maintain existing holdings. Going forward, commitments under the program will limit government participation in bitcoin-related economic activities, as well as government transactions and purchases of bitcoins, said Deputy Managing Director Nigel Clarke,
other words, the region's smallest country will
other words, Mr. Bouquere's challenge came after the country's Bitcoin Secretariat added 1 #BTC to national reserves on Tuesday, bringing El Salvador's total to 6,101 BTC. A total of 6,101 BTC ($510 million), #Arkham Intelligence data showed.
Despite criticism of the way El Salvador is being governed, Bucherer's president, Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor, has received support among bitcoin stakeholders, including
Bitcoin adoption cannot be stopped,
Saylor wrote on X in response to Bucherer's tweets.
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Arkham is an advanced on-chain explorer originally conceived as a data trading exchange. However, the project has transformed over time into an application that is rarely used for its intended purpose.
The team, realizing the difficulties of development in this direction, decided to switch to more trending topics. After the hype around AI, they launched their chatbot, which, to put it mildly, did not meet expectations. As an Arkham user, I can say that this bot only complicated the search for information instead of simplifying it.