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🪙 6 BTC sont actuellement enfermés dans un portefeuille Bitcoin… et ils appartiendront à celui qui réussira à le « cracker ».

Il s’agit du Bitcoin Puzzle #71, un défi créé en 2015 dans lequel la clé privée se trouve volontairement dans un espace de recherche réduit.

Le développeur Simon Males vient de créer Krackpot, un outil qui permet à n’importe qui d’utiliser la puissance de son GPU directement depuis son navigateur pour tenter de retrouver cette clé. Aucun compte ni dépôt : si votre machine trouve la bonne combinaison, 6 BTC sont envoyés à votre adresse, le reste du portefeuille revenant au développeur.

Mais autant jouer au loto, il reste environ 2⁷⁰ possibilités, soit 1,18 sextillion de clés. D'après les estimations affichées par le projet, même un puissant GPU pourrait mettre près d’un million d’années à trouver la clé.
Avec un million de GPU travaillant simultanément, l'ordre de grandeur tomberait autour d'un an. x.com/simonmales/sta…

🚨 An open letter published today from BitMart’s Chinese account claims that users are still unable to recover their funds, and that many employees may not have received their latest salary or severance payments.

The authors specifically demand verifiable proof of reserves, a statement of assets and liabilities, and a precise repayment schedule before August 19.

But founder Sheldon Xia has since entirely disputed the authenticity of this letter. He claims that BitMart’s Chinese account was compromised and that the message does not come from current employees, saying he intends to file a complaint with law enforcement and request a technical expert review from X.

🇪🇺 Bitpanda is hit with a €70,000 fine for breaching the MiCA rules.

The Austrian financial regulator (FMA) reproaches the crypto platform for not having submitted a document within the deadline set by MiCA and for having published marketing communications too early or without certain mandatory mentions.
The decision is now final and, according to the FMA, is its first MiCA sanction that has been published and has become final.

Bitpanda states that this involves only failings related to the timing and publication formalities: no client funds would have been affected, no security flaw is involved, and no financial harm would have been suffered by users. The company says it corrected the issues after being contacted by the regulator.

BITCOIN JUST DROPPED BELOW $63,000 WHILE THE STOCK MARKET IS HITTING ALL-TIME HIGHS. 📉

THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE WORST BEAR MARKETS EVER. 💀

Why is Bitcoin struggling to break out of its range?

U.S. employment figures point toward a more accommodative Fed, which is generally positive for markets.

On the other hand, rising oil prices reignite inflation worries and could keep rates elevated for longer.

Two opposing signals. As long as this macro standoff continues, it’s hard for Bitcoin to find a real catalyst.

💬 « Bitcoin is the anti-gold. The higher gold goes, the more Bitcoin will fall. »

Peter Schiff remains faithful to his anti-Bitcoin stance and believes that the drop in $BTC should continue, while gold and silver could rise.

According to him, the recent market dynamics confirm his theory: «when gold started its rally, Bitcoin fell. When gold corrected, Bitcoin bounced back. Now that gold is starting to rise again, the BTC is beginning to fall again.»

💳 Crypto cards are exploding: $759 million was spent in a single month, a new all-time record.

According to PaymentScan data published by a16z crypto, spending through the main crypto card programs reached $759 million in July 2026.

By way of comparison, it was around $300 million per month a year earlier: the volume has therefore more than doubled in just 12 months.

Sending your BTC to an exchange is generally the first step before a sale.

However, over the past few weeks, deposits have remained relatively contained despite Bitcoin trading around $64,000.

This doesn’t mean that a rally is imminent.

But it does indicate that, for now, there isn’t any wave of sales being prepared.

Watch the last 7 days.

Every market impulse has been accompanied by a wave of liquidations, on both sides.

This reveals a fragile market structure:

- heavily leveraged positions;
- relatively low liquidity;
- many stops concentrated at the same levels.

As long as this setup remains in place, a simple technical break can quickly turn into a violent move.

🚨 Bitmine bought 10,399 $ETH last week.

The company now holds 5.8 million ETH, or about 4.8% of Ethereum’s circulating supply.

Bitmine also repurchased 4.5 million shares last week as part of its previously announced buyback program.

🚨 Strategy continues selling part of its Bitcoin.

Between July 27 and August 2, Michael Saylor’s company sold 1,638 BTC for a total of $104.7 million, at an average price of 63 957 $ per BTC.

The funds were used to:
- pay $52.4 million in dividends on its preferred shares
- finance $52.3 million in STRC share buybacks.

At the same time, the company raised $290.6 million through MSTR share sales, repurchased $81.2 million worth of STRC shares, and increased its dollar cash reserve to $4 billion.

Despite this sale, Strategy remains by far the largest institutional holder of Bitcoin with 842,138 BTC, acquired for a total cost of $63.51 billion, representing an average purchase price of 75 419 $ per BTC.

🚨 The crypto market has already wiped out more than $1,700 billion in market capitalization, a drop of over 40% in a year.

One of the most violent corrections in its history...

And the most interesting part is that it might not be over yet. 👀📉

Robinhood Chain records a strong acceleration in real-world asset (RWA) holdings: x5 in two weeks, rising from 50 M$ to 250 M$.

The AAPL token now reaches 850 K$ in daily volume (+340%).

Memecoins and stablecoins still dominate on-chain activity, but this is probably the strongest retail signal for RWAs since the launch of Bitcoin ETFs.

Tokenized stock trading, available 24/7, is becoming a reality

projects that continue building deserve our attention

Periods of decline are often seen as negative for the crypto ecosystem. Yet they also play an essential role: they help distinguish truly solid projects from those that rely mainly on speculation.

Since the beginning of 2026, several crypto projects have stopped operating, announced their shutdown, or become inactive. This “purge” phase brings to mind an important reality: in a difficult market, a project’s ability to keep building can be an interesting indicator of the strength of its fundamentals.

Within the BNB Chain ecosystem, projects like Lista and Unitas may be worth keeping an eye on in the yield sector. In the world of perpetual contracts, ASTER is also a project to watch.

On Sui, I’m particularly interested in #Haedal, a liquid staking protocol that allows users to stake their SUI while retaining some utility of their assets through the liquid token haSUI. The protocol continues to develop its infrastructure and integrate within Sui’s DeFi ecosystem.

For me, the appeal of this kind of project lies especially in its ability to keep building and evolving its product in a challenging market environment. Of course, this doesn’t mean it’s risk-free, but rather that resilience, development, and real activity are factors worth examining beyond just price movement.

So in a bear market, it can be useful to look beyond the charts and analyze projects’ fundamentals, development, adoption, security, transparency, and real-world usefulness.

As always in crypto, do your own research (DYOR) before making any investment decision.

#Crypto #Haedal #Sui #DeFi

🏦 BNY, which oversees more than $59 trillion in assets under management, will launch a blockchain-based transfer agency.

This new infrastructure will enable transactions and fund ownership rights to be recorded directly on a blockchain, while continuing to operate alongside BNY’s traditional systems.

The goal is to modernize fund management by bringing greater transparency, automation, and efficiency—without disrupting the existing infrastructure.

JUST IN: Emirates just became the first major Gulf airline to accept crypto payments for flight bookings ✈️

Customers can now pay directly on the Emirates app and website, scan a QR code, approve it in your wallet, and your ticket is issued instantly.

It's part of Dubai's push to make 90% of all transactions cashless by the end of 2026. 👀

🚨Bitcoin and ETH are dumping hard after US Senate delayed the Crypto clarity act.

🚨 EVERYTHING IS CRASHING...

US chip stocks crashed overnight.

Nvidia fell 4.4%.
Micron dropped nearly 5%.
SanDisk crashed more than 10%.

Now Asia is collapsing too.

Japan's Nikkei is down over 4%.

South Korea's KOSPI crashed 10%, triggering another circuit breaker.

Bitcoin also crashed below $63K

Here's why:

China has started producing its own advanced chipmaking machines, reducing its dependence on ASML and threatening the global chip supply chain.

At the same time, Nvidia's $750 billion deal wave is raising fears that AI companies are financing the same customers buying their chips.

And the biggest risk is still ahead.

The Fed meets tomorrow, with rate-hike odds surging from around 16% to nearly 38% in just one week. Bitcoin is already reacting.

BTC crashed below $63,000 as traders priced in a much higher chance of another rate hike.

Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Amazon are also reporting earnings within the same 72 hours.

Citadel Securities is now going further, calling for a surprise Fed rate hike this week, arguing Chair Kevin Warsh will move to strengthen his inflation fighting credibility even as most economists still expect a hold.

China, the Fed and Big Tech are all hitting the AI trade at once.

The next 72 hours could decide whether this is just a correction or the start of a much bigger crash.

Buckle up.

/ While exploring the Electric Capital dashboard, an ecosystem caught my attention.

Where most major blockchains see their number of full-time developers decline over a year, Stellar is one of the rare exceptions.

Ethereum : -40 %
Solana : -55.3 %
Stellar : +65.2 %

This kind of divergence is worth looking into.

When the National AI Initiative Act passed in 2021, AI companies were worth $6 Trillion.

5 years later, they are worth $21 Trillion.

Today, Crypto market is just $2.2 Trillion.

Imagine the pump once the Clarity Act passes.