🪙 A solo Bitcoin miner has mined a block, earning 3.17BTC ($371K)

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You need 3 things for peak happiness

➡️ Genuine relationships
➡️ A healthy body
➡️ Money

Don't chase only wealth.
Money alone will just make you miserable.

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🏦 13 of the top 25 U.S. banks are building Bitcoin products

This isn’t about one headline pump, it’s about building the rails that move Bitcoin into every wealth account in America.

➡️ On-ramp – HNW custody and pilot trading first, so advisors have something compliant to pitch.

➡️ Model portfolios – BTC gets a 1–3% sleeve in standard wealth models. Automatic buys across thousands of accounts.

➡️ Embedded rails – brokerage buttons, rewards cards, exchange integrations. Small flows, daily, forever.

➡️ Incentives – advisors get paid on AUM and retention. They’ll push what’s safe, easy, and fee-generating.

This isn’t froth at the top. It’s slow, steady adoption. The kind that compounds quietly, until it doesn’t.

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📈 2025 ICO scoreboard

Some projects show 600%+, others barely doubled.

But the chart hides the real story: low floats, launchpad games, and thin liquidity.

In this market, ROI often tells you who got in early, not who will survive long term.

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⚡️ Latest Crypto Rundown!

Project updates:

➡️ Opensea — New task in the Rewards section make a $50 swap on any network.

➡️ Pharos — New NFT mint “PNS Testnet Badge” for 1 $PHRS.

➡️ Linea — $LINEA just appeared on the MEXC pre-market, currently trading at $0.057.

➡️ Hyperlane — Claim is open for users active between March 1 and June 30, 2025.

➡️ Portal — Shared updated tokenomics. Community rewards increased to 10.7%.

➡️ Gata — Announced new “Quest Rush” campaign with other projects on Galxe. Deadline Aug 22.

Global news:

➡️ MicroStrategy — Bought another 430 BTC at $119,666 each. Total stack: 629,376 BTC with an average cost basis of $73,320.

➡️ Thailand — Launching TouristDigiPay, a service for tourists to convert crypto into baht and pay via QR codes.

➡️ BTCS — Announced the first-ever dividends in Ethereum: $0.05 in ETH per share, plus $0.35 if shares are transferred and held until Jan 26, 2026.

➡️ PumpFun — Former developer Jarrett Dunn admitted stealing $2M in Solana from the platform.

➡️ OpenAI — Planning to raise trillions for data centers. Sam Altman even floated interest in buying Chrome if Google is forced to sell (pending US gov approval).

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📉 Google searches for “alt season” just hit a blow-off top

Yesterday retail begged for a dip.
Today we get one and the mood flips to “it’s over.”

➡️ Retail conviction is weak, and that’s exactly why most won’t make it.

❕Remember - we’re in the middle of a bull market.
Don’t get shaken out by headlines designed to make you sell your tokens.

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⚖️ Maker vs Taker explained

In trading, every order is either adding or removing liquidity. Knowing the difference helps you read orderflow better.

➡️ Makers place limit orders — they provide liquidity and often defend key levels

➡️ Takers use market orders — they remove liquidity and pay higher fees

➡️ Spotting when takers chase into exhaustion or makers absorb at support gives you an edge

It’s not just who trades, it’s how they trade. Understanding this flow can sharpen your entries and exits.

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📣 Plasma ($XPL) partners with Binance

$USDT on Binance Earn will now be automatically deposited to Plasma, generating yield. Binance will also distribute 1% of the total Plasma supply to early participants.

➡️Campaign starts Aug 20 with per-user limits and a 1% XPL pool (100M).

➡️Runs until TGE or until deposit cap is reached.

And by the way - the pre-market is already trading at 6x the ICO price.

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🪐 Wormhole Challenges LayerZero Over Stargate

Wormhole Foundation plans to submit a “significantly higher bid” for Stargate ($STG), calling the project undervalued.

➡️ LayerZero has already offered $110M in $ZRO tokens
➡️ Wormhole says it will top that figure
➡️ The foundation asked for a 5-day pause in Snapshot voting to finalize its offer

A bidding war could decide Stargate’s future and reshape the cross-chain landscape.

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Hyperliquid just became the company with the highest revenue per employee in the world.

They only have 12 employees.

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🌐 ConsenSys: the fund that shaped Web3

ConsenSys isn’t just another VC. It’s a builder at the core of Web3, creating dApps, tools, and infrastructure that still define the industry today.

👀 Numbers that matter:
➡️ 74 investment rounds
➡️ Average check: $3–10M
➡️ Main stage: Seed
➡️ Retail ROI: 11.75x
➡️ Around 28% of their portfolio projects end up with a tradable token

📌 Tokens backed early by ConsenSys include: Uniswap, StarkNet, Axie Infinity, Rocket Pool, Ether.fi, Biconomy, Puffer Finance, Decentraland, and more.

If you see ConsenSys on a project’s cap table, the odds of a future token launch are far above average.

This is one of the most influential funds in the space and its presence is rarely just symbolic.

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