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X Wants to Lock Accounts for Their First Crypto Post
Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X, recently wrote that his team is working on a new anti-crypto-scam feature. The idea is simple: the first time an account posts about cryptocurrency, it gets locked. To unlock it, the user must complete identity verification. According to Bier, this could prevent up to 99% of scams - especially those where attackers take over...
The Quiet Risk No One Talks About: Regulators Can Freeze Everything
Everyone has heard how long it has taken MtGox and FTX to return funds to their users after going bankrupt. But there is another, somewhat similar story that deserves attention - the story of the fintech company ePayments. ePayments was founded in 2011 and operated steadily as an electronic money issuer under an FCA (UK) license. Later, it...
When Bitcoin Is Money, Not an Investment
Wang Chun, co-founder of one of the largest crypto mining pools, F2Pool, shared a striking story yesterday: * 11 years ago, he bought an apartment in Pattaya (Thailand) for 2,900 BTC; * yesterday, he sold it for 7 BTC. He sold it at a massive loss - and chose to tell the whole world about it. Why? I’m not sure I would have done the same. I’d probably have told the...
You Think Altcoins Have Bottomed? The Data Suggests Otherwise
According to CryptoQuant, more than 40% of altcoins are currently trading near their all-time lows. In the previous bear market, that figure was just 38%. When I first saw these numbers, I was genuinely surprised. I’ve long had the impression that the fate of most altcoins is essentially zero. Intuitively, it felt like if you pick almost any altcoin outside the top 300...
Who Gets the Power: Bitcoin or AI?
Artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies are not just competing for hardware and computing power. They are competing for the most basic resource of civilization: electricity. A few days ago, I wrote on the rabbit.io blog about the dilemma facing Laos’s energy sector: for five years, excess electricity was sold to miners, but now the government is considering redirecting...
A $1B Blockchain Securing a Much Bigger Bet
Have you noticed that the fully diluted valuation of POL - the governance token of the Polygon network - has fallen below $1 billion? About a year and a half ago, when Polymarket was rapidly gaining popularity, I suggested that Polygon had a real chance to carve out a highly profitable niche in the crypto ecosystem - as the...
Hong Kong's New Powers Turn Your Crypto Into Someone Else's Asset
The Times of India reported today that, starting in March 2026, police powers in Hong Kong have been expanded. In cases related to "national security", officers can now demand passwords and access to smartphones, laptops, and other devices. Refusing to comply - or providing false access - can lead to penalties, including imprisonment. These powers apply not only to Hong Kong residents but...
When Your Salary Isn’t Welcome in the Bank
Today, someone in a Telegram chat shared a message they had received from the support team of the European neobank bunq. You can see the message in the screenshot. The customer used the bank only to receive their salary. They didn’t keep the funds there - instead, they immediately transferred the money to other fintech services to exchange it for cryptocurrency. In my view...
Beyond DeFi: Where Stablecoins Can Earn Much More
The crypto industry still offers unique ways to earn yield. Most people look for somewhere to park their stablecoins in DeFi at 6-10% APY. But there are far less obvious opportunities that can deliver significantly higher returns - fully passively. I’m talking about prediction markets, where you can sometimes find truly unbelievable bets. For example, there’s a market on Polymarket betting that the US...
The Day Bitcoin Rewrote Itself: What Users Actually See
What happens to your exchange during moments like yesterday, when two Bitcoin blocks were orphaned and replaced by others? In reality, nothing bad happens at all. If the transaction sent to you by Rabbit.io had ended up in the original versions of blocks 941881 and 941882 - the ones mined by Antpool and ViaBTC and later replaced by blocks mined by...
