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Полиция австралийского Сиднея рассказала о схеме мошенничества с криптовалютой, жертвами которой стали около 190 австралийцев, почти все — пенсионеры. Общий ущерб правоохранители оценили в $5 млн. Двое подозреваемых задержаны.

Сооснователь криптобиржи BitMEX Артур Хейс (Arthur Hayes) рассказал, что в его криптовалютном инвестиционном портфеле сейчас есть биткоин и три альткоина.

Глава отдела аналитики компании New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) Грег Чиполаро (Greg Cipolaro) рассказал, что «инвестиционная вселенная» крипторынка начинает постепенно сжиматься.

Автоматизированный бот для торговли криптовалютой Lobstar Wilde случайно отправил весь запас своих токенов пользователю, который представился нуждающимся в деньгах на лечение дяди.

Сооснователь Эфириума Виталик Бутерин предложил использовать симуляцию транзакций и схожие механизмы для повышения безопасности криптокошельков и смарт-контрактов, а также улучшения пользовательского опыта.

В социальных сетях снизилось количество чрезмерно оптимистичных прогнозов относительно роста курса биткоина, что является позитивным сигналом для рынка, сообщили аналитики платформы Santiment.

Аналитики ончейн-платформы CryptoQuant заявили, что в условиях медвежьего рынка ключевым фактором давления на цену биткоина становятся крупные держатели, наращивающие переводы монет на централизованные биржи.

Сенатор-республиканец штата Миссури Бен Китли (Ben Keathley) представил законопроект, разрешающий казначейству инвестировать бюджетные средства в биткоин и хранить приобретенные активы не менее пяти лет.

Ethereum slipped over the past two days as on-chain trackers flagged another burst of selling tied to Vitalik Buterin’s wallets, reviving a familiar narrative for traders: founder-linked distribution showing up alongside spot weakness.

Ethereum Pullback Coincides With Fresh Vitalik Sales

Lookonchain said Buterin has sold 1,869 ETH (about $3.67 million) over the past two days, a window in which ETH fell from $1,988 to $1,875, a 5.7% drawdown based on the figures cited in the post. The account framed the move as an acceleration: “vitalik.eth(@VitalikButerin) is selling ETH faster again. In the past 2 days, he has sold 1,869 ETH($3.67M). During that time, ETH fell from $1,988 to $1,875, down 5.7%.”

The sharper edge of the thread was the historical comparison. Lookonchain pointed to a previous episode when it said Buterin sold 6,958 ETH (about $14.78 million) and ETH subsequently fell from $2,360 to $1,825, a 22.7% decline. “Last time he sold 6,958 ETH($14.78M), $ETH dropped from $2,360 to $1,825 — a 22.7% fall,” the post added, linking to an Arkham entity page attributed to Buterin.

The comparison does not prove causation, but it’s exactly the kind of pattern-matching that can matter at the margin in a market primed to trade flows. Founder wallets are heavily monitored, and any hint of renewed supply can become a focal point for positioning—especially when price is already drifting lower.

Lookonchain’s earlier post dated Feb. 22 described the sequence as a return to activity after a pause. “After a two-week break, vitalik.eth(@VitalikButerin) is selling ETH again! 8 hours ago, he withdrew 3,500 ETH($6.95M) from Aave to sell. So far, he has already sold 571 ETH($1.13M),” the account wrote.

That detail matters because it frames the selling as an intentional unwind rather than passive movement between wallets. Pulling ETH from Aave, then selling portions, is the sort of breadcrumb traders look for when trying to distinguish “wallet housekeeping” from outright distribution.

The Feb. 22 posts also land on top of another Lookonchain note from Feb. 5, which described sustained selling over multiple days. “vitalik.eth(@VitalikButerin) is dumping ETH fast!” it said, adding: “Over the past 3 days, Vitalik has sold 2,961.5 $ETH($6.6M) at an average price of $2,228 — and the selling is still ongoing.”

For markets, the immediate question is whether this remains a contained, trackable flow or whether it becomes the kind of recurring headline that pulls liquidity and sentiment lower simply by staying in the tape. If additional wallet-linked sales surface, traders will likely keep stress-testing the “history repeating” narrative against price, rather than assuming the selling is the sole driver.

At press time, Ethereum traded at $1,884.

Биткоин переживает «кризис веры» после падения курса более чем на 40% от исторического максимума и сокращения рыночной капитализации примерно на $1 трлн, сообщили опрошенные Bloomberg аналитики. По их оценке, рынок не видит новых катализаторов роста.

Cardano впервые за полтора года выбыл из первой десятки криптовалют по капитализации. Инвесторы теряют интерес к ADA, а ценовая динамика выглядит слабой. Однако фундаментальные показатели и развитие экосистемы свидетельствуют о более сложной картине, чем показывает график.

In the course of the last few months, the Ethereum price has seen a lot of decline, struggling alongside Bitcoin as investors rush to offload their coins. These sell-offs have come in anticipation of lower price levels, and with the price continuing to dip further, it seems the investors who sold earlier were right. Even now, analysts continue to predict that the market decline will continue, with the likes of Ethereum expected to suffer major retracement before a bottom is established.

Technical Patterns Show Where Ethereum Is Headed Next

In an analysis shared on the TradingView website, crypto analyst Melikatrader outlined that the Ethereum price could be seeing another major crash soon. So far, the digital asset has seen its price consolidation in what appears to be a large symmetrical triangle pattern. This comes while the price continues to chop below $2,000.

Mainly, most of the action has happened as the Ethereum price has struggled around the $1,977 level, which the analyst explains that the lack of upward momentum at this level could mean that bears have now officially taken full control of the altcoin’s price.

Taking the technical action into account, the crypto analyst explains that the Ethereum price is now nearing the apex of a triangle pattern. This comes after the price had been tightly packed between two major converging trend lines. At this point, the Ethereum price would need to make a major move to confirm the next direction.

Nevertheless, the expected move for Ethereum at this level is expected to be bearish. Essentially, the crypto analyst tells traders to wait for a breakdown to follow and for the price to fall below the lower support line of the triangle. For context, this support line lies at $1,912, making it the level to beat for bears.

Once this level is triggered, though, then the next move is for the Ethereum price to fall further. Expectation remains that a break of the lower trendline would lead to a retest of the lower trendline that marks resistance. This trendline is at $1,781, making it the final target of the triangle breakdown. “Keep a close eye on the lower boundary. If that support snaps, we likely see a swift move toward the $1,780 level. Stay patient and wait for the confirmation,” the analyst said in closing.

Talk of quantum computers no longer sounds like science fiction at crypto events. At a recent developer gathering, the ETH Denver, engineers and security researchers turned their attention to a simple but unsettling question: what happens to Bitcoin if a powerful quantum machine comes online?

Reports have disclosed that new proposals are being folded into the network’s improvement process, laying early groundwork for defenses before any real crisis appears.

Quantum Computing: Why Hashing Is Not The Main Fear

Hashing—what miners and many parts of the system use—gets faster only a bit with quantum tricks. According to Lov Grover’s work, a quantum search method gives a square-root speedup, which changes safety margins but does not wipe them out.

In plain language: to break hashes at scale would need enormous, maybe unrealistic, machines under current models.

Signatures Face The Real Risk

Reports say the bigger worry is signatures. “What we’re worried about in the next five years are signatures, and that goes over with Shor’s,” Hunter Beast, co-author of BIP 360, said during the ETH Denver gathering.

The math behind most wallets today relies on elliptic curves, and Peter Shor showed a way a quantum machine could reverse that math.

That’s how a public key could reveal a private key once the right hardware exists. A blockchain security firm has been tracking addresses that have already exposed their public keys, and the numbers are not tiny.

Blockchain cybersecurity firm Project Eleven’s list flags millions of coins that, if an attacker had a big enough quantum device, would be at risk.

How Close Are We?

Estimates have been moving. Older papers put the needed resources in the many millions of qubits. More recent research from groups like Iceberg Quantum suggests the figure could be much lower, perhaps into the six-figure range.

Still, raw qubit counts tell only part of the story. What matters is how many “logical” qubits you can run with acceptable error rates, how long calculations take, and whether the machine can stay stable for that time.

Lab steps by big firms also matter; for example, Google has reported progress in error correction that many found encouraging. That doesn’t mean the break-in is imminent, but it does change risk models.

Where The Industry Stands

Reports note teams are forming to study and build defenses. The Ethereum Foundation has a post-quantum group, and major exchanges and firms are taking part in discussions.

Coinbase set up advisers, and its CEO, Brian Armstrong, has said the problem can be handled with planning. It is “solvable”, he said.

Featured image from Devfolio, chart from TradingView

The price of XRP has been relatively calm throughout February, especially following an early-month descent to just above $1.1. Hovering around $1.4, the second-largest altcoin has struggled to continue its recovery to around the $2 mark.

However, it appears the altcoin’s struggles might not last for long, especially if history repeats itself over the next few months. According to the latest on-chain data, XRP has surpassed a threshold that has coincided with a period of extended rally in the past.

XRP Price Surged 114% After Last Realized Loss Spike

In a February 21st post on the social media platform X, Santiment shared that XRP investors are realizing their losses at a rate not seen in nearly four years. The blockchain firm revealed that the volume of realized losses climbed to approximately 908 million in the past week.

As Santiment explained in its post, these significant realized losses occur when a large number of investors sell their coins at a price lower than what they originally paid. Typically, this period coincides with the peak of market fear, where investors panic-sell their holdings for a loss instead of holding on and hoping for a rebound.

However, a spike in realized losses can be a relevant positive signal, as it has been for the price of XRP in the past. This trend implies that a significant percentage of the weak hands have left the market, with much of the damage already done.

From a historical perspective, a surge in realized losses has often preceded market bottoms. When the previous weekly milestone of 1.93 billion in realized losses occurred in 2022, the altcoin’s value witnessed an over 114% surge in the following eight months.

Santiment wrote in the X post: 

This is because extreme fear tends to peak before price does. Once sellers are exhausted, even a small amount of new buying pressure can push prices higher. That does not guarantee an immediate rally, but it increases the probability of a bounce.

Nevertheless, it is worth mentioning that Ripple’s partial victory in its case against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission played a role in XRP’s 2023 surge. As shown in the chart below, the altcoin’s price appears to be seeing some bullish momentum since the notable realized loss spike. 

XRP Price At A Glance

As of this writing, the price of XRP stands at around $1.44, reflecting a 1% jump in the past 24 hours. An over 100% upswing from the current price point would see the altcoin return to around $3.

Bitcoin held its ground over the weekend as US President Donald Trump said late Saturday that he was increasing a recently announced global tariff from 10% to 15% and that the new rate would take effect immediately.

The move came after the US Supreme Court ruled to limit the legal authority previously used to impose broad import levies.

Bitcoin Unmoved

Cryptocurrencies barely budged on the news. Bitcoin hovered around the $68,000 mark while Ether showed little change, and smaller tokens lost under 1% in aggregate according to market trackers. Reports note that traders only saw a brief wobble before prices steadied, suggesting the shock was short lived.

Legal Limits And What They Mean

Based on reports, the shift to alternative trade laws limits how far a president can go with such tariffs. The statutes cited allow a temporary tariff capped at 15% and typically apply to countries where the US runs a trade deficit for a defined period of up to 150 days.

Legal experts say those constraints could keep the measure from becoming a permanent tax rise on imports.

Trump said on his Truth Social platform:

“As President of the United States of America, I will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% worldwide tariff on countries, many of which have been ‘ripping’ the US off for decades, without retribution, until I came along, to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level.” How Traders Might Be Thinking

Some investors appear to have treated the announcement as a headline event rather than the start of a lasting economic shock.

Volume patterns showed no sustained sell pressure, and risk appetite in crypto markets returned quickly. Reports say the earlier court ruling, which narrowed the executive branch’s emergency powers for tariffs, may have removed some uncertainty — at least for now.

Market sentinels will watch closely in the days ahead. If the White House tries to stretch the temporary authority or expand the list of targeted countries, that could change the tone in both crypto and equity markets.

Bigger Picture For The Economy

Raising an across-the-board tariff, even temporarily, raises questions about costs for businesses and consumers.

Import duties are often passed down the chain in the form of higher prices or tightened margins, and global trading partners are likely to push back diplomatically and legally.

Some foreign leaders and industry groups quickly criticized the move, warning it could slow growth and raise consumer bills.

Far from a market-draining shock, this episode so far reads like a high-profile policy stunt with limited immediate market effect.

That could change if the measure is stretched beyond the legal limits that lawmakers and courts have pointed to. For now, crypto traders seem to have chosen to watch and wait while prices remain near recent highs.

Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

Недавнее падение курса биткоина вызвано негативными настроениями инвесторов и давлением экономических факторов, считает стратег итальянской банковской группы UniCredit Томас Штробель (Thomas Strobel).

Децентрализованный протокол Structured, обещавший клиентам доход через токенизированные версии биткоина и другие производные инструменты, сообщил о прекращении операционной деятельности. Руководство пообещало полное погашение активов вкладчикам.

Stablecoin operator Tether has announced its decision to discontinue support for its offshore Chinese Yuan token CNH₮. The USDT operator has attributed this development to a lack of market demand, among other points.

Tether To Terminate CNH₮ Redemption In One Year 

In a recent blog post, Tether shared a strategic update on its CNH₮, communicating a management decision to withdraw the stablecoin product from its offerings. This decision is based on multiple factors centered around demand and operational efficiency.

A statement from the announcement read:

Community interest and adoption are central to every product decision we make. When evaluating whether to maintain or introduce a Tether token, we assess market demand, operational sustainability, and broader ecosystem conditions that influence long-term usability. Our priority is to allocate resources where they can most effectively enhance security, reliability, and innovation across the digital asset landscape.

Tether explains that the CNH₮ recorded low interest, adoption, and community demand compared to their products, thereby failing to produce an acceptable return on technical and operational efforts. 

As of this moment, all new issuance of CNH₮ has been halted. Meanwhile, CNH₮ users will have the next year to process any redemptions before the stablecoin is permanently phased out. The stablecoin operator will issue another reminder ahead of the redemption deadline. Following this development, Tether reiterates its commitment to stablecoin global growth and adoption. 

The statement read:

Tether will continue to focus its efforts on stablecoins and infrastructure that demonstrate strong, organic adoption and long-term relevance. This includes advancing core stablecoin liquidity, expanding tokenization infrastructure, and supporting new financial tools that better serve global users and builders.

Tether remains the operator of the world’s largest stablecoin, USDT, which presently boasts a total market cap of $183.7 billion. In January, the stablecoin company launched USAT, designed specifically for American users.

Nigeria Leads Demand For Stablecoins

In other news, a recent survey by BVNK has revealed that Africa’s largest economies are leading the demand for stablecoins. This survey, done in collaboration with Coinbase, YouGov, and Artemis, involved 4658 adults across 15 countries. The results revealed that 80% of Nigerian and South African respondents presently hold stablecoin, while 75% aim to increase holdings as citizens seek a haven from their local fragile currencies.

At press time, the total stablecoin market cap is valued at $310 billion, with high expectations of future market expansion following the approval of the GENIUS Act last July.

Занимающаяся добычей биткоинов сингапурская Bitdeer полностью распродала свой запас криптовалюты. За последнюю неделю компания добыла 189,8 BTC и весь этот объем продала, говорит свежий финансовый отчет. С чем связана распродажа, компания не уточнила.

Криптопроект IoTeX подвергся хакерской атаке. Злоумышленник получил доступ к смарт‑контрактам TokenSafe и MinterPool из‑за компрометации приватного ключа, сообщили специалисты компании PeckShield.