#IOTA found its speed limit.
Internal load tests topped out at ~1,100 TPS on an 11-validator setup. The bottleneck wasn’t consensus. It was transaction checking after it.
69% of the consensus handler’s CPU went to reading and checking inputs.
$IOTA
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#Bitcoin lost the $75.6K line and the money is leaving with it.
Stablecoin supply: shrinking at the fastest pace since June 2022.
ETFs: net sellers.
Coinbase: trading at a discount.
Glassnode’s levels to watch: $73K, then $58.5K.
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$ETH Tests $2,000 as ETF Outflows Dry Up and Staking Queue Swells
#Ethereum
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Fed Hike Odds Hit 85% After Hot CPI. Here’s What December Means for #Bitcoin
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TRONAgg: Pay Less for USDT Transfers on TRON and Earn From Your TRX
#TRONAgg $TRX
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#SynergyNetwork Relaunches Fully On-Chain SNRG Presale, Advancing Post-Quantum Layer-1 Blockchain Toward Mainnet
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#Bitcoin was sold as digital gold. Then stocks wobbled and BTC fell below $76K, wiping $140B off the market in four hours.
A real safe haven doesn’t do that. So what is Bitcoin, really?
bitcoin:native
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Small export deals often don’t get funded because verifying them costs more than they return. A public ledger like #IOTA lets anyone relying on a record check it. Could that change trade finance?
$IOTA #Web3Gaming
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“$100K by year-end” needs a ~35% jump from here in under 2 months.
Possible? Sure. A base case? Not really.
Crypto’s most likely finish to 2026: a grind. 👇
#Bitcoin
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#Strategy bought 1,036 BTC for $81.9M at $79,012 each, lifting its stack to 850,364 $BTC, about 4.05% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist. But there’s a twist in where the rest of its cash went.
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Bet25.com Launches Zero Margin Sportsbook to Eliminate Hidden House Edges
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#Crypto built its brand on “don’t trust, verify.”
Then it applauded a president whose family profited from the same rules and said almost nothing.
The industry didn’t lose credibility to #Trump . It traded it away. 👇
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Is #Trump good or bad for crypto?
Both sides have a point. Supporters credit him with GENIUS and a friendlier regulatory climate. Critics say the family’s crypto businesses undercut the gains. We lay out both cases. 👇
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Crypto spent $233M on the midterms. 💸
The result: Sherrod Brown is back, Warren is tipped to chair Senate Banking, and the CLARITY Act still stalled 49–50.
So what did the money actually buy? 👇
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Crypto spent $176M on the midterms. The CLARITY Act still stalled, and the market shrugged at the Democratic sweep anyway.
So how much does Washington really move prices?
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#Binance is closing all French accounts on Dec. 31. Anyone with assets left after Nov. 29 pays a monthly fee of 0.025% (min. 10 $USDC). The MiCA licence miss is catching up with the exchange.
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Protesters broke into Microsoft’s Amsterdam data center site, climbing a crane and setting off flares. Police detained 150-200 people. Europe’s anti-data center movement is escalating.
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IPX Plans to Bring ‘minicoin’ Payments to LINE FRIENDS Online and Offline Stores, Expanding IP Experiences Beyond Content and Merchandise
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#Bitcoin Core dev Cory Fields floats “quantum landmines”: anyone trying to move quantum-exposed BTC would have to lock up matching collateral first. If the real owner shows up, they claim both the coins and the thief’s stake.
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🚨LATEST: Binance hackers are using NEVER SEEN BEFORE laundering patterns as stolen funds are being rapidly circulated through thousands of transactions, per Chainalysis.
Instead of moving funds along a straightforward trail, the attackers repeatedly send them between wallets, including back to addresses used earlier.
The speed and repeated patterns suggest automation designed to obscure the money trail.
Binance’s Richard Teng says the attackers used a “self-destruct mechanism” to destroy tools and traces during the intrusion.
Early findings from Elliptic showed almost NONE of the stolen funds had reached mixers, bridges or exchanges, making the unusual wallet movements particularly striking.
They also rushed to swap freezeable stablecoins into assets such as ETH and move funds between addresses before blacklists could catch up. These efforts were only partly successful.
The tactics complicate tracing and recovery, but they do not make the stolen funds invisible.
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