GuShiio.com Japanese-listed company Metaplanet spent 4 billion yen to increase its holdings of 269.43 BTC; or affected by the removal of Binance: VITE fell 40% for a short time, AMB fell 22%; billionaire Paul Tudor Jones’s investment institution held US$426.9 million in BlackRock IBIT.
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Binance will remove AMB, CLV, STMX and VITE from February 24
Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones ‘investment arm holds $426.9 million in BlackRock IBIT
Bubblemaps: LIBRA and MELANIA tokens are suspected to be manipulated by the same conspiracy
Argentine President Javier Milei has been charged with fraud over the LIBRA token scandal
Or affected by the removal of currency security: VITE fell 40% in a short period of time, and AMB fell 22%
Vitalik will give a flash text interview on Tako from February 19th to 20th, and is now soliciting questions from the community
Analysis: BTC may remain sluggish in the short term, and the market prefers a US$110,000 BTC call option at the end of March
Japanese-listed company Metaplanet spends 4 billion yen to increase its holdings of 269.43 BTC units
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Crypto detectives discover new evidence proving Jack Dorsey and Bitcoin are closely related
Us entrepreneur Jack Dorsey is once again speculated to be behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, and a post on platform X has reignited debate about one of the biggest mysteries in the encrypted currency world to date, according to Cointelegraph. Se á n Murray, president and editor-in-chief of financial news site deBanked, compiled a list of facts, numbers and dates related to bitcoin in a post on platform X on Feb. 15, which he said was also related to Dorsey, and Dorsey has been one of the strongest advocates of bitcoin for more than a decade. However, some people think that the evidence is inconclusive. Jack Dorsey denied that he was Satoshi Nakamoto in an interview with computer scientist and podcast Lex Fridman in April 2020. However, Murray said he thought Dorsey was “probably” Satoshi Nakamoto, noting that Dorsey had shown a cypherpunk tendency since he studied computer science at university in 1996, such as wearing an RSA shirt by Adam Back, the inventor of Hashcash, and later wrote a manifesto in 2001 about how to leave a mark on the world without leaving a trace. One of Murray’s most striking observations is that the first bitcoin transaction took place on Dorsey’s mother’s birthday on Jan. 11, while Satoshi Nakamoto allegedly dug up the last bitcoin chunk on his father’s birthday, March 5, 2010. Murray also said that Satoshi Nakamoto allegedly signed up for a bitcoin forum on Dorsey’s birthday on Nov. 19. At the same time, Murray claimed that the timestamps of the original bitcoin source code documents were accurate to 4 a.m.-although it was not clear which time zone-Murray claimed that this was the time that Dorsey had set in Twitter profiles. Satoshi Nakamoto is said to have used “brute force cracking” to create a bitcoin address, including an address that starts with “jD2m”, which Murray claims stands for “Jack Dorsey 2 Mint”, referring to Dorsey’s former home in San Francisco at 2 Mint Plaza. Dorsey did not confirm this. Murray also claimed that Satoshi Nakamoto “accidentally” logged on to the Internet relay chat on January 10, 2009, showing the location of Twitter, a real IP address in California, where Dorsey spent most of his time. Murray said Satoshi Nakamoto told people not to donate bitcoins to WikiLeaks on the Bitcoin Forum on December 5, 2010, noting that nine days later, on December 14, Twitter received a “secret court order” requiring it to hand over all information about WikiLeaks. Dorsey was not Twitter’s CEO at the time, but remained on the company’s board of directors. Murray also claimed that Satoshi Nakamoto logged on to the Bitcoin forum for the last time the day before, on Dec. 13.
Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones ‘investment arm holds $426.9 million in BlackRock IBIT
According to Cointelegraph, the investment arm of billionaire Paul Tudor Jones disclosed that it held $426.9 million in BlackRock IBIT, twice the position it last reported in an SEC filing.
Japanese-listed company Metaplanet spends 4 billion yen to increase its holdings of 269.43 BTC units
According to Bitcoin Magazine, Japanese-listed company Metaplanet announced that as part of its ongoing Bitcoin financial operations, the company has spent 4 billion yen (approximately US$26.39 million) to increase its holdings of 269.43 bitcoins, increasing its Bitcoin holdings to 2,031.41, with a cumulative purchase amount of 24.872 billion yen (approximately US$164 million).
Bubblemaps: LIBRA and MELANIA tokens are suspected to be manipulated by the same conspiracy
Blockchain data company Bubblemaps posted on the X platform: “Libra is actually the same team behind MELANIA and other short-lived tokens. After analyzing cross-chain transfers and time patterns, we are highly convinced that this speculation is correct. It all started with our investigation of sniper activity on MELANIA. There was one address that stood out: P5tb4, which made more than $2.4 million in profits, but there were other things that caught our attention. The address sends all profits to 0xcEA, a wallet associated with the creator of MELANIA, and transfers are made through the USDC Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP). There are multiple ways to connect 0xcEA to the creators of MELANIA, including fund transfers and cross-chain transfers, and we are sure these are no coincidences. This means that Melania’s creator-or someone close to his team-may have personally participated in sniping at his own project launch. A few weeks later, we noticed that 0xcEA was funding DEfcyK, the creator of LIBRA, who had withdrawn 87 million LIBRA coins. To make matters worse, 0xcEA also hacked LIBRA and made a profit of $6 million, using multiple sidechain addresses funded through CCTP.”
Argentine President Javier Milei has been charged with fraud over the LIBRA token scandal
Argentina’s lawyers have filed a lawsuit against the country’s President Javier Milei for alleged fraud over his participation in the LIBRA token project, The Block reported. The scandal escalated after the weekend, when the value of the token plunged 95% after Milei’s initial promotion. “This illegal group committed fraud and the president’s actions played a key role in it,” plaintiff Jonatan Baldivizo said. Another plaintiff, Claudio Lozano, was an economist who had served as governor of the Central Bank of Argentina; a lawyer and an engineer also joined the lawsuit. A judge in the case could be appointed as early as tomorrow. Milei denied having prior knowledge of the token project and insisted he was innocent of the scandal. His government announced yesterday that it would launch its own investigation into the token project, while his political opponents called for an impeachment trial. “In view of the facts, President Javier Milei has decided to immediately involve the Anti-Corruption Office (OA) to determine whether any member of the national government, including the President himself, has acted improperly,” his announcement translated. Project consultant Hayden Davis accused Milei of withdrawing support for the project, causing prices to fall and investors to lose confidence.
Cantor Fitzgerald purchased more than $1 billion worth of MSTR shares in Q4 last year
According to Bitcoin News, bond trading giant Cantor Fitzgerald, under the previous leadership of Howard Lutnick, purchased more than $1 billion worth of MicroStrategy (MSTR) shares in the fourth quarter of 2024, making it the company’s largest shareholder. Its average buying price is $229, and the value of these stocks has increased by 47%. Lutnick is currently the head of the newly established sovereign wealth fund established by U.S. President Trump and concurrently serves as Secretary of Commerce.
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Binance will remove AMB, CLV, STMX and VITE from February 24
Binance announced that it will remove and stop trading the following spot trading pairs starting from 11:00 (Beijing time) on February 24, 2025: AMB/USDT, CLV/BTC, CLV/USDT, STMX/TRY, STMX/USDT and VITE/USDT. All outstanding pending orders will be automatically cancelled after the transaction is stopped. Starting from 11:00 (Beijing time) on February 25, 2025, the recharge of relevant tokens will no longer be credited to the user’s account, and the withdrawal service will continue until 11:00 (Beijing time) on April 24, 2025.
LIBRA project consultant Hayden Davis admitted that the project team sniped when LIBRA was launched
YouTube blogger Coffeezilla posted an interview with “Hayden Davis”, one of the four major creators of the LIBRA token. During the interview, he admitted that the LIBRA team sniped when LIBRA was launched, and the MELANIA team also sniped when MELANIA was launched. Coffeezilla also mentioned that the other three LIBRA officials are Julian Peh (Kip Protocol), Mauricio Novelli (Argentina Science and Technology Forum) and Manuel Godoy (Argentina Science and Technology Forum). On February 14, 2025, the project received support from Javier Milei.
Vitalik will give a flash text interview on Tako from February 19th to 20th, and is now soliciting questions from the community
Mable Jiang, chief revenue officer of FSL, said on its social platform: “Vitalik will be invited to conduct a flash text interview between 12pm UTC on February 19 and 12pm UTC on February 20. The specific form is: Before the AMA, Mable Jiang would create a new AMA circle ‘flash interview circle’ in the Tako App to collect questions submitted by everyone. Each question from Mable Jiang will be a separate post in the circle, and Vitalik will quote my question post in the circle to respond. Viewers can comment on each of his answers. In addition, from now until February 19, 12am UTC (12 hours before the start of the AMA), Mable Jiang will open the community to collect various constructive questions, and select 5 constructive and high-quality questions from them to be raised in the AMA. The five selected questioners will receive FSLEcossystem’s GMTPay test qualification and a gift card of 200 USD per person in GMTPay (which can be installed on mobile phones for online and offline consumption). The prize pool is sponsored by Tako.”
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Michael Saylor: Will continue to acquire Bitcoin and will not face risks due to price fluctuations. The opportunity of hundreds of billions of dollars lies in Layer3
According to Wu said, Michael Saylor, founder of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), said in an interview with the media: “We will continue to develop Bitcoin and regard it as ‘digital Manhattan’-a digital asset. We will continue to acquire Bitcoin and then use it as collateral to start other businesses. As the price of Bitcoin rises, we will continue to do similar things while also seeing new opportunities.” In addition, regarding the view that “MicroStrategy may be at risk if its average bitcoin purchase price exceeds US$150,000,” Michael Saylor expressed disagreement with this view, because most of the company’s bitcoins are acquired through equity, and the bitcoins it owns are used as collateral. 15 times the debt. Moreover, its debt is non-recoverable and has a maturity of more than four years, which means that even if Bitcoin plummets 98%, the company will not face liquidation risks. The company has permanent capital. Michael Saylor said he does not pay attention to the Bitcoin price cycle and believes that Bitcoin will increase by an average of 29% per year over the next 21 years; based on this benchmark, by 2045, the price of each Bitcoin will reach 13 million US dollars. He also said that MicroStrategy will not lend or pledge Bitcoin to earn interest in the future, and expects that we will grow from only a few companies adopting the Bitcoin standard to dozens or hundreds, and eventually thousands of companies will join. Regarding whether to develop a Bitcoin second-layer network, Michael Saylor said that his company will first observe market development and believes that MicroStrategy can be regarded as already running on Bitcoin’s third-layer network. He said: “In the future, second-tier solutions like Lightning may be successful, but I think the real billion-dollar opportunities currently lie at the third level.” Regarding his views on other cryptocurrencies, Michael Saylor said: “Why hold the next best thing? You just need the best one, and Bitcoin is the best one.” Regarding how much cryptocurrency he personally owns, Michael Saylor said: “I don’t own any other cryptocurrencies. About four years ago, I publicly disclosed that I owned 17,732 bitcoins at a purchase price of just under $10,000 each. I have bought some more since then, but I have never sold them. As a result, I now hold more bitcoin than I did then, but I have not publicly disclosed how much I have increased.”
Jupiter: Did not participate in the release of LIBRA in any form, and no team members were found to rush to raise funds
Regarding LIBRA tokens, Solana Ecological Decentralized Exchange Jupiter said on platform X: “A small number of members of the team learned directly from Kelsier Ventures about two weeks ago that at some point, there would be a token project related to Argentine President Javier Milei. Although we were initially skeptical about this, we then saw credible evidence on Milei’s personal account Twitter that he was quite serious about the matter. This is all we know. We had no understanding of the transactions between Milei and market makers, and we were never involved in them in any form.” Jupiter also said that in the meme coin circle, the news that an “Argentine coin” is about to be issued has long been an open secret, but adhering to its principle of confidentiality, Jupiter has never disclosed this to anyone, whether online or offline. In addition, no one on the team has received any LIBRA tokens or related remuneration. No developer of Jupiter products knew in advance the release date, time, or contract address (CA). Only Meow himself learned about this on the day of the release, but he did not know the contract address or the specific time, and was not involved in any way. Ben from Meteora learned the contract address a few minutes before release to verify it, but only shared it with the Jupiter team after the information was made public. Jupiter neither verified the contract address in advance nor immediately, which is completely different from the FUD circulated on Twitter. Instead, Jupiter is waiting for public confirmation from Milei’s Twitter account and sufficient transaction volume. In addition, Jupiter said: “We take allegations of insider trading extremely seriously. We have conducted our own investigation and have not found any evidence of team members rushing to raise funds. If you have evidence that Jupiter employees leaked information or stole funds, please contact us directly.”
Zhao Changpeng: I hope to see more on-chain AI agent development and refuse to promote specific tokens
Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) said on the X platform that he did not want to promote any specific AI proxy token. But I hope to see more on-chain AI agent development with practical use cases. Real development usually occurs after the hype has passed.
Hashed Partner: Meme coins need to rely on community beliefs and sustainable values to survive
Ryan Kim, a partner at Hashed, said that although many tokens with Ponzi economic characteristics have collapsed, some Memecoin have survived. He believes that the key to the survival of these tokens lies in the enthusiasm and almost religious beliefs of the community. Ryan pointed out that to survive in the long term, Meme coins need to pursue sustained and achievable values, such as love, peace and community spirit, rather than relying solely on short-term hype and market sentiment.
Syncracy Capital: The current market panic over SOL is a good investment opportunity
Daniel Cheung, co-founder of Syncracy Capital, said that the current market panic about SOL (Solana) is intensifying, but he believes that Solana is still the leading blockchain in this cycle. He predicts that Solana-related ETFs may be launched earlier than generally expected in the market. He advises investors to enter when the market is scared, believing it is an attractive risk-reward opportunity for investors willing to hold on to it for a few months.
Analysis: BTC may remain sluggish in the short term, and the market prefers a US$110,000 BTC call option at the end of March
Although Bitcoin (BTC) continues to fluctuate in a narrow range between $95,000 and $100,000 this month, traders remain bullish. According to Amberdata data, the $110,000 call option on the Deribit platform that expires on March 28 became the most popular trading strategy this month, with a cumulative net premium of more than $6 million paid. Greg Magadini, head of derivatives at Amberdata, said that Bitcoin prices have not risen significantly due to good news, such as MicroStrategy’s continued holdings and Abu Dhabi’s $436 million investment in the Bitcoin ETF. At the same time, macroeconomic headwinds and the “boom-bust” cycle of small-cap tokens have limited Bitcoin’s upside. For example, the market value of the token called LIBRA recently soared to US$4 billion, but plunged 90% in a few minutes. In addition, high inflation data in the United States also put pressure on market sentiment. Magadini pointed out that despite some good news, the overall market showed low volatility and sideways conditions, dragged down by the increased supply of altcoins and negative news. In this environment, the Bitcoin market may continue to maintain a sluggish trend in the short term.
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Analysis: The LIBRA team suspected of using 3 internal wallets to buy $1.6 million in LIBRA, making a profit of $6.65 million
According to Lookonchain monitoring, the LIBRA team suspected of using three internal wallets to snap up its own tokens, making a profit of approximately US$6.65 million. Hours before LIBRA went online, the wallet address 0xcEAe… 06e2 used Avalanche to bridge US$1.6 million to Solana’s three wallets, and snapped up 3.77 million LIBRA tokens. Then, it quickly sold out and sold US$8.25 million in USDC, making a net profit of US$6.65 million. In addition, the wallet was also found to bridge USDC from Avalanche to Solana to compensate Dave Portnoy, so it is speculated that 0xcEAe… 06e2 may belong to the LIBRA team.
The 11.2 million SOL pieces auctioned at FTX bankruptcy will be unlocked on March 1, worth approximately US$2.06 billion
According to@ai_9684xtpa monitoring, 11.2 million SOL pieces (worth approximately US$2.06 billion) auctioned by FTX in bankruptcy will be unlocked on March 1, 2025. Previously, FTX sold a total of 41 million SOL units through three auctions. The main buyers and their return rates were as follows: Galaxy purchased 25.52 million units at US$64 each, with a return rate of 187%;Pantera and other buyers purchased 13.67 million units at US$95 each, with a return rate of 93%;Figure and other buyers purchased 1.8 million units at US$102 each, with a return rate of 80%.
Or affected by the removal of currency security: VITE fell 40% in a short period of time, and AMB fell 22%
According to Binance market data, or affected by Binance’s removal, AMB fell 22% in the short term, and is now quoted at US$0.00325, and the lowest fell to US$0.00293; VITE fell 40.01% in the short term, and is now quoted at US$0.00484, and the lowest fell to US$0.0044; STMX fell 8% in the short term, and is now quoted at US$0.00394; CLV fell 1.15% in the short term, and is now quoted at US$0.04659. According to previous news, Binance will remove AMB, CLV, STMX and VITE from the shelves on February 24.
A giant whale is at risk of being liquidated on Compound, involving 488.49 WBTC
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a giant whale Compound platform is at risk of being liquidated, involving 488.49 WBTC (worth US$46.99 million). The current health rate is 1.02 and the liquidation price is $91,785. During the price decline in 2022, the giant whale faced liquidation three times, losing a cumulative amount of 74,426 cWBTC units (worth US$32.82 million).
Suspected Barstool founder received US$5 million in compensation after losing US$5.34 million in buying LIBRA
According to Lookonchain monitoring, an insider knew in advance that LIBRA was going online, but bought it too late and lost 26,577 SOLs (US$5.34 million), but he seems to have been compensated for 5 million USDC units.@ Choserich disclosed that the wallet may belong to Bartool Sports founder Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente). The day before LIBRA went online, the wallet “3apupK… Z1LF” was created and received 29,000 SOL (US$5.76 million). The wallet started buying LIBRA about 9 minutes after it went online, when the price had soared to $1.75. The wallet spent 28,740 SOLs (US$5.77 million) to purchase 2.3 million LIBRA units for an average price of US$2.51. LIBRA prices began to fall after hitting $4.56, causing the wallet to lose more than $5 million. After receiving 4.5 million USDC, the wallet cleared Libra and received 2,163 SOL (US$430,000), and then received 500,000 USDC. It is worth noting that this wallet also received 650,000 LIBRA pieces from the LIBRA team, but they were quickly returned.
