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📉 Most altcoin losses start before the buy What wrecks traders isn’t just bad timing — it’s false assumptions: ➡️ Thinking all coins will revisit ATH ➡️ Ignoring BTC underperformance ➡️ Forgetting that price = narrative, not fundamentals The best altcoin trades are lonely and boring. Not popular and obvious. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

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🥷Arkham reveals the biggest Bitcoin theft in history In a new report, Arkham confirms that 127,426 BTC ($3.5B at the time, ~$14.5B now) were stolen from Chinese mining pool LuBian in December 2020. ➡️LuBian controlled ~6% of BTC hashrate in May 2020 ➡️ Attack began Dec 28 — over 90% of pool funds drained ➡️Dec 29: another $6M in BTC and USDT stolen from Omni wallet ➡️Dec 31: remaining assets moved to cold wallets ➡️ LuBian sent 1,516 OP_RETURN messages to hacker addresses, asking for funds back ➡️Messages cost 1.4 BTC — strong evidence they came from the real team ➡️ Arkham says the pool used a weak key generation algorithm vulnerable to brute-force attacks ➡️11,886 BTC were saved and remain untouched ➡️ Stolen BTC last moved in July 2024 (wallet consolidation only) The LuBian hacker now ranks among the top 13 BTC holders globally — ahead of the Mt. Gox exploiter. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

⏬ Record outflows from ETFs ➡️ $333.19M left Bitcoin ETFs ➡️ $465.06M exited Ethereum ETFs Significant outflows suggest profit-taking and risk-off sentiment. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

⏬ Ethereum gas fees hit a new local low. Ethereum gas fees have dropped below 0.2 gwei — the cheapest they’ve been in years. If you’ve been putting things off, now’s the time to move: ➡️ Clear dust from old wallets ➡️ Consolidate tokens or LPs ➡️ Claim airdrops or migrate vaults ➡️ Revoke old contract approvals ➡️ Experiment with DeFi apps cheaply Low gas isn’t just convenient. It’s opportunity — especially before the next wave of activity hits. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

JUST IN: The issue causing abnormal block halts in the Base network has been resolved, as indicated on the blockchain's status page at 14:44 (UTC+8). The official team is actively monitoring the situation.

JUST IN: Base has halted block production, according to Basescan data.

Never fade the general market trend. In an uptrend, don't short. In a downtrend, don't long. Trying to time local tops and bottoms is just a quick way to lose money. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

JUST IN: Coinbase plans to include Mamo (MAMO) in its listing roadmap. Mamo is an AI agent aimed at managing and expanding users' investment portfolios in the personal finance industry.

⚠️ $908K lost in a single phishing approval 458daysago, a user unknowingly signed a malicious approval. Yesterday, the scammerdrained the wallet. Another reminder: approvals don’t expire and they can cost everything. How to protect yourself👇 ➡️ Use tools like Revoke.cash to check and remove old approvals. ➡️ Never sign random transactions, especially from unknown dApps or messages. ➡️ Regularly clean your approvals, especially for stablecoins and high-value tokens. ➡️ Set spend limits instead of infinite approvals when possible. ➡️ Use hardware wallets and turn on phishing protection extensions. It takes 2 minutes to revoke — and can save your entire portfolio. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

🪙How Figma’s CEO made $9M flipping CryptoPunks Before the IPO headlines, DylanField was already making waves — as one of the earliest Punkcollectors in crypto history. ➡️ In Dec 2017, he bought his first Punk (#2466) for just 0.12 ETH ($94) ➡️ On Jan 1, 2018, he went on a buying spree: 8 Punks in a day, including a zombie and an ape ➡️ His biggest move: Alien Punk #7804 for 12 ETH — later sold for 4,200 ETH ($7.7M) ➡️ In Feb 2021, sold Ape Punk for 800 ETH ($1.5M+) ➡️ Reinvested in Wild Hair Punks during the 2021 bull run ➡️ Today, he still holds 14 Punks and hasn’t sold since One of the rare NFT collectors who made it… and then IPO’d for dessert. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

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