Daily Digest, July 16

📊 According to Bitwise’s “supply shock” model, Bitcoin could soon reach $150,000.

🐸 The 80,000 BTC that were being closely tracked belong to Adam Back—British cryptographer, creator of Hashcash, and one of the few who personally corresponded with Satoshi Nakamoto via email in Bitcoin’s early days.

☠️ Hackers breached BigONE exchange, stealing $27,000,000.

🪙 U.S. financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald plans to acquire $3.5 billion worth of BTC.

👁️ Nvidia secured approval from the Trump administration to sell its H20 chip in China after CEO Jensen Huang met with the U.S. president.

🕵️‍♂️ Another user lost $340,117 by signing a phishing transaction.

🧬 Developers proposed migrating Bitcoin users to quantum-resistant addresses, while freezing vulnerable ones with a recovery option.

🖨 Tether minted 2,000,000,000 USDT today.

🪙 Top 10 companies now hold 1,600,000 ETH (~$5B) in reserves—SharpLink leads with 280,600 ETH, surpassing even the Ethereum Foundation.

🇨🇳 CMBI (China Merchants Bank’s brokerage arm) became the first mainland Chinese broker licensed by Hong Kong’s SFC for crypto trading.

🇷🇺 Russia’s State Duma passed a law on the gradual integration of the digital ruble (CBDC) into the budget process.

🪙 BNB Chain announced it is building a next-gen blockchain—decentralized and open, yet with CEX-like speed and convenience.

🇺🇸 The White House is actively discussing the resignation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

🚓 U.S. authorities seized $10,000,000 in crypto from the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s most powerful drug syndicates.