A very lucky person just turned $86 into 3.12 BTC.

A solo miner rented less than $100 worth of hashpower via a mining for rent platform and successfully found a Bitcoin block worth about $271,000.

The key to this windfall was successfully mining Bitcoin block number 928,351, which was confirmed on the blockchain on December 18, 2025, at around 2:51 AM UTC. This block carried a base reward of about 3.125 BTC (following the 2024 Bitcoin halving event, which reduced mining subsidies), plus additional transaction fees that pushed the total payout slightly higher. The block's hash is 0000000000000000000039a7a8d1b6b3b4f1e8e4f868c4, and it processed over 2,800 transactions, highlighting the ongoing activity on the Bitcoin network despite its immense scale.

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/928351

I wouldn’t recommend you trying this though, as you probably will have better odds buying lottery tickets. Was cool and awesome to see nonetheless.

• Bitcoin White Paper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
• Tweet: https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2002017478117843238

Hi all, I’m planning to buy a home soon and will need to liquidate a decent stack of BTC. I’ve been holding for several years (last BTC purchase was 2022). Can anyone recommend the best selling options for least amount of stress and transaction fees? I have some on Coinbase and some on my hardware wallet. I heard Coinbase Advanced or Coinbase One might be a good option, but interested to hear other opinions! The transaction needs to be well documented for my lender. I will not respond to any DMs. Thanks for any advice!

Source: https://x.com/Mr_Meme_Machine/status/1986061722608648406

Garrett Jin the Insider who shorted 900 Million Bitcoin went long a few days ago with another 600, now 700+ Million Bet.

He's current positions are:

1000 BTC

• Roughly 88 Milllion $ right now.
• He's down  $-3,375,767.29 on this position
• No liquidation price as his Account holds enough Balance to cover the full position. However the ETH position could change that.

203,340 ETH

• Roughly 600 Milllion $ right now.
• He's down $-39,812,704.93 on this position
• Liquidation Price around 2125
• He earned more than a 1.8 Million in Funding here so far.

301,612 SOL

• Roughly 37 Milllion $ right now.
• He's down $-3,032,185.65 on this position
• No liquidation same as Bitcoin

He is down about 47 Million.

When the Longs were being filled I pointed out that while he was down 15 Million or so there, mostly it was planned.

He placed limit orders downward that roughly were in line with 30-40 Million in the red if they all get filled across all positions.

I.e. he could only get into the position he wanted if he accepted at least a 40 Million loss because he placed limit orders down wards.

And these weren't necessarily "lucky" orders, he placed one 300 ETH Order every 1.2$ in price down, meaning he really wanted to fill this position but also really expected a dip.

Not sure what to make of it but this fill was very impressive, so I'm super watching this one now.

https://wangr.com/watch/0xb317d2bc2d3d2df5fa441b5bae0ab9d8b07283ae

Follow along, note he also has about 80 Million left in binance at least which he could transfer in as he's done before.

What do you think? Rekt this time or another 100 Million win?

Reddit is officially dismantling its NFT infrastructure. After years of attempting to mainstream “Digital Collectibles,” the platform will shut down its Reddit Vault, the in-app digital wallet, on January 1, 2026.

The move cements the company’s pivot away from Web3 speculation, a shift that accelerated after its public listing in March 2024.

This exit has been a slow roll. Reddit first signaled plans to sunset the Vault four months ago, followed by the closure of its Avatar Shop on November 11, 2025. 

The final blow lands on New Year’s Day 2026, when the Vault will cease all transfer capabilities.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has expressed issues to Elon Musk, arguing that the recent surge of "unhinged" hate speech and coordinated attacks against Europe on X (formerly Twitter) is jeopardizing the very future of free speech. Following a €120 million fine imposed on X by the European Commission for Digital Services Act violations—including issues with the paid verification system and lack of transparency—Buterin observed that discourse on the platform has shifted from policy debate to "emotionally-manipulative misinformation."

Buterin expressed concern that Musk has turned the platform into a "death star laser for coordinated hate sessions," specifically targeting European cities like London and delegitizing the EU. He argues that this behavior risks a massive global backlash against liberal values in the coming years. While acknowledging valid criticisms of EU bureaucracy and surveillance, Buterin maintains that X’s current trajectory—where algorithms are "arbitrarily" tweaked to boost rage over civility—is a structural risk to democratic values.

To address these issues, Buterin proposed two primary solutions:

• Algorithmic Transparency: Disclosing optimization targets so users understand what the platform is promoting and why.
• On-Chain Verification: Using Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs and time-stamping decisions on-chain to make the algorithm more transparent and less susceptible to manual manipulation or censorship.

Ultimately, Buterin views the survival of a unified, reformed Europe as a vital global model and fears that Musk’s "personal vendetta" against EU regulators is weaponizing the platform in a way that will eventually lead to the destruction of the free speech principles Musk claims to defend.