Lagarde insists NO 🇪🇺 European Central Bank will hold Bitcoin in its reserves.
Meanwhile, the 🇨🇿 Czech National Bank is actively exploring the possibility RIGHT NOW.
The Greatest Cyber Criminal You’ve Never Heard Of: Park Jin Hyok
A key player in🇰🇵 Lazarus Group, Park is behind some of the most devastating hacks of the past decade. Here’s the damage:
Hacks and Money Stolen
Sony Pictures Hack (2014): No money was stolen, but Sony was severely compromised.
Bangladesh Central Bank Hack (2016): He stole $81M via fraudulent SWIFT transfers.
WannaCry Attack (2017): He collected over $140K in global ransom payments.
Bybit Hack (2025): $1.46B stolen from the exchange.
Dave Birnbaum of @Coinbits explains how Bitcoin protects wealth in times of political turmoil - offering an unseizable, portable alternative to traditional assets.
JUST IN: 🇰🇵 North Korea’s Lazarus Group is moving stolen ETH from ByBit to Chainflip to convert to BTC.
Chainflip says it has limited some frontend services but can’t fully block transactions as a decentralized protocol.
Over $1.1M in ETH has already been converted.
COINDESK: A source claims the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) manages seized Bitcoin using Excel spreadsheets—tracked with individual keystrokes.
The agency allegedly shares BTC deposit addresses via unencrypted email, struggles with tracking errors, and can’t confirm its total Bitcoin holdings.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett claims that distributing $5,000 DOGE checks to Americans wouldn’t be inflationary because “people would save it.”
FBI DIRECTOR KASH PATEL: “The Federal Reserve is not a public government entity, it’s a private entity…manipulating currency to their advantage and that needs to be tackled.”
