NEW: 🇳🇴 Norway’s $1.9T sovereign wealth fund, managed by Norges Bank Investment Management, boosted its indirect Bitcoin exposure to 7,161 BTC in Q2 2025, up 192% from 2,446 BTC a year ago.

NEW: American Bitcoin Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Hut 8 Corp., has increased its holdings by 1,726 Bitcoin.

TOM LEE: "If you look at Bitcoin wallets, comparing it to the internet, we are back to the 1996 level."

Russian authorities identified over 8,000 illegal cryptocurrency miners in Irkutsk, Siberia.

NEW: "The only thing that Charlie Munger got wrong" was Bitcoin, says Kevin O’Leary.

YAHOO: Harvard University’s endowment has disclosed a $116.7M stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, a larger position than its holdings in Nvidia and Google parent Alphabet.

NEW: "Every week, there is a Bitcoiner, at least one in the world, who gets kidnapped, tortured, extorted, and even worse. We have seen cases of kidnappings for as little as $6K worth of crypto, and people murdered for $50K in crypto," says SatoshiLabs founder Alena Vranova.

NEW: 🇭🇰 Hong Kong-based Cango Inc. acquires a 50 MW mining facility in 🇺🇸 Georgia, USA, for $19.5M in cash.

The 29-year-old executive director of the White House Crypto Council says he’s going back to the private sector — but will work part-time in government as an adviser on artificial intelligence alongside AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks. https://bitcoinnews.com/legal/bo-hines-steps-down-digital-asset-adviser/