💵 The symbol with the letter B and vertical strokes appeared long before Bitcoin — it was used in the game Space Quest IV, released in 1991, as a designation for an in-game currency called Buckazoids.

👹👹 In 2025, hackers stole $3.4 billion worth of cryptocurrency — nearly 70% of all losses came from the three largest incidents, including the $1.5 billion hack of the Bybit exchange.

The main threat remains hackers from North Korea, who stole $2 billion over the year — since 2022, their total haul has reached $6.75 billion.

💵 Approximately 461,000 transactions worth $10–15 billion pass through the Bitcoin network daily.

📱 Chainalysis: in 2025 hackers stole more than $3 billion in cryptocurrency.

The annual report by blockchain analysts at Chainalysis showed that over the past year criminals stole $3.41 billion in cryptocurrency.

🎅 Investors are now actively driving the "Santa Claus Rally" topic.

The "Santa Claus Rally" is an upward trend traditionally observed in the stock market at Christmas (the last 5 trading days of the year + the first 5 trading days of the new year).

🌏 TOP-15 crypto countries

Current statistics on the number of Bitcoin holders in 2025.

🇮🇳 India: 93 million
🇺🇸 USA: 46 million
🇨🇳 China: 41 million
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 18 million
🇮🇩 Vietnam: 17 million
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 14 million
🇹🇷 Turkey: 12 million
🇵🇭 Philippines: 10 million
🇧🇷 Brazil: 9 million
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 7 million
🇲🇽 Mexico: 7 million
🇦🇷 Argentina: 7 million
🇿🇦 South Africa: 6 million
🇹🇭 Thailand: 5 million
🇷🇺 Russia: 5 million

🇺🇸 In the Christmas Powerball draw in the United States, the $1.817 billion jackpot was won — the winner matched all six numbers.

Now the winner can choose a lump-sum payment of about $835 million or receive the money in installments over 30 years.

📊 In 2025, Bitcoin fully decoupled from gold, silver, and the stock market.

💵 Bitcoin celebrates its 17th anniversary today 🎉

🤖 OpenAI paid each employee a New Year bonus in company shares — on average $1,500,000 per person.

These are the largest bonuses among big tech companies in history.

🎬 Unique video

Changpeng Zhao (CZ) shows the first Binance office and the interface of the future exchange, and also invites viewers to take part in the upcoming ICO.

The video was recorded in 2017, at the Binance office, with around 55 employees.

🪙 CZ: American banks bought BTC while the market panicked

Changpeng Zhao, founder of Binance, stated that amid panic selling by retail investors, American banks and major players were actively accumulating Bitcoin.