Greetings to all Gate users who have a wonderful trading year with a great exchange. May we all have big profits.

Brazil ordered the Worldcoin cryptocurrency project to stop scanning the irises of Brazilians. The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) formally applied a preventive measure to the Tools For Humanity (TFH) company, the developer of the project, and forced it to suspend the payment of tokens in exchange for scanning the irises of Brazilians.
The order seeks to suspend the offer of cryptocurrencies or any other financial compensation for the collection of iris from interested parties in Brazil. This measure is based on a concern about the treatment of personal data, which the ANPD considers

bitcoin and DeepSeek share something in common: they are technologies that use open source code and collaborative development. They also share another trait, a controversial one: they are disruptive technologies that improve upon the preceding ones. They even surpass them when they are privatized by large technology companies or entities with access to almost infinite financing.
As far as DeepSeek is concerned, its language model can be run locally. That is, its open-source software is licensed by the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and can be downloaded, installed, and operated di

happy new year 2025

I wish you a happy 2025 full of profits

This year 2024 is closing with many surprises in the market, with the resurgence of many coins and of course the king BTC surpassing 100k. I hope that next year 2025 the market will give us many more joys and our profits will be much greater together with gate.
‍ #Gateio20MillionCelebration# .

Ripple's XRP started December by reaching a new high in the last 7 years, surpassing USD 2. It was the top 10 cryptocurrency by market capitalization with the best performance, quadrupling its price in less than a month. This increase allowed XRP to surpass BNB and Solana in market capitalization and is now in the top 4.
But what is mainly driving this rise? Although the main one is the drag effect generated by bitcoin over the last month for all altcoins, the possible outcome of the legal dispute that Ripple, the issuer of XRP, faces with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (

President-elect Donald Trump, who will assume power on January 20, 2025, issued a warning to the BRICS, stating that during his term, the United States will not stand idly by as other countries attempt to replace the dollar.
Through his account in X, Trump warned that he would impose tariffs of up to 100% on products from all countries that create or support a new coin intended to replace the "mighty dollar". In addition, he claimed that those countries should say goodbye to sales to the "wonderful American economy".
Trump made it clear that he will not accept any kind of competitor in the glo

With the signature of President Luis Lacalle Pou, Bill 20,345 to regulate bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies was enacted in Uruguay, placing the South American country on the list of the few nations in the region that has a specific legal framework for this ecosystem.
In this way, the new law of Uruguay adds to the specific regulations for the industry of the criptocoins. Until now, these have been approved in countries such as Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, and El Salvador, the latter being the most advanced in regulatory matters in the region for having the most comprehensive legal fram

In the midst of a market revival, which has led to stablecoin market cap reaching USD 164 million, organizations like the bank for international settlements (BIS) are focusing on how to supervise the sector.
In an announcement made on July 31st, the BIS has launched a project that allows real-time tracking of stablecoin reserves.
The idea is to exercise greater control over the cryptocurrency sector, with special interest in the assets that back stablecoins, which remain a controversial sector in the industry. And for this, they are working on the development of Pyxtrial, 'a prototype analysis

Cryptocurrency users wagered over $3.5 million on the forecast of the elections in Venezuela held last Sunday, July 28th. With this goal, they turned to Polymarket, a prediction market built on the Polygon network that has gained great popularity recently.
In such a way that the cryptocurrency-powered betting platform gave a favorable forecast to Nicolás Maduro, who was seeking re-election to lead the government of Venezuela. So, bettors expressed that the victory would be in favor of the incumbent candidate and representative of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), with an 85% prob

Donald Trump is drawing attention for his recent fervent interest in bitcoin (BTC), after years of showing repudiation. With this change, once again history demonstrates that not always the big influencers are right, even when it comes to investments.
It is crucial to take into account this case to avoid bad moves in the world of investments. It is enough to calculate how much money could have been earned by buying bitcoin when Trump dismissed the coin to make it clear.
Just five years ago, in July 2019, Trump said, “I am not a fan of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which are not money and

The stablecoin with a 1:1 peg to the Colombian peso, COPW, issued by Wenia, which is the cryptocurrency arm of Grupo Bancolombia, is now a "more transparent" asset, after it received the backstop from the company Chainlink.
According to an announcement released on Thursday, July 25th, Wenia began operating using Chainlink Proof of Reserve (PoR), one of the company's products, "to provide end-to-end transparency to the Colombian peso reserves that back COPW".
This indicates that COPW users now have access to the Stable Cryptocurrency Reserve Proof. This information is available on the Chainlink

After the approval of the Bitcoin Law, El Salvador became the Latin American country with the most bitcoin (BTC) ATMs. A leadership that has not been lost so far, but is facing increasing competition. 
According to the data provided by the CoinATMRadar monitoring and tracking service, only two countries in the region are close to El Salvador in the installation of bitcoin ATMs: Puerto Rico and Mexico. Among them, Mexico stands out for being one of the countries that has made the most progress in adoption.
The figures indicate that, to date, the number of ATMs in Mexico is estimated at around 8

The German government recently lost an additional USD 124 million in Bitcoin gain
The price of Bitcoin rose just after Germany's sale
On July 13, the state of Saxony in Germany completed the sale of the 50,000 BTC reserve that had been confiscated from the movie piracy site, movie2k, generating around USD 2.87 billion. In doing so, they secured a profit of over USD 740 million compared to their acquisition cost of USD 2.13 billion in January.
However, just after its sale, Bitcoin prices surged by up to 16.55%, driven by the assassination attempt on former United States President Donald Trump,

Grayscale, a cryptocurrency investment vehicles management company, has announced the launch of a new fund focused on decentralized artificial intelligence (AI).
The product, called Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund, seeks to provide investors with exposure to protocols in the artificial intelligence sector within the cryptoassets ecosystem.
The company, which owns the second largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) in bitcoin (BTC), sees AI in an early stage of development. That's why they considered it appropriate to launch an instrument with exposure to this sector. "The rise of disruptive technolo

Worldcoin is an identity verification protocol through the scanning of biometric data. Those who voluntarily undergo an iris scan are periodically given a 'basic income' which is paid in the WLD token.
Although most of these tokens go to those who verified their identity in the protocol, a certain portion is intended for team developers and early investors. These tokens have not yet been released.
Today, July 16th, the Worldcoin organization announced a change regarding this portion of WLD tokens:
"Starting from July 24, 2024, the WLD tokens allocated to investors and team members of Tools for

Investment fund specialist and Bloomberg Intelligence researcher Eric Balchunas revealed that, according to his sources, ether (ETH) ETFs will be launched on Tuesday, July 23 in the United States.
Thus, Balchunas confirmed the words of Nate Geraci, president of the ETF Store company, who had reported on dialogues between the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and companies that are requesting authorization to launch these investment funds.
Anticipating that things may not go as expected, Balchunas adds, «Of course, this does not imply unforeseen last-minute problems!».
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