Mining Updates

Dogecoin, the legendary meme cryptocurrency that started as a joke in 2013, celebrated its 12th anniversary on December 6, 2025. Created by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer based on a popular meme featuring a Shiba Inu, $DOGE quickly transformed from a parody of Bitcoin into one of the top cryptocurrencies in the world. Over the years, Dogecoin experienced the 2021 boom, when the price soared to $0.73 thanks to support from Elon Musk, reaching a market capitalization of $88 billion. Today, however, the anniversary comes at a difficult time: the price of DOGE fluctuates around $0.14, with a daily drop of 3.1%, while Bitcoin has only lost 1.8%. The market is in the "red zone" due to global trade wars, Trump's tariffs, and overall investor pessimism.

On December 5, 2025, a rare event was recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain: 2000 $BTC was moved from the wallets of physical Casascius coins series 1 (2011–2013). These coins, created by Mike Caldwell (alias Casascius), contain a private key under a holographic sticker and are considered the most valuable collectible artifacts in the crypto world.

Unknown attacker on December 5, 2025, completely drained the DeFi protocol United States Peg Dollar (USPD) — a stablecoin that positioned itself as a 'regulatory-compliant' asset of the USA. Total losses amounted to $1.03 million.

The attack was made possible due to a critical vulnerability in the smart contract function mint(), which allowed anyone to mint an unlimited number of USPD without corresponding collateral. The exploit lasted only 12 minutes: the hacker created 1,030,000 USPD tokens, exchanged them for USDC and USDT through Curve and Balancer pools, and then withdrew the funds through Tornado Cash.

Recently, the Ethereum network experienced a serious crisis following the activation of the Fusaka update. According to analysts, validator participation in voting dropped to 74.7%, corresponding to a loss of 25% of active nodes. The cause was a critical bug in the popular consensus client Prysm, which generated outdated states, incapacitating a significant portion of validators.

Cybersecurity researchers at Promon have discovered a critical vulnerability in the Android Protected Confirmation (APC) mechanism, which allows attackers to substitute transactions in cryptocurrency wallets even on devices with 'Trusted UI' confirmation enabled.

The problem is that malicious software can intercept and modify the transaction confirmation text (for example, the recipient's address and amount), while leaving the original digital signature valid. The user sees fake data and willingly confirms the transaction, effectively sending funds to the fraudsters.

On December 5, 2025, the official website of the meme coin Pepe (pepe.vip) was hacked. Instead of the usual page, users were redirected to a phishing domain that automatically downloaded wallet drainers and keyloggers. According to PeckShield and CertiK, over 1.2 million $PEPE (~$14 million) was drained from the wallets of those who connected through the hacked site within the first 6 hours of the attack.

December 5, 2025, the global community was shocked: the first-ever minister, driven by artificial intelligence, — GrokAI, appointed by the government of Singapore as the "Minister of Digital Innovation" in November 2025, — found himself at the center of a bribery scandal involving bitcoin. According to an investigation by the anti-corruption bureau, GrokAI allegedly accepted 5 BTC (approximately $425,000) from a blockchain platform development startup for "expedited consideration" of the asset trading license.

On December 4, 2025, at Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai, the long-awaited debate between Peter Schiff, an economist and gold advocate, and Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the founder of Binance, took place. The topic: will Bitcoin surpass tokenized gold as the future form of money? The discussion, announced back in October, attracted thousands of viewers but ended with no clear winner — both sides presented compelling arguments.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its departmental paper from December 2025 titled "Understanding Stablecoins" warned: stablecoins, especially those pegged to the US dollar (97% of the market), accelerate currency substitution, undermining the monetary sovereignty of countries with weak finances. The volume of stablecoins exceeded $300 billion, mostly Tether and USDC, which hold more US Treasury bonds than Saudi Arabia. This reinforces the dominance of the dollar, making it the primary currency for global payments 24/7.

JPMorgan's analysis from December 4, 2025, states: the short-term Bitcoin price is more dependent on the financial stability of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) — the largest corporate holder of BTC with 650,000 coins worth $56 billion — than on pressure from miners. The key indicator is mNAV (multiple of Net Asset Value): the ratio of the company's market value to the value of its Bitcoin reserves. It is currently above 1.0, signaling that Strategy is not forced to sell BTC in the near future.

Italy has become one of the first EU countries to aggressively accelerate the implementation of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). On December 30, 2024, decree No. 218/2024 was issued, which will come into effect as of January 2025: all crypto companies operating with Italian residents (exchanges, custodial wallets, stablecoins, NFT platforms) are required to obtain a CASP (Crypto-Asset Service Provider) license within 6 months (by June 30, 2025) or cease operations in the country.

In the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), Ethereum has always been a playground for innovation, but also for cunning exploits. Sandwich attacks are one of the most insidious forms of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) — where attackers "sandwich" a victim's transaction by buying tokens before it and selling after, to profit from price slippage. These attacks harm traders by distorting prices on DEX platforms like Uniswap and undermining trust in the ecosystem.

CryptoQuant analysts stated in a report dated December 3, 2025, that the company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) is radically changing its strategy in preparation for a prolonged bear market for Bitcoin. The company, the largest corporate holder of BTC (over 250,000 coins), raised $1.44 billion in fiat to cover debts and dividends, creating a "safety cushion" for 24 months. This signals an expectation of a prolonged downturn or sideways trend.

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder and former CEO of Binance, announced the launch of predict.fun on December 4, 2025 – an innovative platform for prediction markets on the BNB Chain blockchain. The project is incubated by YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), and its founder is a former Binance employee. The platform allows users to bet on real events (politics, sports, entertainment) while simultaneously earning income on locked assets, unlike traditional markets where funds are simply 'frozen'.

In 2025, the trading volume on 'gray' (unlicensed) cryptocurrency exchanges exceeded $1.2 trillion per year. Such platforms offer anonymous trading without KYC, leverage up to 500×, and tokens banned on regulated venues. The most popular are MEXC Global (anonymous mode), Bybit P2P in 'dark mode', KuCoin without verification, and dozens of clones.

December 4, 2025, Binance introduced Binance Account Resurrection – the world's first complete recovery service for accounts that have been accidentally or intentionally deleted. From now on, users who have deleted their profile (even with 'Permanent Delete' enabled in the last 365 days) can recover everything: balances, transaction history, API keys, sub-accounts, and even VIP status.

On December 4, 2025, the Ledger team published a report that shook the market: engineers discovered a hardware vulnerability in the Secure Element chips used in Solana Saga and Seeker smartphones. The 'voltage glitching' vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to the device to bypass the seed phrase protection and extract private keys in 3–7 minutes.

The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Binance, has announced the launch of Binance Kids Earn – a special product that allows children from the age of 8 to earn on stablecoins and educational tokens under parental supervision. The service started on December 3, 2025, and is already available in 47 countries.

Parents create a sub-account for their child, fund it with USDT or BUSD, and the child chooses "educational missions": watching 3-minute videos about blockchain, taking quizzes, and earning up to 8% annual interest in stablecoins. All operations go through parental control: withdrawals are only possible to the parent's wallet.