•Japan proceeds to recategorize cryptocurrency and implement significant tax breaks
•Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy adds 8,178 BTC for $836M, total now 649,870
•SOL Strategies set to offer staking solutions for VanEck's Solana exchange-traded fund
•Vitalik Buterin reveals Kohaku, a privacy-oriented structure for Ethereum network
•Bitcoin miner HIVE announces 'record' earnings as BTC output surges
•Bitcoin's extracted supply surpasses 95% of 21 million limit with over a century of mining remaining
