MINE.exchange has gathered the latest Web3 news from the past week that you might have missed.
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The European Central Bank will reconsider its relationship with any national central bank that adds Bitcoin to its reserves, according to ECB board member Piero Cipollone.
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Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) stated that the process of listing assets on the exchange is inefficient. According to him, new tokens are announced just hours before they are added, leading to sharp price surges on decentralized exchanges (DEX). After being listed on centralized exchanges (CEX), traders begin mass-selling the assets.
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Elon Musk, along with a group of investors, including xAI and Baron Capital Group, offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion but was rejected.
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British citizen James Howells has been trying to recover a hard drive containing 7,500 BTC (≈$738 million) since 2013, which he accidentally threw away in a landfill in Newport. However, authorities denied him access to the site, and now they plan to close it altogether in 2025–2026 to build a solar power plant.
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In Q4 2024, Goldman Sachs invested approximately $1.5 billion in shares of two spot Bitcoin ETFs. This is confirmed by the 13-F form submitted to the SEC.
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The US and UK refused to sign the final statement of the AI summit held in France. The document aimed at ethical and safe technology development was deemed too restrictive by both countries.
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Six armed criminals broke into a home with a child and their nanny, pretending to be accident victims near the garage. The perpetrators abducted the victims in a van, held them in rented houses, and demanded ransom in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies, threatening to kill them.
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are in talks about joint regulation of the cryptocurrency market.
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In January 2025, blockchain gaming saw explosive growth—the number of unique active wallets (UAW) reached 7 million per day, a 386% increase compared to the previous year, according to a DappRadar report.
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