Crypto Daily Highlights - August 4, 2025

🕵️ Satoshi Statue Found Underwater

By DIN
Aug 14, 2025, 3:35 PM
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Three major developments in crypto today:

  • Satoshi Statue Recovery: The iconic Satoshi Nakamoto statue in Lugano was found in Lake Lugano, though damaged from apparent vandalism.​

  • Traditional Finance Embraces Blockchain: Banks made 345 blockchain investments (2020-2024), with Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and SBI Group leading.​ Focus areas include tokenization, custody, and payments.​

  • Historic Hack Revealed: Arkham Intelligence uncovered a 2020 LuBian mining pool hack of 127,426 BTC ($14.​5B current value), executed through a brute-force attack on weak private keys.​

Context: ETF outflows continue, with Bitcoin ETFs seeing $812M withdrawn.​ Gate.​io has launched US spot trading.​

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Crypto Daily Highlights – Aug 4, 2025 ✅ Satoshi Nakamoto Statue Recovered The iconic statue in Lugano, Switzerland, was found broken after being stolen and dumped in Lake Lugano. ✅ TradFi Invested Heavily in Blockchain Between 2020–2024, banks made 345 blockchain investments,

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📰 Crypto Daily Recap – Aug 3, 2025 Arkham Intelligence claims to have uncovered the largest crypto hack in history — a 2020 attack on the LuBian mining pool, where 127,426 BTC ($14.5B today) was stolen. Spot Bitcoin ETFs suffered $812M in outflows, the second-largest

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