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A wallet linked to Bitcoin's earliest days is back in the spotlight — and this time, it's got legal papers. A Satoshi-era address holding coins worth roughly two hundred eighty five billion dollars received a formal notice through Bitcoin's OP_RETURN field, demanding the owner prove they're alive and in control by November fifth of this year. It's a fascinating collision of old cryptography and modern law.
Shifting to the world of prediction markets, quantitative trading firms are quietly flooding into platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi — and not because they're gambling on election outcomes. These firms are hunting for pricing inefficiencies, treating prediction markets the way they'd treat any other financial instrument. It signals a genuine maturation of a space that was once considered a curiosity.
And in a move that will be watched closely across Europe, Greece is preparing to tax gains from cryptocurrency, according to sources cited by Reuters. The details are still emerging, but the direction is clear — governments are increasingly unwilling to let digital asset profits sit outside the reach of tax authorities. Greece joins a growing list of nations tightening the rules around crypto wealth.
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