Results of the day, December 29 🇷🇺

- The Central Bank of the Russian Federation expanded the list of signs of fraudulent card transactions.
- The line to stake Ethereum for the first time in six months was twice as long as the line to exit: 746,000 ETH waiting to stake vs 361,000 ETH waiting to exit.
- The Keine exchange service (operating since 2011) launched consultations and training on launching crypto exchanges.
- Bitcoin forecasts for 2026 vary widely: some predict a drop to $10,000–25,000, others see $150,000–$250,000.
- Strategy bought 1,229 BTC last week at $88,568 per BTC.
- The Central Bank of Kazakhstan approved several digital-asset pilots: tokenizing gold reserves, crypto payments via QR codes, and a national stablecoin.
- Silver hit a new all-time high at $82.
- Bitmain sharply cut prices on some ASIC miners as the mining economy worsens: near-record network hashrate, a falling BTC price, reduced miners’ profitability, and softer demand for new equipment.
- Mike Novogratz says Ripple and Cardano risk losing relevance if they can’t demonstrate real utility.
- From January 1, 2026, China will allow banks to pay interest on the digital yuan (CBDC) to boost adoption.
- Analysts summarize Russia’s industrial mining market results for 2025.
- Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that by 2026 AI could replace many professions, triggering unemployment.
- A German–US study shows large AI models are biased toward dialect speakers, attributing negative stereotypes and responding more rudely or condescendingly.
- Only about 30% of 1,730,000 Polymarket trading addresses were profitable. Meanwhile, almost all profits are concentrated in a tiny group—just 0.04% of addresses provided more than 70% of the total profit ($3.7 billion).