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- Lagos-based AUATON launched a N150,000 LED car roof ad board to generate income for drivers via digital ads. - The device targets Lagos commuters, offering businesses a novel advertising channel while monetizing vehicle space. - Priced for affordability, it aligns with Africa's tech trends but faces challenges like maintenance costs and adoption rates. - Launched via CoinMarketCap's community platform, the initiative highlights decentralized innovation yet lacks formal regulatory clarity.
- Ethereum developers are advancing a ZK protocol inspired by Secret Santa to enhance on-chain privacy, addressing transparency challenges. - The protocol uses zero-knowledge proofs and relayers to anonymize transactions, solving address visibility, randomness gaps, and Sybil attack risks. - Applications include anonymous DAO voting and private token distributions, balancing regulatory demands like EU's 2025/2263 data-sharing rules. - Vitalik Buterin warns of surveillance risks without privacy upgrades, wh
- Bitcoin fell below $84,000 on Dec 1, 2025, driven by macroeconomic pressures, thin liquidity, Japan's rate hike, and potential institutional divestments. - Derivatives liquidations ($250M on Binance) and $700M drop in Bitcoin futures open interest signaled capitulation amid overleveraged positions. - Glassnode identified $80,000 as a critical support zone, while spot ETFs saw $70M inflows after four weeks of outflows, contrasting crypto's risk-off mood with record Black Friday sales. - Analysts highlight
- New York State's $9.8M FAST NY Grant is transforming a 300-acre Xerox brownfield in Webster into a $1B industrial hub with multimodal connectivity. - The project includes road upgrades, sewer systems, and private-sector investments like a $650M dairy facility, creating 250 jobs and reducing industrial vacancy to 2%. - Webster's infrastructure-driven revival has boosted residential property values by 10.1%, positioning upstate NY as a competitive alternative to coastal manufacturing hubs. - The shovel-rea
- 15:49The US Dollar Index (DXY) has pulled back in the short term and is now at 99.38.According to ChainCatcher, citing Golden Ten Data, the US Dollar Index (DXY) has dropped by more than ten points in the short term and is currently at 99.38.
- 15:43"Big Short" Michael Burry: Bitcoin is the "tulip bulb" of our era and has no valueBlockBeats News, December 2, according to businessinsider, Michael Burry, the prototype of the movie "The Big Short" and a well-known investor, referred to bitcoin as "the tulip bulb of our time" in a podcast hosted by Michael Lewis, the author of "The Big Short," which aired on Tuesday, alluding to the tulip market crash in the 1600s caused by speculative bubbles. Burry said: "I think bitcoin reaching $100,000 is the most ridiculous thing." He described this cryptocurrency as "worthless." Burry also told Lewis: "Bitcoin is even worse than tulip bulbs because it has fueled the deep development of a lot of criminal activity."
- 15:43The "new 100% win rate trader" shorted 500 BTC with 40x leverage.BlockBeats News, December 2, according to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain trader is currently maintaining a 100% win rate. In the past 11 days, the trader has completed 9 trades, earning a profit of $2.12 million. Currently, the trader is shorting 500 bitcoin (approximately $43.88 million) with 40x leverage, with a liquidation price of $93,392.53.