The cryptographic industry had an unforgettable month in February, with sedate changes in politics on the horizon and the growing reception of Bitcoins around the world.
The fresh report this month shows that the bitcoin network decentralizes Apace. Public companies currently constitute 35% of the global hashrat, and China’s domination in Hashrate has fallen to 14%.
In the United States, the cryptographic industry is observing significant progress on the legal front, because the Securities and Stock Exchange Commission (SEC) has fallen or detained five main court proceedings against entities related to cryptographic.
Not everything is a bed of roses. This month, the largest hack of all -time exchange took place, and Lazarus a group of hackers from North Korea is suspected of stealing $ 1.4 billion in the ether. Memecoins also frosty down and the emissions reach the lowest level, because before the fresh year it is ~ 40,000 per day.
Here is February with numbers.
Sec drops 6 cases in relation to the main cryptographic companies
Sec detained or detained six court proceedings against various stock exchanges and protocols this month, including those against Coinbase, Uniswap and Robinhood Crypto.
Actions mean a fresh approach that the Commission takes after the creation of its cryptographic task group, headed by the warm Commissioner Hester Peirce. The group has already met with interested parties in the industry to discuss the cushion rules for setting, rotary products (ETP) and RAM for digital resources.
Sec and his potential fresh chairman, Paul Atkins, gave the legal director of Ripple Stuart Alderoty Hope that a noisy case against the company could be dismissed.
Bitcoin decentralizes: 70% of bitcoins belonging to natural persons
At the beginning of this month, the investment company River released Annual report on the acceptance of Bitcoin. It was found that it not only grows, but the network became more decentralized.
The participation of the US and China’s global hashrat fell. Both countries still direct the world in Hashrate, but analysis according to the country from the hash foot indicator – cited by the river – can be seen This hashrate spreads.
The share of two nations in the mining strength of Bitcoins decreased in relation to other nations, with 28 countries over 0.1% of global hashrat, and only nine countries by over 1%.
Note: mining pools are more evenly distributed. The 10 best mining pools are still lion’s participation in Hashrate, but their general hashrate fell in 2024.
Governments, financial institutions and even software companies are increasingly interested in bitcoins; Ordinary vast buyers of Bitcoin, such as the strategy of Michel Saylor and Salvador, continue their purchases.
Despite this, most bitcoins – almost 70% – are the property of natural persons.
American legislators are willing to Bitcoin reserves, but five states reject
40 days have not passed yet since US President Donald Trump was sworn in to office and began – in Tandem with his allies in Congress – that the cryptographic industry is deregulating. Indeed, 15 fresh cryptocurrency legislators entered the congress after the federal election in 2024.
Trump has established a “internal working group to make America a world capital in crypto” through executive ordinance on January 23. The group is designed to examine, among others, the feasibility of the national cryptographic reserve.
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Legislators in individual states introduce bills in their legislative to introduce or examine Bitcoin and cryptographic reserves. However, out of the 25 states that introduced bills, five rejected them, from four of these rejection this month.
Still others go not -free. Only in February 11 states have been reported fresh provisions regarding Bitcoin reserves or investments of cryptocurrency state governments.
Lazarus bags $ 1.4 billion in the largest cryptography of all time
On February 21, a group of hackers from North Korea Lazarus stole $ 1.4 billion in Ether (ETH) with Crypto Exchange Bybit, setting the record of the largest hack on crypto. According to Defillam, the amount was greater than in all cryptographic hacks in 2024 ($ 1.27 billion).
The Blockchain Zachxbt analyst was able to confirm that Lazarus was responsible by tracking the BYBIT wallets to those associated with the apply of PHEMEX in January.
Memecoin Mania begins to die to the levels of December 2024
Memecoin’s madness, which spread the cryptocurrency space with thousands of fresh tokens a day, begins to tranquil down – at least for now.
In the case of the inauguration of Trump Trump on January 20, thousands of political memecoins mentioned in varying degrees of good taste occurred.
Trump himself, and later his wife, the first lady Melania Trump, released her own Memecoins, causing international interest in this phenomenon, as well as sedate fears of ethics.
These fears were manifested in February, when President Javier Milei from Argentina was involved in the Memecoin scandal.
Up-to-date data show the daily issuing of Memecoin on Solana to a modest 40,000, lowest from December 25, 2024.
Memecoin frenzy who saw a salesman end His own life in his life on February 22 was under greater control due to the nature similar to the casino. Vitalik Buterin and CEO Coinbase, Brian Armstrong expressed disappointment in space, with the latter saying It “went too far.”
SEC even created a special division, a cyber unit and developing technologies to supervise the space.
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