24/11/2025
❗️ News Review of the Week
🔹 Tether CEO calls Bitcoin the perfect form of money and admits USDT may be abandoned in the future
• Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said that in the long term, the need for the USDT stablecoin may disappear. According to him, USDT is only a temporary tool, a kind of ‘bridge’ for those who are not yet ready to switch to Bitcoin.
🔹 El Salvador bought $100 million worth of Bitcoin in one day, taking advantage of the price drop
• When Bitcoin fell to $90,000, El Salvador's National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) purchased 1,000 coins at once. Together with the daily purchase of another 1 BTC, 1,090 Bitcoins worth $100.4 million were added to the balance at approximately $92,000 per 1 BTC. El Salvador has been accumulating bitcoins since September 2021, when the cryptocurrency was recognised as an official means of payment in the country.
🔹Vitalik Buterin warned that elliptic curve cryptography could be broken by quantum computing before the 2028 US presidential election
• He called on Ethereum to upgrade to quantum-resistant cryptography within four years. He also stated that future innovation should shift towards Layer2, wallets and privacy tools, rather than the core protocol layer.
🔹 Miners have mined 95% of the total Bitcoin supply
• The volume of mined coins has exceeded 19.95 million BTC of Satoshi Nakamoto's programmed limit of 21 million. The emission slows down with each halving: after April 2024, the block reward decreased from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC, and now miners produce about 450 BTC per day instead of the previous 900. Although most of the coins are already in circulation, the last 5% will be mined slowly — until 2140.