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This Week on Crypto Twitter: Bitcoin Runes Mania and More Ethereum Legal Drama

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Crypto Twitter this week was dominated by the industry’s hottest new topic, Bitcoin Runes – plus a hot helping of legal drama in the form of a pre-emptive lawsuit filed by software giant Ethereum against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Since the last launch of Bitcoin reduce by halfRunes — a new Bitcoin-based protocol which can support fungible tokens like meme coins – has grown in popularity. DOG, a new Runas meme token, was thrown into the air on Wednesday to the holders of the Runestones Ordinal project. Distribution to tens of thousands of wallets immediately made DOG the most popular Runes token ever created.
Rune fever took over the cryptosphere this week as activity on the protocol quickly increased to master the entire Bitcoin network.
Some crypto users lamented the thorn in Bitcoin network fees caused by the Rune frenzy. But other proponents of the protocol remained steadfast in the conviction that the excitement surrounding the new class of tokens was just beginning.
On Ethereum, optimistic news was found this week in the multimillion-dollar sale of yet another CryptoPunk NFT. Punk #635, an ultra-rare Alien Punk, sold on Thursday for $12.38 million to an anonymous collector.
The sale marked the third occasion in weeks that an Alien Punk has changed hands for more than $11 million.
However, it wasn’t all smiles for everyone in the Ethereum NFT ecosystem. On Friday, Yuga Labs, the multibillion-dollar company behind the once-dominant NFT collection Bored Monkey Yacht Club, laid off an undisclosed number of employees. In a message to employees, the company’s CEO and co-founder, Greg Solano, admitted that the company had “lost its way”.
The biggest bombshell of the week, however, came on Thursday when Ethereum software giant Consensys revealed in a proactive process against the SEC that the federal regulator is allegedly trying to sue the company and potentially declare Ethereum as a security in the process.
Industry leaders immediately took to Twitter to vocal support the lawsuit, chastising the SEC for potentially trying to effectively ban Ethereum after several other US government entities indicated that ETH does not fall within the SEC’s jurisdiction.
Hayden Adams, founder of decentralized exchange (DES) Uniswap likened the lawsuit to a rallying cry for the crypto industry to finally take an aggressive and collective stance against the SEC in a Lord of the Rings– weird battle. Uniswap revealed earlier this month that it is also being sued by the SEC for alleged securities violations.
Disclosure: ConsenSys Mesh is one of Decrypt’s 22 investors. Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
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‘This is huge’ — Billionaire Mark Cuban issues ‘incredible’ Bitcoin and crypto prediction amid price slump

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came back with a vengeance this year when former President Donald Trump Cryptocurrency boosts US presidential election in November with ‘revolutionary’ plan.
The price of bitcoin has surged to more than its all-time high in recent months, surpassing $70,000 per bitcoin and triggering a wave of mega-optimistic predictions about the price of bitcointhough it fell again this week, falling below $65,000 after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady.
Now, as Elon Musk suddenly breaks his silence on bitcoin and cryptocurrenciesBillionaire investor Mark Cuban called a California plan to digitize 42 million car titles using blockchain an “incredible step forward” and “huge” for cryptocurrencies.
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Mark Cuban, famous Shark Tank investor and billionaire owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, has… [+] called a cryptocurrency update “amazing” amid bitcoin’s price slump.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain, it was reported by Reuters, through technology company Oxhead Alpha on the Avalanche blockchain and designed to detect fraud and facilitate the securities transfer process.
“This is an incredible development for crypto,” Cuban, best known as an investor on TV’s Shark Tank and owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, posted on X, joking that U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler could sue the state as part of his hostility toward cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
“The reason this is huge for crypto is because people who hold the tokens will have an app with an Avalanche wallet,” Cuban said. “Tens of millions of Californians having and using a crypto wallet in the next five years, or however long it takes, normalizes the use of wallets and crypto.”
John Wu, president of Avalanche developer Ava Labs, told Reuters that California’s DMV is “creating a wallet that you can download on your phone.”
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Bitcoin’s price has rallied this year, triggering a wave of bullish bitcoin price predictions from… [+] people like billionaire Mark Cuban.
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Last month, Cuban predicted that if the US dollar falls as the global reserve currency, bitcoin could become “a global ‘safe haven’” and a “global currency.” potentially sending the price of bitcoin to a much higher level.
According to Cuban, bitcoin could become what its most ardent supporters “envision” — a means “of protecting our economies… This is already happening in countries facing hyperinflation.”
The price of bitcoin has skyrocketed over the past year, largely due to the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, leading a bitcoin attack on Wall Street.
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MicroStrategy’s Cash Flow Amid Bitcoin Rally Raises Some Eyebrows

Analysts are starting to pay more attention than usual to Bitcoin-proxy’s underlying enterprise software business MicroStrategy Inc.
How to better invest cash generated from operations is what originally prompted co-founder and CEO Michael Saylor to turn to Bitcoin four years ago. Since then, the Tysons Corner, Va.-based company has adopted a two-pronged strategy of investing in the cryptocurrency instead of traditional assets like short-term Treasuries and ramping up its software operations.
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Large Bitcoin (BTC) Holders Added $5.4 Billion Worth of BTC in July, Data Shows

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Bitcoin (BTC) Hits Six-Week High After Trump’s Pro-Crypto Speech

Bitcoin has retreated from a six-week high as investors shift their focus to speculation the U.S. may sell seized tokens just days after Donald Trump vowed to create a government stockpile of the cryptocurrency if he is elected president again.
The US transferred $2 billion worth of Bitcoin to a new digital wallet address on Monday, blockchain research firm Arkham said in a publish on social media platform X. Market analysis firms have speculated that the tokens are from the Silk Road marketplace, where customers used virtual currencies to buy illegal drugs and hacking tools before it was shut down.
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