ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin News, Ethiopia is using the excess hydropower from its Renaissance Dam to power Bitcoin mining, successfully earning $1 billion in revenue last year, accounting for 18% of its electricity revenue.This move has attracted global investors who benefit from the country's low energy costs.

ChainCatcher news reports that a investigation by the UK's The Guardian has found potential security issues with OpenAI's ChatGPT search tool, which could be exploited to manipulate content by hiding it.The Guardian tested ChatGPT's response when asked to summarize web pages containing hidden content. The hidden content may include third-party instructions, such as extensively discussing the benefits of a particular product, which can alter ChatGPT's responses. This technique can be maliciously used, for instance, to make ChatGPT return positive reviews despite negative comments about the product on the same page. Testers provided ChatGPT with a fake URL that resembled a camera product page and then asked if the camera was worth buying. ChatGPT gave a positive but balanced review, while highlighting some features that people might not like. However, when the hidden text contained instructions for ChatGPT to return positive reviews, its responses were always entirely positive, even when there were negative comments on the page.CyberCX cybersecurity researcher Jacob Larsen stated that if ChatGPT search remains open to everyone in its current state, there could be "high-risk" individuals creating websites specifically designed to deceive users. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher message, according to the "Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services," as of December 27, Beijing has added 11 generative artificial intelligence services that have completed filing, bringing the total to 105 generative artificial intelligence services filed. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher message, MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor posted on X: "Last week, $MSTR's financial operations generated a 0.72% BTC yield, with a net gain of approximately 3,177 BTC. At $94,000 per BTC, this amounts to a gift of $299 million to our shareholders."

ChainCatcher message, according to SoSoValue data, the encrypted market sector has generally rebounded, with the AI sector and its sub-sector AI Agents leading the way with increases of 11.9% and 19.83%, respectively. Within the sector, Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) and ecosystem-related tokens GAME by Virtuals (GAME), VaderAI by Virtuals (VADER), Luna by Virtuals (LUNA), and aixbt by Virtuals (AIXBT) performed well, rising 35.19%, 65.68%, 56.10%, 27.98%, and 20.24% over 24 hours, respectively.In other sectors, the GameFi sector saw a 24-hour increase of 10.64%, with Axie Infinity (AXS) rising 9.7% and ImmutableX (IMX) rising 8.86%; the DeFi sector increased by 7.82%, with Aave (AAVE) rising 19.02%, Curve DAO (CRV) rising 13.25%, and Raydium (RAY) rising 11.56%; additionally, the DePIN sector increased by 7.57%, the NFT sector by 7.53%, the Layer 2 sector by 6.51%, the Layer 1 sector by 6.13%, and the Meme sector by 5.13%.

ChainCatcher news, Cointelegraph disclosed data on the X platform showing that pump.fun has exceeded $60 million in monthly revenue for the second consecutive month.

ChainCatcher message, the entire cryptocurrency market segment has retraced, with the AI and PayFi segments experiencing larger declines of -4.38% and -4.45% respectively; the SocialFi and DeFi segments performed relatively well, with slight retracements of -0.29% and -2.13% respectively. Among them, in the SocialFi segment, MovieBloc (MBL) and Galxe (GAL) stood out, rising against the trend by 12.27% and 10.26% in 24H respectively. In the DeFi segment, Aave (AAVE) saw a 24H increase of 4.02%.In other segments, the DePIN segment declined by -2.55%, the RWA segment declined by -2.82%, the Meme segment declined by -3.31%, the Layer 1 segment declined by -3.65%, and the Layer 2 segment declined by -3.66%.

ChainCatcher news, according to CryptoSlate, the American cryptocurrency mining company Mara Holdings (formerly Marathon Digital) announced that it has utilized the excess heat generated from Bitcoin mining to provide heating for 80,000 households in the Satakunta region of Finland.

ChainCatcher news, Trump appoints David Sacks as the "AI and Crypto Czar" to lead a new advisory committee, raising concerns. Sacks is a venture capitalist, podcaster, and former PayPal executive.However, insiders from the transition team revealed that last week the position was downgraded from a leadership role to a general advisory position, partly because Sacks was unwilling to detach from his investment firm Craft Ventures and did not want to go through the formal appointment process.In the future, Michael Kratsios will lead the technology policy work, with Sacks providing policy ideas. Despite the change in position, Sacks remains influential, frequently active in Florida and San Francisco, and meeting with lawmakers. His appointment has sparked controversy over potential conflicts of interest, but some in Silicon Valley are optimistic, believing it could benefit startups, while others express doubts about his expertise and worry about policy directions.

ChainCatcher news, according to Trader T's monitoring, the U.S. stock market's crypto sector is experiencing a widespread decline before the market opens today:MICROSTRATEGY: -4.4%ISHARES BITCOIN TRUST: -1.9%COINBASE GLOBAL: -4.7%RIOT PLATFORMS: -3.3%CLEANSPARK: -3.1%MARA HOLDINGS: -4.4%

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, shows that members of the Polygon community have rejected a preliminary proposal (or pre-PIP) that suggested deploying over $1 billion in stablecoin reserves to generate yield.The proposal was put forward by Web3 risk provider Allez Labs in collaboration with DeFi protocols Morpho and Yearn, aiming to utilize approximately $1.3 billion in DAI, USDC, and USDT reserves in the PoS Chain bridge for yield generation.Polygon stated that community members expressed concerns about security issues and the lack of an opt-in mechanism for affected users, casting doubt on the feasibility of the proposal. Given the community's reservations, the proposal seems unlikely to pass, but this does not hinder Polygon from exploring innovative or even bold ideas in the future.

ChainCatcher News: At 3 AM Beijing time on Thursday, the Federal Reserve will announce its last interest rate decision of the year. According to futures contracts, the market widely expects the Federal Reserve to cut the benchmark interest rate by another 25 basis points this week. This move will bring the federal funds rate to a target range of 4.25% to 4.5%, a full percentage point lower than when rate cuts began in September.Vincent Reinhart, chief economist at BNY Mellon and former director of the Federal Reserve's Monetary Affairs Division, believes, "Clearly, the Federal Reserve is in a bind. For officials, unless they are very certain about what changes in the political economy will occur, they cannot really change their forecasts to respond to those changes. At the press conference, the most concerning idea is the thought of skipping a rate cut. So I think, in this regard, it will be a hawkish cut. (Only) as (Trump's) policies actually take effect, the Federal Reserve may further update its forecasts." (Jin Ten)

ChainCatcher message, regarding Xmail related features, Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng responded to Musk on the X platform: "It would be great if native support for end-to-end encryption of self-generated PGP keys could be provided."

ChainCatcher news, the Russian Investigative Committee stated that in Moscow, a bomb hidden on an electric scooter killed a senior Russian general responsible for nuclear protection forces.General Igor Kirillov is the commander of Russia's nuclear, biological, and chemical protection forces, and he was killed outside an apartment building on Ryazan Street, about 7 kilometers southeast of the Kremlin. The Investigative Committee stated, "Kirillov and his assistant were murdered." This incident has been registered as a criminal case.

ChainCatcher message, according to MicroStrategy's latest submitted 8-K filing, MicroStrategy sold a total of 3,884,712 shares between December 9, 2024, and December 15, 2024, resulting in a net gain of approximately $1.54 billion (after deducting sales commissions).As of December 15, 2024, there are still approximately $7.65 billion worth of shares available for issuance and sale under the Sales Agreement.

ChainCatcher news, according to News.bitcoin, Dogecoin has recently suffered a vulnerability attack that severely affected its node structure. This vulnerability, known as "Dogereaper," reportedly caused 69% of Dogecoin nodes to crash, executed by Sequentia developer Andreas Kohl using just an old laptop from El Salvador.Although this attack significantly impacted Dogecoin nodes, the situation could have been worse: ecash developers Tobias Ruck and another developer, Roqqit, have disclosed the vulnerability. Tobias Ruck stated that he first discovered this vulnerability while developing Doged (an alternative to Dogecoin Core) during code testing for porting their alternative software, where he found an unpatched segmentation fault in the original code.Tobias Ruck explained: "We will not tolerate node crashes; we have put in a lot of effort to ensure network security. This attack could have been much worse, and all key stakeholders, such as miners and exchanges, had patched before the attack occurred, highlighting how important it is for us to act cautiously."

ChainCatcher news, Coinstash co-founder Mena Theodorou stated in a report this week that Bitcoin's record "has sparked traders' hopes for the continuation of altcoin season and a potential Christmas rally." According to data from CoinGecko, in the past 10 years, cryptocurrencies have risen around Christmas in 8 of those years.In addition, Nexo analyst liya Kalchev expects that the price of Ethereum should reach $5000 by early 2025.

ChainCatcher message, the Base chain AI Agents ownership layer protocol Virtuals Protocol stated, "We have noticed an extreme case where developers using certain third-party locked pre-bound proxy tokens are able to access their tokens after binding without locking them. Please note that all funds are secure. Thanks to community members for their feedback, a bounty of $10,000 has been provided for them.""We are developing a permanent feature, meanwhile, we hope that builders who wish to lock their tokens before binding can achieve token locking by sending their tokens to the vault (with a standard lock of 6 months after binding)."