Hong Kong Police Disrupt Virtual Currency Money Laundering Case, Involved Funds Reach 230 Million Hong Kong Dollars

Coinbase will list OPINION (OPN) for spot trading, per an official announcement on March 5th. The OPN-USD trading pair will begin trading at 5:00 AM Pacific Time or later, provided liquidity conditions are met and trading is supported in your region.

On March 5, on-chain integrated trading platform Interstate closed a $1.5 million funding round, with backers including MH Ventures, Marshland Capital Group, Taisu Ventures, Bloccelerate VC, Alpen Capital, Alchemy and Legends Group.

On March 5th, The Data Nerd reported that two Bitcoin whales collectively sent 775 BTC (worth approximately $56.3 million) to Binance over the past two hours.

On March 5th, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes said this morning that Bitcoin has not decoupled from U.S. SaaS tech firms—and this latest rebound may be a dead cat bounce. “We’re not out of the woods yet,” he noted. “Stay patient.” A dead cat bounce refers to a brief, sharp price rebound in a financial asset following a significant, prolonged decline. It’s merely an illusion: soon enough, prices resume falling and may hit new lows.

March 5th: According to LookOnChain monitoring, the Bitcoin OG wallet address "1QLASn" — inactive for 8 months — deposited 500 BTC to Binance 2 hours ago, with the assets valued at $36.39 million.

On Wednesday local time (March 5), Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI signed a non-binding "User Protection Commitment." The companies pledged to "self-build, procure or purchase" the energy needed to operate their data centers, ensuring related costs are not passed on to ordinary consumers to prevent U.S. residential electricity prices from rising. It remains unclear how the White House will ensure corporate compliance with the commitment. Former President Trump noted public concerns that data center construction could push up electricity prices, but he promised this would not occur. AI data center power demand has already outstripped existing supply in some U.S. regions. By 2028, data center electricity consumption is projected to make up 12% of total U.S. electricity use. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), residential electricity prices are expected to increase by 6% in 2025 and continue rising through 2027 and 2028.