ShieldWall: February Sees 20 Crypto Hacking Incidents, Resulting in Around $1.51 Billion in Losses

On March 1st, Musk commented on the phenomenon of Meme coins during an interview with Joe Rogan. He said, "People are merely engaged in a game of chicken and musical chairs. The one who sits down last will lose everything. If you think you can 'win' by relying on a Meme coin, that is just foolish. Don't put your life savings into a Meme coin. If you just want to have some fun, you can play with Meme coins casually."

On March 1st, the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, posted a message saying, "It is absurd to be sentenced to life in prison for non-violent tax crimes." The case against "Bitcoin Jesus" Roger Ver appears to have a strong political motivation. Just like the case of the Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, many individuals and companies have been accused of more serious crimes but have received much lighter sentences than Roger. If the IRS is really threatening Roger's lawyers to obtain confidential information, that is a malicious act. The right to confidential legal counsel must be held in the highest regard. Genuine good-faith mistakes should be corrected by providing individuals with the opportunity to pay their taxes (including interest and penalties), rather than through prosecution.

On March 1st, based on mempool data, the most recent block on the Bitcoin network is Block 885840, which was mined at 18:30:14. There is an interval of more than 77 minutes from the previous block, Block 885839, which was mined at 17:13:00.

On March 1st, as reported by the Securities Times, DeepSeek released an article today titled "DeepSeek-V3/R1 Inference System Overview", which exposed the key secrets behind the V3/R1 inference system. Notably, the article for the first time disclosed crucial information such as DeepSeek's theoretical cost and profit margin. According to the introduction, assuming the GPU rental cost is $2 per hour, the total cost is $87,072 per day. If all tokens are priced according to DeepSeek R1, theoretically, the total daily revenue would be $562,027, with a cost profit margin of 545%.

On March 1st, based on DefiLlama data, it is reported that the current total market capitalization of stablecoins on the entire network is $2251.52 billion. There has been a 0.62% decrease in the past week. The market dominance of USDT is 63.33%.

On March 1st, according to on-chain data analyst Elliptic, the Bybit hacker resumed the transfer and laundering of the stolen assets one day after ceasing their activities. As of yesterday when the hacker was "taking a break", their address still held 218,000 ETH (approximately $486 million).