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Bitcoin Hyper (HYPER) markets itself as the “fastest Bitcoin Layer 2 chain,” but behind the flashy website and countdown timer, many analysts are calling it one of the most overhyped and least transparent projects of 2025. With over $24.6 million raised out of a $25 million target, investors are being urged to proceed with extreme caution before joining the final stage of the presale.

Bitcoin Hyper’s website leans heavily on buzzwords Layer 2, scalability, speed, staking rewards, and meme utility. Yet despite these claims, there’s no verifiable technical documentation or transparent audit trail that proves these capabilities exist. The so-called “fastest Bitcoin Layer 2 chain” remains unverifiable, with no open-source code or independent performance benchmarks available to the public.

Unlike legitimate Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions such as Lightning or Stacks, Bitcoin Hyper has yet to release a functioning testnet, GitHub repository, or detailed roadmap. The ecosystem promises wallet, explorer, bridge, staking, memes are mostly marketing graphics without real development evidence.
Analysts argue that this project is more about hype than technology, using Bitcoin’s name and branding to attract retail investors unfamiliar with blockchain fundamentals.
 

Industry watchers have compared Bitcoin Hyper’s marketing playbook to previous presale tokens that collapsed shortly after exchange listings. With over $24.6 million already raised, the lack of transparency is alarming especially when compared to legitimate projects that maintain full developer visibility and technical accountability.
One top crypto analyst commented:
“Bitcoin Hyper is running a marketing masterclass in hype but it’s dangerously light on proof. Investors are buying into slogans, not substance.”
For serious investors, the answer is a firm no.
Bitcoin Hyper lacks the core fundamentals transparency, verified technology, and a credible development team that are essential for long-term sustainability. At this stage, it resembles a high-risk, hype-fueled presale designed for short-term speculation, not genuine blockchain innovation.
Even if the presale hits its $25 million target, analysts predict significant post-listing volatility as early buyers take profits and speculative demand dries up.
Bitcoin Hyper has mastered crypto marketing but not much else. Without proof of real infrastructure or leadership transparency, it stands as one of 2025’s most questionable “Layer 2” launches. Investors should avoid treating it as a legitimate Bitcoin upgrade and instead recognize it as a speculative, unverified presale with classic red flags: countdown timers, unverifiable audits, and anonymous developers.
Bitcoin Hyper is not building Bitcoin’s future it’s selling the illusion of it.

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Video has emerged appearing to show the alleged thieves behind the Louvre heist making their escape on a mechanical ladder in broad daylight.
Two people can be seen looking around frantically as they slowly descend, minutes after the famed Paris museum was broken into and €88m-worth (£77m) of France's crown jewels were stolen.
The gang of four thieves have not been caught and on Wednesday, the Louvre's boss admitted that staff had failed to spot them early enough because there was only one camera pointing on the gallery where the items were displayed.
In the video, the truck fitted with the ladder is seen parked by on a busy road running along the Seine as vehicles pass.
Laurence des Cars told French lawmakers that the Louvre planned to double the number of CCTV cameras in and around the museum.
She admitted that the camera trained on the Gallery of Apollo, the south-side room where the jewels were kept, was facing the wrong way.
Paris city prosecutor Laure Beccuau told the Ouest France newspaper that up to 150 DNA samples and fingerprints had been retrieved so far as part of the police investigation.
The theft happened in less than eight minutes, after the thieves arrived at 09:30 on Sunday (07:30 GMT) after the Louvre opened its doors to the public.
They stole eight items including an emerald necklace and earrings given as a wedding gift by Napoleon Bonaparte to his second wife, Marie-Louise
As they fled, they dropped a 19th-Century diamond-studded crown belonging to Empress Eugenie.
Although it was recovered, the crown was damaged and des Cars said it had probably been crushed as the thieves prised it from its display case.
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President Donald Trump signed a pardon Wednesday for convicted crypto executive Changpeng Zhao, who founded the Binance crypto exchange, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
“President Trump exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency,” Leavitt said. “In their desire to punish the cryptocurrency industry, the Biden Administration pursued Mr. Zhao despite no allegations of fraud or identifiable victims.”
Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison after reaching a deal with the Justice Department to plead guilty to charges of enabling money laundering at Binance, which he ran at the time.
“Deeply grateful for today’s pardon and to President Trump for upholding America’s commitment to fairness, innovation, and justice,” Zhao wrote in a post on X after the announcement. “Will do everything we can to help make America the Capital of Crypto and advance web3 worldwide.”
The United States also ordered Binance to pay more than $4 billion in fines and forfeiture, while Zhao agreed to pay $50 million in fines.
“These actions by the Biden Administration severely damaged the United States’ reputation as a global leader in technology and innovation,” Leavitt said. “The Biden Administration’s war on crypto is over.”
In November 2023, the Justice Department called the agreement with Binance and Zhao a “coordinated” action between the Treasury, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. “Binance became the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in part because of the crimes it committed — now it is paying one of the largest corporate penalties in U.S. history,” then-Attorney General Merrick Garland said in 2023.
Then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also said the company’s “willful failures allowed money to flow to terrorists, cybercriminals, and child abusers through its platform.”
Binance wrote in a blog post at the time that it “takes responsibility for this past chapter.”
Financial exchanges in the U.S., including those that specialize in cryptocurrency, are required to follow strict “know your customer” laws to identify their users. Binance was and still remains one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. The company says on its website that it processes more than $65 billion every day on average.
“We thank President Trump for his leadership and for his commitment to make the U.S. the crypto capital of the world,” a Binance spokesperson said in a statement. The company said Zhao’s “vision not only made Binance the world’s largest crypto exchange but shaped the broader crypto movement.”
During the 2024 election, Trump allied with the crypto industry. A crypto venture associated with his family has launched a number of crypto products over the last year.
In May, Trump hosted a dinner for top buyers of his “meme coin.” The crowd gathered at the dinner spent nearly $150 million buying the Trump meme coin.
Binance has close ties with World Liberty Financial, which has administered many of the Trump family’s crypto projects and generated more than $4 billion for the family, according to The Wall Street Journal. World Liberty’s flagship crypto coin runs on a crypto exchange that Binance quietly administers, the Journal also reported.
Binance also hired a new lobbyist in September, Charles McDowell, according to a public filing. McDowell is a friend of Donald Trump Jr., and he was photographed at the White House last week alongside the president’s eldest son.
On Oct. 20, McDowell’s lobbying firm, Checkmate Government Relations, disclosed that Binance had paid the firm $450,000 for the prior month’s work. According to the filing, McDowell lobbied the White House on an issue that his firm called “executive relief,” in addition to crypto policy.
World Liberty and Checkmate did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
In Thursday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about potential conflicts of interest related to Zhao’s pardon.
“The President and the White House have a very thorough examination of every pardon request that comes to the president’s desk,” she said.
“I spoke with our great White House counsel about the pardon after it happened,” Leavitt continued. “This was an overly prosecuted case by the Biden administration.”
Leavitt added that Trump wanted to “correct this overreach of the Biden administration’s misjustice, and he exercised his constitutional authority to do so.”
Zhao is one of the richest people in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires index, which ranks him the 31st wealthiest person in the world. As of Wednesday, his fortune was nearly $55 billion.
In May, Democratic Senators Warren, Durbin and Blumenthal wrote to the White House after Zhao said on a podcast that he had “applied for a presidential pardon.”
“These circumstances — involving billions of dollars in penalties and foreign investments, presidential family business interests, and the potential nullification of criminal sanctions — demand the highest levels of scrutiny to ensure that our justice system is operating free from inappropriate political and financial influence,” they wrote.
Thursday’s pardon is the latest in a string of high-profile pardons and commutations from Trump. The president has pardoned reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, hip hop star Lil Wayne, and most recently former congressman George Santos. In March, Trump pardoned three co-founders of the cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, according to CNBC.
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The idea that Bitcoin could erase US debt exposes the currency’s allure amid fiscal uncertainty and government liabilities.
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The US has never owed more money that it does today, and some believe the solution isn’t political reform or higher taxes but Bitcoin itself.
America’s national debt has crossed $38 trillion, surpassing the country’s annual GDP by nearly 31%.
Notably, the figure also marks one of the fastest periods of debt accumulation in modern history. The Kobeissi Letter pointed out that Washington added over $500 billion in new debts this month, or roughly $23 billion per day.
The firm added that at this pace, “there is a 100% certainty of US bankruptcy with a long enough timeframe.”
This warning rang alarm bells worldwide as it showed how unsustainable the US government’s current fiscal policy was.
However, Bitcoin advocates saw this as proof that fiat money has reached the limits of credibility.
As a result, the idea now circulating through crypto forums and policy debates is as radical as it is simple: what if Bitcoin could someday help erase the US debt?
At first glance, the theory sounds like digital-age alchemy, turning code into solvency. Yet it has gained surprising traction as fiscal anxiety spreads.
Last year, during his campaign for office, President Donald J. Trump suggested that the United States could clear its debts through Bitcoin. True to his belief, he approved the launch of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve upon ascension and touted the several benefits of the top crypto this year.
This move has gathered significant community support, with crypto advocate Senator Cynthia Lummis arguing that building a Sovereign Bitcoin Reserve could “shore up the dollar with a hard, auditable asset.”
In her view, holding Bitcoin alongside Treasuries would do what gold once did: signal credibility, hedge inflation, and perhaps, decades from now, help retire a fraction of the debt.
She said:
“[BTC will] secure our debt with a hard asset + we can audit it to prove reserves at any time.”
That rhetoric, once fringe, resonates in a world where fiscal expansion looks endless. But if the US ever attempted to use Bitcoin to extinguish its liabilities, how high would the flagship digital asset need to climb?
The math appears elegant at first. Divide $38 trillion in national debt by Bitcoin’s circulating supply of 19.93 million BTC, and you arrive at a figure near $1.9 million per coin.
At that price, Bitcoin’s total market capitalization would match the entire debt load of the US government.
But the equation breaks the moment you add reality. The US government doesn’t own 19.93 million Bitcoin, it owns only a fraction.
According to Bitcoin Treasuries data, the US currently holds about 326,373 BTC, or roughly 1.6% of BTC’s total supply, which was primarily acquired through seizures from criminal investigations.
If Washington tried to use only that amount to clear its debt, the number would significantly explode.
Divide $38 trillion by 326,373 coins, resulting in $116.5 million per Bitcoin. This is about 1,000 times higher than the current market price, near $108,000.
At that valuation, Bitcoin’s total market capitalization would soar to roughly $230 trillion, which is more than twice the world’s GDP.
Meanwhile, even if prices somehow reached those heights, the mechanics would collapse long before the debt vanished.
Bitcoin trades about $60-$70 billion in daily volume, according to CoinMarketCap data. This represents only a fraction of the $7.5 trillion liquidity seen in global bond or FX markets.
So, attempting to liquidate even a small share of supply to “repay” government debt would instantly crater demand and destroy price depth.
Moreover, there’s less Bitcoin to trade than most assume.
A Chainalysis report has suggested that about 20% of all mined coins, representing nearly 4 million BTC, are permanently lost to forgotten keys or destroyed wallets.
That leaves closer to 16 million BTC in effective circulation. Adjust for that, and the so-called “debt parity” figure rises significantly to more than $2 million.
While Bitcoin cannot literally extinguish America’s debt, the exercise exposes a more profound truth about modern finance.
It shows that governments can create liabilities faster than markets can produce credible collateral. Every new borrowing widens the gap between what money represents and what it measures.
That asymmetry explains why Bitcoin continues to resonate in policy debates and portfolio strategies alike. Its design, capped at 21 million BTC, is in silent contrast to a financial system built on perpetual expansion. Scarcity, once treated as a relic of the gold era, has become the most valuable commodity in money.
Each trillion added to the US debt reinforces Bitcoin’s narrative of finite supply versus infinite credit. It also helps explain why institutional interest keeps deepening through spot ETFs, corporate treasuries, and even speculative talk of sovereign reserves.
For investors, Bitcoin has evolved from a curiosity into a macro hedge against a world where the denominator, the dollar itself, no longer feels fixed.
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Check out these betting trends and insights before you place player prop wagers on Aaron Rodgers for Sunday’s game, which starts at 8:20 p.m. ET on NBC/Peacock. Rodgers’ Pittsburgh Steelers (4-2) and the Green Bay Packers (4-1-1) square off in Week 8 at Acrisure Stadium.
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Tucker Carlson Refuses to Buy Bitcoin, Says It’s a CIA Operation  CryptoPotato
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