While everyone is trying to get in on April Fools pranks, Chipotle is running an actual Burrito Day contest where the possible prizes are $500 or $25,000 in Bitcoin or a burrito. Chipotle is hoping that the Bitcoin winners will be so stoned that they buy a burrito with their entire winnings.
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South Korea’s government sold Bitcoin confiscated from a criminal in 2017, then worth $238k, for $10.8M. And they say crime doesn’t pay...
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Yearn Finance unveiled details about Coordinape, a decentralized platform for distributing community grants. Since this morning, 100 $40k grants were disbursed, all of them to a young and promising developer named… Andre Cronje.
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Thanks to a partnership between the blockchain-powered solar energy project, Power Ledger, and lager maker, Victoria Bitter, Aussies can now exchange solar power credits for beer. Not to be outdone, Texas oil companies will give Texans one Budweiser for every animal killed by oil production they bring in.
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Tether released an Assurance Report that USDT is fully backed. Because “it’s all good, trust us” is exactly the evidence investors expect from a company that just had to pay an $18.5M settlement for lying about this very thing.
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What was the funniest crypto April Fools joke you saw this year?
