- 2,759 Bitcoin ATMs were installed worldwide in the first quarter of 2022. (Thecoinrepublic) Exactly 9 years ago, the capitalization of Bitcoin exceeded one billion dollars.
- Waves' USDN stablecoin fell to $0.76 before rebounding yet to regain parity with the dollar.
- Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike, announces Shopify integration for Bitcoin payments on the Lightning Network.
- Recently hacked Axie Infinity received $150 million from Binance to reimburse its players. (Cointribune). In the same time Binance has donated $2.5 million to the UN to help refugees, the first time the organization has accepted cryptocurrency. (Indiatimes)
- Vitalik Buterin donated $5 million in ETH in support of Ukraine.
- The NFT of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first tweet is sold for $48.3 million. (Bloomberg)
- Bolt, Uber's main competitor, is buying cryptocurrency payment provider Wyre for $1.5 billion. (Reuters)
- Intel has launched its chip reserved for Bitcoin mining, which is 3 times more efficient than the Antminer S19XP and more energy efficient. (Coindesk)
- Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey and Adam Back have teamed up to build a Bitcoin mining farm in Texas powered exclusively by solar energy.
- Norway produces 1% of the world's energy for mining Bitcoin with renewable energy. (Cointelegraph)
- More than 80% of central banks plan to launch a national crypto (Coindesk)
- Russia's biggest bank, Sberbank, has launched its own crypto, the price of which has already fallen by 90%.
- One in four young people in the United States say they rely on crypto to finance their retirement. (Thestar)
- The autonomous region of Madeira in Portugal and the island of Roatán in Honduras make BTC a "legal" currency. (Theblockcrypto)