“Success only comes to those who dare to attempt.”
-Mallika Tripathi
Happy Friday! Hope you had a good week. Bitcoin did a quick pop and drop and believe it or not its pretty flat since last week $40,553.46 lol. Bitcoin remains resilient so R-E-L-A-X relax. Keep stacking sats, using all the options like cash back cards and soon you will be able to pay off debt the way a Canadian artist did. Governments are still grappling with how to control the impact Digital Assets bring to their country; Ukraine is trying to ban Bitcoin purchases with local currency. Other assets getting press is ADA, DCR, TRX, GMT, and NEAR.
JUST IN
- Binance CEO says exchange seized $5.8 million from Axie hackers (TB | Coindesk)
- Coinbase Card Launched via Visa with Crypto Cashback for US Users (UToday)
- Blockchain.com names custody partner for its institutional offering (Cointelegraph)
CHECK THIS OUT
- Ukraine bans Bitcoin purchases with local currency amid martial law (Cointelegraph | Finbold | Coindesk)
- How This Canadian Artist Paid Off $80,000 College Debt Thanks To Crypto (Forbes)
- Ripple v. SEC: Attorney Jeremy Hogan Says Case Has Moved "So Far So Good" Despite Delays (UToday)
- Alex Saunders issues a public apology and claims to be settling crypto dealings (Cointelegraph)
MARKET WATCH
- Crypto Markets Lost $100B in a Day as Bitcoin Plunged to $40K (CryptoPotato)
- Retail Interest in Bitcoin is Dwindling, Google Data Suggests (Coindesk)
- Crypto Traders Find Ether Options Attractive as 'Implied Volatility' Slides (Coindesk)
BITCOIN
- Bitcoin retests $40K after stocks sell-off meets Fed balance sheet bust (Cointelegraph | NewsBTC | BIC)
- Bitcoin Whale Abruptly Moves Over $600,000,000 in BTC – Here’s Where the Massive Crypto Trove Is Going (TDH)
ALTCOINS
- Cardano (ADA) Trading Volume Crashes by More Than $372 Billion in Quarterly Low (BIC)
- Decred (DCR) and Tron (TRX) lead the top 100 pack with solid gains in the last 24 hours (Finbold)
- STEPN to new highs? GMT price painting first 'bull flag' toward $5 target (Cointelegraph)
- WAVES Falls by 70% in 22 Days: Biggest Weekly Losers (BIC)
ANALYST'S CORNER
- Jason Pizzino: Crypto Analyst Explains What Needs To Happen for Bitcoin Price To Reach $1 Million (Cryptoglobe)
- Coin Bureau: $NEAR Is Primed for an Explosive Rally (TDH)
NOTABLE VOICES
- Karen Ottoni: Climate, blockchain and CBDCs: an interview with HyperLedger's Karen Ottoni (Cointelegraph)
- Michael Saylor: 99% of Crypto Assets Are Securities (TDH)
- Emmanuel Macron: On crypto - 'I don't believe in a self-regulated financial sector' (Cointelegraph)
- Dr. Ryan Clements: Warns of Systemic Risks of Terra ($LUNA) Ecosystem (Cryptoglobe)
- Sandeep Nailwal: India Needs a Single Crypto Regulator, Says Polygon Co-Founder (Coindesk)
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
- Columbia Uni professor heads up a16z's new crypto research unit (Cointelegraph)
ACCEPTANCE
- UAE Grocery Delivery Service Accepts Crypto Payments (Bitcoinist)
WEB 3
- What Is an NFT?: The Forgotten Use Cases for Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) (NewsBTC)
- OpenSea Suspends Trading of Sands Vegas Casino Club NFTs (Coindesk)
- ApeCoin DAO Receives Flak for Its Flawed Governance Structure (BIC)
- What Really Is the Metaverse? Review of the Most Popular Virtual Worlds (TDH)
- Aussie media company goes all in on NBA fan engagement with NFTs (Cointelegraph)
ETFs
- Fidelity Expands ETF Offerings With Metaverse and Crypto Payments Funds (BIC)
CBDC
- Tron's TRX Token Jumps 7% On News of Native Algorithmic Stablecoin (Decrypt)
DEFI
- Paxo Finance Aims to Bring Millions of Users to DeFi with Unique Under-Collateralized Loan Protocol (Bitcoinist)
BLOCKCHAIN
- Bitcoin Core releases update to potentially natively support Apple Silicon (M1 family) chips (Finbold)
- Ethereum Beacon Chain Adds 50K New Validators in Just a Month (BIC)
- Algorand Launches First Smart Contract to Offset Carbon Emissions: Details (UToday)
- Shiba Inu Payments Expand to Millions of Users Globally as BitPay Adds Four New Partners (UToday)
MINING
- This Earth Day analysts say Bitcoin mining is naturally gravitating to green energy (Cointelegraph)
THE POLITICIZATION OF HASH RATE IS AN ATTACK VECTOR ON BITCOIN MINERS
REGULATION
- Australian Regulator Sets out Crypto Policy Roadmap (BIC)
- Crypto Taxes Fall Under EU Lawmakers' Gaze (Coindesk)
FOLLOW DAT MONEY
- SoftBank leads $60M CertiK raise as demand for Web3 security grows (Cointelegraph | Coindesk)
PODCASTS
- The Pomp Podcast: #927 Darius Dale On The Odds Of A Recession This Year
- The Breakdown: Why Crypto Matters for Emerging Markets
- Unconfirmed: Why the SEC's Proposed Rules Affecting DeFi Could Violate the First Amendment
- The Stephan Livera Podcast: SLP367 Pierre Rochard - Lightning Network Comes to Kraken
- Untold Stories: Crypto Bridges and Payment Rails with Tyler Spalding
- The Scoop: Policy Scoop with Aislinn Keely: A roundup of the policy discussion at Miami's Bitcoin 2022
- The Crypto Conversation: How Bitcoin Mining drives 70% renewable energy by 2030
- Decrypt Daily: April 21: NFT Department Store, Coinbase NFT Market Place, APE Coin Staking
