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Hundreds of people were collectively conned out of $21 million in a crypto investment scam driven by AI impersonations, police said.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Bitcoin (BTC) is entering what former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes calls โup only mode,โ as a deepening crisis in the US bond market potentially drives investors away from traditional haven assets and toward alternative stores of value.Loss of confidence in US policy boosts Bitcoinโs upside prospectsOn April 11, the benchmark US 10-year Treasury yield surged above 4.59%โits highest level in two months.US 10-year Treasury...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Swedish Member of Parliament Rickard Nordin has formally questioned the government about whether it will allow the central bank to add Bitcoin (BTC) to the countryโs foreign currency reserves. In an official written inquiry submitted to Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson, Nordin referenced international momentum and a growing global debate on the role of digital assets [โฆ] The post Swedish lawmaker urges government...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Neel Kashkari, President of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, addressed the issue of rising Treasury yields on April 11, suggesting that they might indicate a shift in investor sentiment away from United States government debt. Kashkari highlighted that the Federal Reserve has tools to provide more liquidity if necessary.While underscoring the importance of maintaining a strong commitment to reducing inflation, Kashkari...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Donald Trumpโs meme coin is approaching its first token unlock, with the projectโs team set to receive around 40 million TRUMP next Friday.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:A key Bitcoin (BTC) metric signaled a potential shift in its positioning after BTCโs long-term holder realized cap (LTH Realized Cap) surpassed $18 billion for the first time since September 2024. Data from CryptoQuant indicated that this cohort has exhibited aggressive accumulation, which previously marked the BTC bottom in Q3 2024.The LTH realized cap measures the BTC cost basis of investors, holding their allocation...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) acting chairman Mark Uyeda has suggested the potential creation of a conditional regulatory sandbox for blockchain-based securities trading. Uyeda made the remarks during the SEC Crypto Task Forceโs second roundtable on April 11, which focused on crypto trading platforms. He proposed a time-limited, conditional exemptive relief framework to support continued [โฆ] The post SEC...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Interim SEC Chairman Mark Uyeda hints at interest in a short-term solution for overseeing crypto firms while the agency contemplates permanent rules.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Trump kills DeFi broker rule in major crypto win: Finance Redefined, April 4โ11In a significant win for decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, US President Donald Trump overturned the Internal Revenue Serviceโs DeFi broker rule, which would have expanded existing reporting requirements to include DeFi platforms.Increasing US crypto regulatory clarity will attract more tech giants to the space, requiring existing...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Bitcoin (BTC) price has rebounded by over 11% from the April. 7 low of $74,400, and analysts believe that onchain and technical indicators point to a sustained recovery.According to popular analyst AlphaBTC, Bitcoin will see a sustained recovery if it holds above $81,500.Bitcoin price reclaimed the $80,000 psychological level after retesting the โweekly open and filling in some of the inefficiency left by the Trump...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Black Mirror's new season features a desperate man performing increasingly extreme stunts via livestream for digital money. Sound familiar?
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Solana-based token launchpad Pump.fun resumed its livestreaming functionality for all users on April 11, implementing a new set of moderation rules and enforcement mechanisms to curb misuse. The livestream feature has been suspended since Nov. 25, 2024, due to widespread abuse and the platformโs inability to manage user-generated content at scale. In the announcement, Pump.fun [โฆ] The post Pumpfun fully restores...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:But BlackRock funds tracking the price of the two largest cryptocurrencies by market value still generated $3.1 billion in net inflows.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:The S&P 500 Index briefly experienced Bitcoin-level volatility in the wake of US President Donald Trumpโs April 2 โLiberation Dayโ tariff announcement, underscoring the panic and fear gripping traditional markets amid the ongoing trade war.Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas alerted his followers on X that the S&P 500โs volatility, as measured by the โSPY US Equity Hist Volโ chart, reached 74 in early April,...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Gold soared to a new record high as the selloff in the U.S. dollar and long-term Treasuries continued in force on Friday.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Bitcoin (BTC) sought higher levels around the April 11 Wall Street open as the weekโs final US inflation data gave bulls hope.BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewAnalyst: PPI undershoot โgreatโ for US trade warData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD reaching highs of $83,245 as US Producer Price Index (PPI) data came in below expectations.The Index came in at 2.7% versus...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Canadians will choose a new prime minister this month. The odds currently do not favor the Bitcoin advocate.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, reported $3 billion in digital asset inflows during the first quarter of 2025 despite the volatility in the crypto market. The update came in the firmโs latest earnings report, which also revealed $84 billion in total net flows across its broader portfolio during the quarter. The performance [โฆ] The post BlackRockโs crypto ETFs thrive in one of the toughest quarters...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Ethereum developers have begun kicking around a series of ideas that could make the Ethereum network private at its core.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Tariff volatility returns, Gold hits ATH again, FARTCOIN nears $900M FOMO HOUR EP335 BTC falls to $78k then rebounds strongly. Trump signs bill repealing IRS rule targeting DeFi. North Carolina proposes tax payments in crypto. Arizona passes BTC mining rights bill. SEC sets out new guidance for crypto offerings. VanEck files for AVAX ETF with Nasdaq. WLFI denies selling ETH. Vitalik shares simplified ETH L1 privacy...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:The Arbitrum-based derivatives platform has a new protocol to make its financial pipes more efficient.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined an extensive plan to enhance the privacy of the network he helped create.In an April 11 roadmap, Buterin argued for incorporating privacy tools into Ether (ETH) wallets and implementing privacy-enhancing norms and features in the Ethereum ecosystem and protocol. He explained that the roadmap in question is a short-term solution that requires limited changes to the base...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:The Binance listing did not contribute to a continuation in price action.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Total digital asset AUM rose to more than $50 billion, a large number but a relatively minor proportion of BlackRock's more than $10 trillion under management.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Hopping from chain to chain is a common obfuscation tactic for criminals trying to cover their tracks, Elliptic CTO Jackson Hull said.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:The token is down by 83% since it launched in January.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:The end of one rule is the beginning of cryptoโs unresolved tax issues, says Robin Singh, CEO of crypto tax platform Koinly.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:A group of US Democratic lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, has strongly criticized the Department of Justice (DOJ) for shutting down its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET). In an April 10 letter, the group expressed concern that the move undermines efforts to combat growing criminal activity tied to digital assets. The NCET, disbanded on [โฆ] The post US lawmakers and Elizabeth Warren criticize...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:APX received exemptive relief from the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) at the start of this month.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:The year 2025 kicked off with a bang and a meme. Just weeks into the New Year, a frenzy of politically fueled memecoins sent Crypto Twitter into overdrive, while lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic turned up the heat on stablecoins, securities laws and tokenized assets, usually with different approaches.It was a whirlwind first quarter, shaped by Bitcoinโs dominance in the crypto market and a US political climate...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:United States President Donald Trumpโs official memecoin is set to unlock $321 million worth of vested tokens on April 18.Token vesting tracker Tokenomist data shows that 40 million Trump tokens will be released in a cliff unlock, meaning the tokens will be available all at once. With the tokens currently trading at about $8, the unlock represents about $321 million in supply entering the market at once.Token vesting...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Solana (SOL) jumped 6.4% and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) rose 5.3%, leading index higher.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Sidechain developer StarkWare and Weizmann Institute of Science researchers claim to have created a workaround for multiple Bitcoin script limitations.According to a recent research paper, the new design claims to allow the deployment of complex smart contracts on Bitcoin in a more capital-efficient manner. The new system may also be vastly more efficient from a computing standpoint.ColliderVM is a protocol designed to...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:The Trump tariff pause the pause offers โbreathing spaceโ while keeping pressure on China, said one analyst.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Inflation breakevens head south amid the Trump trade war.
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