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Tether hired top HSBC gold traders, then cut them weeks before auditors arrive
Paolo Ardoino said that Tether wanted to allocate 10% to 15% of its $20 billion proprietary investment portfolio to phys...

Bitcoin traders cheer April’s historic gains, yet one Fed calendar date could flip this rally overnight
Bitcoin price started April back above $68,000 after a late-March relief rally tied to hopes that the Iran war could mov...

Why Google’s new breakthrough quantum research focuses on Bitcoin rather than banking or nuclear codes
On Mar. 30, Google Quantum AI published a 57-page whitepaper coauthored with Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation and Dan Boneh of Stanford. The paper demonstrates that breaking the 256-bit ellipti...

Cardano’s $9B network has little real activity — its new system aims to fix that
The Midnight Foundation declared its network live on Mar. 29, with the genesis block dated Mar. 17. That launch gives Cardano's community its first production test of Charles Hoskinson's argument that...

Washington moves to cut China out of the machines powering US Bitcoin mining
America holds roughly 38% of global Bitcoin mining capacity, and the specialized hardware powering that position comes overwhelmingly from Chinese manufacturers. Senators Bill Cassidy and Cynthia Lumm...

Bitcoin, stocks rally because of chatter that Iran is ready to ‘end the war’ as Dollar Index sinks below 100
Bitcoin rose back above $68,000 on March 31 after markets began to bet on a resolution to the Iran-US-Israel War and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran was prepared to end the war under c...

CLARITY Act deadline in weeks could kill stablecoin earnings and push money into Bitcoin
Senate Banking is targeting the second half of April for a markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, with Easter recess running through Apr. 13. Senator Cynthia Lummis publicly confirmed the tim...

Google slashes quantum cracking estimates by 20X creating $600 billion countdown for Bitcoin and Ethereum
A new paper from Google Quantum AI has sharply reduced the estimated hardware required to crack elliptic-curve cryptography used by Bitcoin and much of Ethereum, moving a long-running security debate ...

Bitcoin treasury company sells $20M BTC at a loss as its stock collapses after buying at $118k
Bitcoin enters April with a price carrying the weight of macro conditions, corporate balance sheets, and the credibility of the public wrappers built around it. CryptoSlate has already laid out the br...

The new IRS crypto tax form can flag your sale before you prove what you actually owe
The first Form 1099-DA season is arriving for US crypto investors with a basic problem: many people are getting the new IRS form before they understand what it actually tells them. A Coinbase and Coin...