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🍿 Forbes published an article about Eric Trump and his mining company American Bitcoin, highlights:
🔵 The company sells investors the image of a "money printing machine", but the main profit goes to insiders, not retail investors.
🔵 American Bitcoin makes money not only from mining, but also from the hype around the Trump name, high stock valuations, and attracting funds for BTC purchases.
🔵 When going public on Nasdaq, the company was valued at approximately $13.2 billion, although it had about $270 million in BTC on its balance sheet.
🔵 Shares fell by approximately 92% from their peak, investors lost about $500 million, while Eric Trump's net worth grew from $190 million to $280 million.
Eric Trump responded that Forbes had become a "political weapon" and provided his own figures: American Bitcoin already has over 7000 BTC, approximately 90,000 miners, and 28 EH/s of power.
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🇺🇸 CFTC will use AI to monitor trading data on the crypto market and review crypto company registration applications.
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💸 Over $1 trillion was moved using stablecoins in April — in 2026, the monthly volume of transfers has never fallen below this mark.
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🇮🇱 In Israel approved BILS — the first regulated stablecoin pegged to the shekel and issued by a local crypto exchange.
The token was tested on Solana for two years, and its reserves will be held in separate accounts in Israel under regulatory oversight.
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🪙 Solana has completed preparations for its transition to post-quantum security and selected the Falcon algorithm, one of the most promising next-generation standards.
This is a step toward securing the network against future quantum computer attacks that could break current cryptography.
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🇷🇺 Russian Ministry of Finance proposed to update cryptocurrency taxation rules — the tax will be paid through intermediaries (brokers and managers).
At the same time, transactions with digital assets are planned to be exempt from VAT, except for the sale of software licenses.
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🚓 Ukrainian security forces shut down a conversion center with a turnover of up to UAH 18 billion ($430 million) — money was converted into cash and crypto through fictitious VAT to complicate tracking.
The scheme involved about 500 entities: fictitious companies, individual entrepreneurs (FOPs), and non-residents from the EU and UAE.
After 40+ searches, documents, equipment, seals, cash, and cars were seized; four participants have already been detained.
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🪙 To Binance over the past two months flowed in over $6 billion in stablecoins — this is one of the clearest signals of liquidity inflow into the market.
Typically, such volumes indicate that large players are holding capital ready and waiting for the moment to enter crypto.
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🪙 Ethereum — the only true stablecoin:
🔵 On April 26, 2021, it cost $2,328
🔵 On April 27, 2026, again $2,328.
Five years, thousands of updates, ETFs, DeFi, staking, L2 — "and the cart is still there."
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💳 Western Union is preparing to launch its own stablecoin USDPT on the Solana blockchain as early as May — as an alternative to SWIFT transfers.
In parallel, the company is building a digital asset network to integrate crypto wallets with its global network and will later release the USD Stable Card, strengthening its entry into crypto payments.
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🤣 On Polymarket, only 3% of traders actually set prices and take the lion's share of profits — the remaining participants mostly lose money, effectively "funding" this small group.
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💸 DeFi United has already raised over 100,000 ETH ($234 million) for Aave's recovery after the Kelp hack — this almost covers the $290 million damage.
Mantle contributed the most — 30,000 ETH, and DAO Aave — 25,000 ETH; another approximately 30,700 ETH was returned by freezing stolen funds in Arbitrum.
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⚖️ In the US, 22-year-old Evan Tangeman was sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in a crypto fraud scheme worth $263,000,000.
The stolen money was laundered through a complex network and spent on a luxurious life — expensive mansions, Lamborghinis, Rolexes, and other attributes of "successful success".
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🔫 Trump was shot at again — at the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton, a man with several weapons attempted to breach a security checkpoint, gunfire ensued, one agent was hit in the bulletproof vest, and Trump, Melania, and Vance were urgently evacuated.
The suspect was apprehended, the motive has not yet been disclosed, but the story has already become a political shock — especially given that this is the very hotel where Reagan was shot in 1981.
Crypto also quickly entered the narrative: a version spread on social media that the suspect had MetaMask with TRUMP and MELANIA, but there is no official confirmation of this yet.
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🪙 Bitcoin network activity has fallen to 2018 bear market levels, although the price has grown many times since then.
Analysts believe this may indicate a shift in demand towards institutional players — Bitcoin is increasingly being used through centralized services, rather than directly on-chain.
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🇰🇿 The regulator AFSA warned residents of Kazakhstan about the risks of using unlicensed platforms for trading digital assets — a well-known brand, app, advertisement, or social media do not mean that the service has permission to operate in the AIFC jurisdiction.
Users are advised to check platforms in advance through the AFSA public register and not to transfer funds to companies with unconfirmed status.
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🇦🇪 UAE announced a possible withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC+ starting May 1, which will allow the country to produce oil without quotas.
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⚙️ Jack Dorsey's Block company unveiled a BTC proof-of-reserves algorithm — a technology with which anyone can independently verify the firm's bitcoin holdings via an on-chain signature.
This is how Block confirms its 8,883 BTC worth over $680 million and demonstrates the approach "don't trust, verify on the blockchain".
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🪙 The Trump administration is preparing a plan to create a national Bitcoin reserve — it could initially include approximately 200,000 BTC seized by law enforcement.
The strategy is expected to be presented within the next two months.
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🗽 The SEC and CFTC want to rebuild the rules for the crypto market — together they will categorize tokens by type and simplify work for companies in the USA.
The plans include — giving projects the opportunity to legally test products under the supervision of regulators and accelerate settlements through tokenization.
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🪙 A rare situation in Ethereum: the price is falling, but network activity, on the contrary, is hitting a new high — the 100-day average of active addresses has reached 587,000.
Usually, such user growth went hand in hand with ETH's growth, which is why analysts consider the coin potentially undervalued.
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🪙 Strategy bought 3273 BTC.
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📺 CZ gave a new interview in which stated, that in 5 years the word "crypto" may almost disappear from use — blockchain will simply become a basic financial infrastructure, just as the internet became an ordinary part of life.
In his opinion, traditional finance and the crypto market will merge into one system, tokenized assets will simply become assets, and AI agents will specifically need blockchain for calculations, because the banking system is too old and inconvenient for them.
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🇫🇷 In France charged 88 people, including teenagers, in cases of "wrench attacks" — violent attacks for access to crypto wallets.
The investigation showed that organized groups are behind a series of 12 cases, involved in multiple attacks.
The number of such crimes is growing rapidly (67 cases in 2025 and dozens already in 2026), so authorities warn — displaying crypto assets on social media increasingly makes people targets.
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👻 Fear and Greed Index has left the fear zone for the first time since January, rising to 47 — the market is gradually thawing.
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🔐 How long does it take to crack a password? Everything is decided by length and variety of characters: 8 characters consisting of letters, numbers, and symbols can be brute-forced in about 5 months, while 12 characters with the same set — already up to 10 million years.
A normal long password with numbers, letters, and symbols is practically impossible to guess by brute force, while short and simple combinations, such as qwerty123, are cracked almost instantly.
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🚬 Not a day without a hack — today Scallop, one of the leading DeFi protocols on Sui, was hacked.
The exploit affected the sSUI reward pool side-contract, from which approximately 150,000 SUI were stolen, but the main contracts and other pools remained secure.
Scallop has already frozen the affected contract and promised to compensate 100% of losses at its own expense.
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🪙 A reorganization of 13 blocks occurred in the Litecoin network after a zero-day vulnerability attack — attackers disrupted the operation of large mining pools and attempted to conduct invalid transactions via MimbleWimble Extension Block.
The developers rolled back the blockchain — the attack lasted over three hours and affected several cross-chain protocols.
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🪙 Bitmine has never closed a month without buying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of ETH — the company has been consistently buying the asset since summer 2025.
Bitmine currently holds about 5 million ETH, of which about 3.33 million ETH are staked.
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👁 Market capitalization of NVIDIA returned to levels above $5 trillion — for the first time since early November 2025.
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