Bitcoin Mining’s Boon for Small Town America Will Foxley’s doc about a small Texas town’s embrace of a new mining facility paints a more positive story about Bitcoin’s impact on rural communities than typically reported.

Genesis Completes Redemption of GBTC Shares, Buys 32K Bitcoins with Proceeds The company in February got permission from a New York bankruptcy court to sell approximately 36 million shares of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust.

Ethereum Foundation Researchers’ Proposal to Slow ETH Issuance Draws Pushback The proposal, initially introduced in February, could harden Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency, ether, as as a form of money – by reducing the inflation of new supply. But some members of the community say if it’s not broke, don’t fix it.

Did Strong Bitcoin ETF Demand Kill Halving’s Potential Bullish Rally? The much stronger-than-expected inflows into the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have already caused concerns about a supply shock in the bitcoin market, potentially taking away some of the impacts of the halving.

Jury Begins Deliberations in Civil Fraud Case Against Do Kwon, Terraform Labs NEW YORK – Lawyers for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rested their case against Terraform Labs and its co-founder, Do Kwon, on Friday, releasing a New York jury to decide whether Kwon and his company are liable for allegedly misleading investors about the stability of Terra USD (UST) and its integration with a Korean mobile pa…

Bitcoin Cash Rally Led CoinDesk 20 Gainers Last Week: CoinDesk Indices Market Update

MicroStrategy’s Implied Premium to Bitcoin Settling Into New Norm, BTIG Says

BlackRock Adds Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Citadel as APs for Bitcoin ETF BlackRock (BLK) has added five additional authorized participants (APs) to the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), bringing the total number to nine as the fund continues to attract billions of dollars of inflows from investors.

DWS, Galaxy Digital List Exchange-Traded Commodities Offering BTC, ETH Exposure in Germany The products, which track the performance of the two largest cryptocurrencies by market value, carry a fee of 0.35% and were listed on the Deutsche Boerse on Thursday.

The EasyA Consensus Hackathon: Web3 Unicorn Breeding Ground

Shinobi: How Covenants Help Scale Bitcoin Bitcoin Magazine’s technical editor says it’s necessary to implement covenants – which allow joint ownership of UTXOs – if Bitcoin is to fulfill its promise of bringing financial self-sovereignty to people globally.

Bitcoin’s Acceptance as ‘Digital Gold’ May Spur Demand From New Investors: Coinbase Gold has outperformed after the Federal Reserve expressed a cautious stance on the pace of future interest-rate cuts, the report said.

U.S. Added 303K Jobs in March, Outpacing Expectations for 200K The ETF-led bitcoin rally has stalled over the past month, at least in part thanks to economic indicators pointing to higher than expected interest rates.

Warning for Altcoin Bulls: The Ether-Bitcoin Ratio Is About to Flash Death Cross A death cross occurs when a short-term moving average drops below a long-term moving average, signaling a potential long-term bearish shift in momentum.

Australian Asset Manager Monochrome Applies With Cboe Australia for a Spot Bitcoin ETF, Eyes Decision By Mid-Year Australian firm, Monochrome Asset Management, has applied for a spot bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) with the global listing exchange, Cboe Australia, it announced on Friday.

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Has Larger, More Diversified Business Model Following USBTC Merger: Canaccord The broker cut its price target to $14 from $17.50 while maintaining its buy rating.

Crypto Derivatives Lost Overall Market Share in March Despite Hitting Record High Trading Volume of $6.18T The share of crypto derivatives in total market activity slipped to 67.8% in March, according to CCData.

Ethena Onboards Bitcoin as Backing Asset to Make USDe ‘Safer’ The platform will use a cash-and-carry trade to short bitcoin futures and pocket funding rates to generate yield on its USDe tokens.

EU Watchdog Says Reordering Blockchain Transactions Might Be Market Abuse. Industry Says It’s Not Maximum Extractable Value (MEV), in which crypto miners reorder transactions they validate for profit, is not inherently bad, some policy experts point out.

OneCoin Compliance Chief Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Role in $4B Ponzi Scheme