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Bitcoin may rival gold as inflation hedge over next decade — Adam Back

Bitcoin could begin to take market share from gold over the next decade as a hedge against inflation and geopolitical uncertainty, according to Blockstream CEO Adam Back. Speaking during a fireside chat with Cointelegraph managing editor Gareth Jenkinson at Paris Blockchain Week 2025, Back said rising inflation and monetary instability across global economies will drive

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Panicked Bitcoiner mistakenly pays over $70K of BTC in fees

One presumably panicked Bitcoin user paid nearly 0.75 BTC ($70,500) in a replace-by-fee (RBF) transaction fee. The transaction in question was sent about 30 minutes after midnight UTC on April 8. It was the second attempt at performing an RBF that changed the transaction’s target address, sending 0.48 Bitcoin ($37,770) with 0.2 BTC of change

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Crypto

MEV bot loses $180K in ETH from access control exploit

A maximal extractable value (MEV) bot lost about $180,000 in Ether after an attacker exploited a vulnerability in its access control systems.  On April 8, blockchain security firm SlowMist reported that the MEV bot lost 116.7 Ether (ETH) because of the lack of access control. Threat researcher Vladimir Sobolev, also known as Officer’s Notes on

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Walgreens tops estimates as drugstore chain cuts costs, prepares to go private

The company is in the process of being taken private by Sycamore Partners in a deal that is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year. ​Read More

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Amid stock selloffs, don’t panic say experts

Investors are on a rollercoaster ride and not the fun kind with the U.S. stock market under extreme volatility amid heavy selling as President Trump stands firm, wielding his broad tariff strategy against most of our trading partners.  The S&P 500 briefly hit a bear market on Monday, following the Nasdaq Composite, which fell into

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There is one way to make manufacturing great again, and Congress must do it now

Imagine an America where strength, prosperity, and peace are not just hopeful ideals but lived realities—where the American worker is supported, economic growth is encouraged, and manufacturing is our superpower.  This vision requires a serious policy commitment that Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are working to deliver. Congress must act now to continue

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Crypto

Cathie Wood’s ARK bags $26M in Coinbase shares, unloads Bitcoin ETF

Cathie Wood’s investment firm ARK Invest is showing a mixed reaction to the United States’ latest trade tariffs, offloading shares of its spot Bitcoin ETF while increasing its position in Coinbase. ARK has acquired $26.6 million of Coinbase (COIN) stock since US President Donald Trump announced new trade tariffs on April 2, according to trading

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The gold standard is back — Stablecoins need to rethink what ‘backing’ really means

Opinion by: William Campbell, advisory lead at USDKG Stablecoins were heralded as a breakthrough in the cryptocurrency space as a way to marry the lightning-fast, borderless nature of digital assets with the stability of traditional currencies. They achieve this by pegging their value to reserves like fiat currencies or commodities. Stablecoins are engineered to maintain

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Nigerian court postpones Binance tax evasion case to end of April: Report

A Nigerian court has reportedly delayed the country’s tax evasion case against Binance until April 30 to give time for Nigeria’s tax authority to respond to a request from the crypto exchange. Reuters reported on April 7 that a lawyer for Binance, Chukwuka Ikwuazom, asked a court the same day to invalidate an order allowing

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China’s tariff response may mean more capital flight to crypto: Hayes

China’s response to America’s sweeping trade tariffs could result in capital flight to Bitcoin and crypto, according to BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes. “If not the Fed [Federal Reserve], then the PBOC [People’s Bank of China] will give us the Yahtzee ingredients,” said Hayes on X on April 8 in reference to the catalyst needed to

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