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⁠Decentralized VPN Gaining Steam at 100,000 Users Worldwide Tachyon, a blockchain-based ecosystem built with the help of proof-of-stake creator, Sunny King, already has 100,000 entities using its VPN.

⁠Miner Survivability Post-Halving: A Hash Rate Comparison Poolin releases figures showing current hashrate distribution in the lower quartile to calculate miner capitulation after the halving of Bitcoin’s block subsidy.

⁠Study Shows UK Blockchain Companies Are Shifting Back To Traditional Funding Strategies A study by MMC Ventures unveiled the return to the dynamics of traditional capital funding by blockchain companies.

⁠Former Bakkt CEO and Current US Senator Loeffler Sees 20% Approval Among Voters Senator Kelly Loeffler, formerly CEO of Bakkt and currently a member of the task force to reopen the U.S., sees plummeting approval ratings…

⁠Bitcoin Has Entered "Optimism” Phase — Is "Belief" Or "Fear" Next? Bloomberg analyst concurs optimistic on-chain indicators.

⁠Is Elon Musk Selling His Bitcoin? A recent tweet storm from Elon Musk begs the question — is Tesla's founder selling his reportedly small Bitcoin holdings?

⁠Price Analysis 5/1: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, BNB, EOS, XTZ, XLM Most major cryptocurrencies are facing resistance at higher levels, meaning a few days of consolidation could be needed before the rally can resume.

⁠CoinMarketCap Roast Day: Second Place Is Still Great, CZ! CoinMarketCap invited us to “roast them” for their seventh birthday celebration… so we found a few numbers that might make new owner CZ feel the burn.

⁠BTC Maximalists Are Right That 95% of Crypto Is a Scam, Says Emin Gun Sirer The creator of first PoW-based crypto says the vast majority of projects are just “recycling something that belongs to someone else.”

⁠No Global Central Bank Is Working on Retail Digital Currency Use, Says R3 No central bank is currently working on a CBDC that can be used by consumers, according to blockchain firm R3.

​​Risktech Company Says AI Is the Future of Financial Planning A risktech company says universal access to AI represents the future of financial planning — and it is vowing to empower millions of people #Sponsored

⁠Charlie Shrem Gives Exclusive Update on Mysterious Letter Charlie Shrem gave Cointelegraph an exclusive update to the mysterious story of a letter he received in 2014 from a ‘Marcel Mellish.’

​​If you haven't had the time to read our new digest yet, it's time to do it! A review of the main news, events and stats of the past month! Bitcoin halving, Chinese CBDC, Binance buys CoinMarketCap and more — Start your…

​​EOSDT Supply Cap Increases by $100M With Bitcoin Liquidity Support Multi-chain DeFi framework, Equilibrium, raised EOSDT circulation cap from $70 million up to $170 million with pBTC integration.

⁠Top Crypto Traders Explain Where Bitcoin Price Will Go After $9,400 Rally Leading crypto traders lay out both bearish and bullish scenarios for Bitcoin as the halving approaches.

⁠Blockchain Co-Inventor Offers His View Into Satoshi Nakamoto’s Background Blockchain co-inventor may have crossed paths with Satoshi in pre-Bitcoin days.

⁠Developers Vie to Implement ZCash Functionality as a Bitcoin Sidechain Developers were challenged to create a Bitcoin sidechain with the privacy features of ZCash, using Drivechain technology.

⁠Ethereum 2.0 Staking Upgrade Can Trigger ETH Price Rally One analyst suggests staking may trigger a bull run for ETH, but how likely is ETH 2.0 to generate this amount of demand?

⁠US Bitcoin Holders Worry About Chinese Control of the Mining Network China has consolidated more than half of the world’s Bitcoin mining operations. What threats could the situation create?

⁠250M Pieces of Digital Content to Be Copyrighted on Ontology Blockchain DLT firms are targeting the copyright industry, with Ontology partnering with social creator platform OGQ to copyright 250 million pieces of digita…

⁠Central Bank Digital Currencies: Changing the Architecture of Money Traditional finances could be dramatically changed in the near future, and central bank-issued digital currency is the first step.

​​Is Gaming A Waste of Time? A Blockchain Game Wants to Change That A blockchain-based game says it offers something that has been near impossible to find until now: the chance to earn assets and keep them forever #Spons…

⁠Bitcoin Price Hits Resistance at $9,050 as 7% Daily Comeback Continues BTC gets propelled over the $9,000 mark but fails to immediately cement the level as support in volatile Friday trading.

⁠Ethereum-Based Digital Art Platform ArtID Launches Security Token Offering ArtID aims to collect up to nearly 5 million euro in its security token offering, having already reached the soft cap set at 580,000 euros.

⁠Samsung Pay Now Supports Swipe's Cryptocurrency Visa Cards Swipe Visa holders can now make payments with their crypto using Samsung Pay on their smartphone or smartwatch.

⁠Brave Browser Brings Binance Integration to All Desktop Users The Binance widget was previously only available for the Brave Nightly and Beta versions.

⁠Amid Pandemic Downturn, Crypto Lender Celsius Hits 50K in Bitcoin Deposits Cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform Celsius Network has topped 50,000 Bitcoin in deposits — worth over $380,000,000 — since its launch…

⁠Justin Sun Recounts Steem-Hive Hard Fork at Virtual Blockchain Week During Virtual Blockchain Week, Justin Sun recounted his version of the events surrounding Hive’s controversial fork away from Steem.

⁠ETH 2.0 Issuance Will Be 2 Million a Year at Most Says Vitalik Ethereum token issuance will be greatly reduced with Ethereum 2.0 says Vitalik Buterin.