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⁠Zcash Researchers Discover Criminals Are Laughably Unskilled at Using Crypto Rand Corporation unveiled a study that found a widespread lack of knowledge towards Zcash from dark web criminals.

⁠Telegram Founder Bashes US as a ‘Police State’ Amid Free TON Launch Telegram founder says that the U.S. is no longer an attractive place for tech entrepreneurs.

⁠Bitcoin Still Needs 104 Years To Catch Up With NYC Subway Bitcoin is still far behind the NYC Subway in one key metric.

⁠Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones Buys Bitcoin to Hedge Against Inflation Paul Tudor Jones, the billionaire founder of hedge fund Tudor Investment Corporation, reportedly revealed that Bitcoin is part of his portfolio.

⁠How Does Halving Work: The Code Behind The Hype Did Satoshi Nakamoto make a mistake in the Halving code?

"The greatest minds of the world, Einstein, Oppenheimer, virtually all of humanity… for decades, we carried big heavy bags in the airport. And none of us ever thought to put wheels on suitcases!" William Quigley, co-foun…

⁠No, Free TON Hasn’t Just Forked Telegram’s TON Blockchain Free TON Community answers questions on the unexpected launch of a “free” version of the Telegram Open Network that took place today.

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⁠Europe’s Largest Private Hospital Hit By Crypto Ransomware Amid Pandemic Hackers infected the largest private hospital in Europe with ransomware.

⁠BTC Miners Expect Bitcoin Price to Surpass $12K After Reward Halving Miners are hoarding most of the Bitcoin they mine ahead of the halving, showing they expect a much higher price after the event.

⁠New Portfolio Management App Targets Investors With Just $25 to Spend Simplified crypto portfolio app hopes to attract new users to the space by targeting investors with as little as $25.

⁠DeFi’s Recent, Costly Setbacks Serve as Lessons for the Sector After a meteoric rise, DeFi has suffered several high-profile setbacks. The question is not about whether it will recover, but what needs to be done to ensu…

⁠Tether Held on Exchanges Could Help Forecast Bitcoin Bull Runs A crypto data firm rep explained how analysis of Tether’s on-chain data can be used to forecast Bitcoin’s bull runs.

⁠Stairway to Scarcity: Bitcoin Sentiment to Rise Despite Halving Impact Post-halving scenario on Bitcoin’s long-term market trust and reputation seems quite positive according to crypto pundits.

⁠Loopring DEX Quickly Fixes Major Bug Before It Can Be Exploited A security vulnerability on decentralized exchange, Loopring, was identified and quickly patched before it could be exploited.

⁠New Report Explains Why XRP Takes Weekends Off A report from Flipside Crypto delves into why XRP trading drops significantly on weekends.

⁠OKEx Executive: Digital Currency as a Basis of Post-Crisis World Order The world will not be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic with the necessity for the brand new global monetary system based on crypto.

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⁠Indian State Gov’t Partners With Blockchain Firms to Drive Tech Growth Indian state government-led blockchain accelerator T-Block partners with Aeternity, Harmony, and Matic Network to ramp up blockchain growth.

⁠US Debt Hits $25T — Stimulus Checks That Bought Bitcoin Now Worth $1.6K The Federal Reserve’s Zimbabwe-esque policy sees the country’s debt mountain reach unimaginable heights, adding $1 trillion under one month.

⁠African Bitcoin Trading Volume Breaks 2017’s Record Ahead of Halving Peer-to-peer Bitcoin trade in Sub-Saharan Africa has rallied, surpassing the previous combined volume record posted at the heights of 2017’s rally.

⁠Top Facts on China’s Crypto Yuan and Related Blockchain Projects As China stops the spread of COVID-19 inside the country, the government announced two of the largest crypto and blockchain-related developments.

⁠Crypto Price Oracles Are About to Become “Unstoppable” A Chainlink node operator has moved its data to a new "unstoppable" domain on the Ethereum blockchain.

⁠Tron Foundation Reportedly Tapped US COVID-19 Business Relief Program for $2M The Tron Foundation is once again mired in controversy over an unverified claim that it secured a $2 million grant from a federal relief prog…

⁠Bison Trails Announces Support for Celo Platform A founding member of the Celo Alliance for Prosperity has added the Celo protocol to their platform.

⁠TON Community Launches Free Version of Telegram Open Blockchain Free TON Blockchain and tokens are launching today by the decentralized community, which claims that Telegram needs to step away from the project.

⁠Report: Square’s CashApp and Grayscale Consumed Over 50% of Bitcoin Mined Q1 202 Square’s Cash App and Grayscale absorbed over half of the Bitcoins mined in the first three months of 2020, according to a May 7 report.

⁠Wall St Veteran Launches Crypto-Powered Social Network and Marketplace Serial entrepreneur Jenny Ta has launched a crypto-powered social media network and marketplace platform that promises it won’t sell users' data.