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💰 Bitcoin’s Recent Weakness Is More Tied to Global Markets Than to Anything Crypto Specific, Coinbase Says Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent weakness has not been isolated to crypto markets and therefore is not indicative of sector-specific capitulation, Coinbase (COIN) said in a research report Friday. Coinbase notes that both equities and gold have been trading lower since reaching highs in mid-April, against the backdrop of a strengthening dollar. The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell 16% in April, in the biggest monthly decline since June 2022. Source https://t.me/Blockchain_Explained

💰 Terraform Labs' lawyers push back against 🇺🇸 SEC, argue token sales were mostly outside US Lawyers for Terraform Labs pushed back against the Securities and Exchange Commission after the agency requested them to pay billions of dollars in fines. Terraform's offer and sales of tokens happened "almost entirely outside the U.S." the firm's lawyers argued in a brief filed on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the SEC has argued that the firm "targeted U.S. investors" and says they should pay $5.3 billion in fines, most of that being in disgorgement. Source https://t.me/Blockchain_Explained

💰 Bitcoin options positioning anticipates summer slowdown, analyst says Bitcoin derivatives traders are positioning themselves for a summer lull in market activity, according to an analyst. According to Kooner, bitcoin implied volatility has dropped significantly since mid-April. This can also be seen in charts from The Block's Data Dashboard, which show the implied volatility of bitcoin at-the-money options falling from over 77% to under 60% for one week, one month and multi-month expires. Source https://t.me/Blockchain_Explained

🔵 Coinbase Adds Support for 🥇 Bitcoin Lightning Network The largest American cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, has added support for the Lightning Network on its platform to enable faster and cheaper payments. According to a blog post, the Lightning Network integration on Coinbase will reduce the cost of sending bitcoin (BTC) globally by 20x compared to the 2% charged on United States credit card transactions and the $30 paid for wire transfers. Source https://t.me/Blockchain_Explained

💰 Bitcoin faces potential miner capitulation as hash rate continues to drop The price of Bitcoin has tumbled from its highs of around $73,500 to below $57,000, and as a result of this, further hash rate drops are expected. Luxor’s “hashprice” metric, which quantifies the expected value of 1 TH/s of hashing power per day, currently sits at a five-year low of $0.045 per terahash/second per day. If this trend persists, the digital asset community may witness a miner capitulation event, where Bitcoin mining becomes too expensive relative to the cost of mining. Source https://t.me/Blockchain_Explained

🇺🇸 McHenry slams Gensler for misleading Congress about 🪙 Ethereum’s classification House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry has accused SEC Chair Gary Gensler of misleading Congress concerning the classification of Ethereum during his testimony in April 2023. The accusation comes amid escalating tensions over the regulatory approach to digital assets in recent months, with some industry participants filing lawsuits against the watchdog for overstepping its authority. Source https://t.me/Blockchain_Explained

💰 Bitcoin's 61-Day Streak Above $60K Threatened, $271M in Liquidations as BTC Nears Critical Threshold Bitcoin prices experienced a notable decline on Tuesday, dropping more than 2% against the U.S. dollar in the last 24 hours, following a 7.8% decrease over the previous week. Global trading volumes on spot crypto exchanges have remained subdued, and in the past day, derivatives exchanges saw $271 million in both short and long positions liquidated. Source https://t.me/Blockchain_Explained

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🇭🇰 Hong Kong Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs expected to outperform US counterparts’ volume on day 1 Hong Kong braces for the debut of its first spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, expectations are soaring that the initial trading volumes will eclipse those witnessed during similar launches in the US, local media reported on April 29. Huaxia Fund Management (Hong Kong), along with digital asset service provider OSL, are spearheading the launch of these ETFs, which are set to go live on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on April 30. Source https://t.me/Blockchain_Explained

📊 Tether, USDC and DAI transaction volume surpasses Visa's 2023 monthly average: Nansen Crypto's three largest stablecoins — Tether , USDC and DAI — have seen higher volumes in the past 30 days than Visa’s average monthly total from last year, according to onchain specialist Nansen. Nansen data showed that the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, Tether, processed $654 billion in the past 30 days, while DAI managed over $394 billion of flows and USDC saw $321 billion in trading volume. Source https://t.me/Blockchain_Explained