🇯🇵 Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) plans to change the status of cryptocurrency — shifting it from a payment method to a financial product.

This decision is driven by the rise in crypto industry fraud.

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🇺🇸 Hut 8 and Eric Trump have launched a new mining company in the US — the project is exclusively focused on Bitcoin mining and building a cryptocurrency reserve.

American Bitcoin will be a public company and plans to increase its hashrate to 50 EH/s with an energy efficiency of less than 15 J/TH.

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🇺🇸 Elon Musk plans to leave the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the end of May.

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🇰🇵 North Korean IT specialists, posing as freelancers, are actively infiltrating European blockchain companies — posing a risk of espionage, data leaks, and cyberattacks, especially in blockchain and AI sectors.

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🇯🇵 Japan's second-largest bank SMBC eyes stablecoin launch with Ava Lab.

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🇮🇳 Indian public company Jetking to raise money to purchase Bitcoin.

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🇺🇸 $6 trillion asset manager Fidelity launches retirement plan allowing direct crypto investments.

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⚡️ 🇺🇸 Donald Trump announced the introduction of "reciprocal tariffs" of 10% for all countries, as well as a 25% tariff on all imported cars.

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🇧🇷 Brazil’s largest bank, Itaú Unibanco, is planning to launch its own stablecoin.

This comes shortly after news that Brazil is considering a law that would allow employers to pay salaries in cryptocurrency.

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🇺🇸 Over $1.65 trillion wiped out from US stock market at open.

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🇨🇳 Chinese company Cango, specializing in automotive services, has sold its China-based business for $352 million to restructure itself as a Bitcoin mining company.

The new owner of the business will be Bitmain, which will provide Cango with mining power of 32 exahashes per second.

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