📊 As a result of the latest recalculation, Bitcoin mining difficulty increased by 1.42% to 123.23 T. The average hash rate decreased by 22.2% from 883.03 EH/s to 687.39 EH/s.

Current hash price is $44.01.

🔍 Glassnode reports Bitcoin long-term holders remain in profit, but $BTC top buyers may face rising losses as they shift to LTH status.

📊 Analysis of asset changes after the announcement of tariffs in the USA

Gold: growth +12.9%
Bitcoin: fall -16.7% (recovery from the minimum -26.7%)
Nasdaq: decline -17.5%
S&P500: decline -13.8%
US dollar: -4.8%

📊 Strategy has returned 2,466% since the Bitcoin Standard Era, outperforming Nvidia, Tesla, Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

🔍 Pictured is the largest monetary experiment of the millennium - a comparison of the annual production of gold and bitcoin.

💸 💬 Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich defends Bitcoin treasury strategy amid shareholder concerns over stock price decline of more than 30% in the past month.

"Metaplanet's goal is to create long-term corporate value, not to profit from short-term stock price fluctuations. We're just getting started," he wrote.

Metaplanet has 4,855 BTC on its balance sheet, mostly purchased through the sale of debt bonds.

❗️Bitcoin hits $90,000 +

📊 Investment products linked to digital activities have seen modest inflows of $6 million over the past week, reflecting mixed sentiment during the period.

💸 Satoshi Nakamoto now hold over $100,000,000,000 in Bitcoin, according to reports.

🐋 💸 The firm Twenty One Capital, founded by Cantor Fitzgerald, plans to compete with Strategy — its authorized capital will amount to 42,000 BTC ($3.9 billion), of which Tether will provide 23,950 BTC, Softbank will contribute 10,500 BTC, and Bitfinex will add 7,000 BTC. In return, partners will receive shares at a price of $10 each, based on a BTC valuation of $85,000. The company will be led by Jack Mallers, the founder of Strike.

Twenty One Capital intends to go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker XXI through a merger with Cantor Equity Partners, raising $385 million through bonds and $200 million through the sale of shares.

The company claims that its model is more advantageous for investors than that of Strategy. With 42,000 BTC on its balance sheet, it will become the third-largest Bitcoin holder among public companies.

📊 💸 Fidelity: The supply of #BTC on exchanges is decreasing due to purchases by their listed companies—a trend that is expected to intensify in the near future.

💸 ✴️ BTC is seeing the strongest demand from buyers — CryptoQuant.

💸 Ecoinometrics reports largest inflows into Bitcoin ETFs, April 21-23, amid mixed movement with NASDAQ.

📊 Last week, total net inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs exceeded $3 billion.

🪙 Sixteen months after the launch of its spot Bitcoin ETF, Grayscale's GBTC continues to dominate, generating about $268 million in annual revenue — more than all other Bitcoin ETFs combined ($211 million).

🪙 Bitcoin growth is driven by institutions — Bitwise

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley reported that despite Bitcoin’s growth above $94,000, the number of “Bitcoin” searches on Google remains at multi-year lows.

According to him, this indicates that the market is currently moving not due to retail investors, but due to the activity of institutional players: funds, corporations and states.

🗽Arizona has become the first US state to pass a BTC reserve bill that allows up to 10% of state funds to be invested in digital assets like BTC. The bill now needs to pass Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs' desk to be signed into law.

🪙 Bitcoin rose 14.2% in April, its best monthly performance since November 2024.

📢 🇺🇸 Interesting takes were shared in yesterday's interview with the U.S. Secretary of Commerce:

⚫️Bitcoin should be considered a commodity, alongside oil and gold.

⚫️The U.S. government supports Bitcoin, and both Donald Trump and David Sachs have long been advocates of crypto.

⚫️Trump has already signed an order to create a strategic reserve of Bitcoin.

⚫️Limited issuance is the key value of BTC.

⚫️ The U.S. will develop mining and build new data centers, while the Department of Commerce is launching a new investment accelerator to support these initiatives.

It is very important for such takes to be voiced as often as possible, and for pro-crypto officials to increase in number — they are the ones shaping the legislative framework for the development of the industry and attracting institutional investors.

🪙 🇯🇵 Japan's Metaplanet Launches US Subsidiary

Metaplanet Treasury Corp. is registered in Florida with $10 million in capital. The structure will follow the Bitcoin treasury strategy of its parent company and plans to raise $250 million for this purpose.

🪙 ❗️ $97,000 Bitcoin