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New APNIC director general steps up to steer the internet for 4 billion users 2025-04-28 at 00:18 By Simon Sharwood Jia Rong Low hopes to make registries interesting again Interview  Before you get to know Jia Rong Low, the recently appointed director general of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), you might want to…

Ethereum community members propose new fee structure for the app layer 2025-04-28 at 00:02 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill Two Ethereum community members, Kevin Owocki and Devansh Mehta, proposed a dynamic fee structure for the Ethereum application layer to strike a balance between revenue generation for app builders and fairness in fee extraction. The April…

Federal taxes to be ‘substantially reduced’ once tariffs set in: Trump 2025-04-27 at 21:00 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill United States President Donald Trump recently said that federal income taxes would be “substantially reduced” or potentially eliminated once the tariff regime fully sets in. In an April 27 Truth Social post, Trump added that the…

DARPA to ‘radically’ rev up mathematics research. And yes, with AI 2025-04-27 at 20:46 By Thomas Claburn Now that’s a sum of all fears The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, aka DARPA, believes mathematics isn’t advancing fast enough.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

The cost of innovation — Regulations are Web3’s greatest asset 2025-04-27 at 18:04 By Cointelegraph by Hedi Navazan Opinion by: Hedi Navazan, chief compliance officer at 1inch Web3 needs a clear regulatory system that addresses innovation bottlenecks and user safety in decentralized finance (DeFi). A one-size-fits-all approach cannot be achieved to regulate DeFi. The industry…

Michael Saylor hints at Bitcoin purchase as whales stack aggressively 2025-04-27 at 18:04 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Whales and large institutions continue their aggressive Bitcoin accumulation, with Strategy hinting at another Bitcoin investment that may be announced on Monday. Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor hinted at another imminent Bitcoin (BTC) investment on April 27, a…

Bitcoin treasury firms driving $200T hyperbitcoinization — Adam Back 2025-04-27 at 14:05 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Investment firms with Bitcoin-focused treasuries are front-running global Bitcoin adoption, which may see the world’s first cryptocurrency soar to a $200 trillion market capitalization in the coming decade. Institutions and governments worldwide are starting to recognize the unique…

Bitcoiner TJ Miller says ‘50-hour’ rule is why celebs stay off orange pill 2025-04-27 at 12:03 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Comedian and actor TJ Miller says it only takes a little over two full days to get the average person up to speed on Bitcoin. However, when asked why more celebrities aren’t Bitcoiners, he…

Bitcoin trades at ‘40% discount’ as spot BTC ETF buying soars to $3B in one week 2025-04-27 at 10:01 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Key takeaways: Data suggests that Bitcoin currently trades at a 40% discount. Over 36,000 Bitcoin were withdrawn from Coinbase and Binance on April 25. Bitcoin’s fractal pattern from Q4 2024 could…

Bitcoin ‘power law’ model forecasts $200K BTC price in 2025 2025-04-27 at 09:01 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Key takeaways: Based on power curve trends, Bitcoin may hit $200,000 in Q4 2025. Bitcoin follows gold’s price trend with a 100-150 day lag. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has rallied 11% this week, its best weekly return in…

Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers 2025-04-27 at 08:33 By Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year. “The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool…

US crypto rules like ‘floor is lava’ game without lights — Hester Peirce 2025-04-27 at 08:03 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons SEC Commissioner and head of the crypto task force, Hester Peirce, says US financial firms are navigating crypto in a way that’s similar to playing the children’s game “the floor is lava,” but in…

Majority of Americans trust what’s online less than ever before: poll 2025-04-27 at 01:51 By SWNS A survey of 2,000 U.S. adults found that skepticism is at an all-time high when it comes to the internet. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source…

Solana’s Loopscale pauses lending after $5.8M hack 2025-04-27 at 00:01 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Solana decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Loopscale has temporarily halted its lending markets after suffering an approximately $5.8 million exploit.  On April 26, a hacker siphoned approximately 5.7 million USDC (USDC) and 1200 Solana (SOL) from the lending protocol after taking…

Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims 2025-04-26 at 20:44 By Thomas Claburn One eight-person publisher says it’ll be forced to pay $1.5M WORLD WAR FEE  The Trump administration’s tariffs are famously raising the prices of high-ticket products with lots of chips, like iPhones and cars, but they’re also…

US Senator calls for Trump impeachment, cites memecoin dinner 2025-04-26 at 20:11 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell United States Senator Jon Ossoff expressed support for impeaching President Donald Trump during an April 25 town hall, citing the President’s plan to host a private dinner for top Official Trump memecoin holders.  “I mean, I saw just…

Countries must add DePIN tokens to their digital asset stockpiles 2025-04-26 at 18:16 By Cointelegraph by Raullen Chai Opinion by: Raullen Chai, co-founder and CEO of IoTeX The United States and other superpowers are on the brink of a financial evolution. With President Donald Trump’s recent executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) and…

Crypto sentiment recovers, but weekend liquidity risks remain 2025-04-26 at 17:16 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Crypto investor sentiment has seen a significant recovery from global tariff concerns, but analysts warn that the market’s structural weaknesses may still result in downside momentum during periods of weekend illiquidity. Risk appetite appeared to return among crypto investors…

DeFi Development seeks $1B to boost Solana investments, expand treasury 2025-04-26 at 16:04 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai DeFi Development Corp (formerly Janover) aims to raise over $1 billion worth of capital to invest in Solana, the industry’s sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The Nasdaq-listed firm, previously a real estate financing platform connecting commercial property…

Trump’s WLFI crypto investments aren’t paying off 2025-04-26 at 16:04 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto firm associated with the family of US President Donald Trump, made waves when it debuted late last year. WLFI caused a stir when it launched ahead of the president’s inauguration. Observers have accused the…

Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a $2 USB key 2025-04-26 at 15:32 By Liam Proven Reg hack pines for simpler times, then tries to recapture them Sometimes, the size and complexity of modern OSes – even the FOSS ones – is enough to make us miss the days when an entire…

ToyMaker Uses LAGTOY to Sell Access to CACTUS Ransomware Gangs for Double Extortion 2025-04-26 at 14:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the activities of an initial access broker (IAB) dubbed ToyMaker that has been observed handing over access to double extortion ransomware gangs like CACTUS. The IAB has been assessed with medium confidence to be…

Deloitte predicts $4T tokenized real estate on blockchain by 2035 2025-04-26 at 14:03 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Over $4 trillion worth of real estate could be tokenized on blockchain networks during the next decade, potentially offering investors greater access to property ownership opportunities, according to a new report. The Deloitte Center for Financial Services…

UK bans game controller exports to Russia in bid to ground drone attacks 2025-04-26 at 13:51 By Dan Robinson Moscow likely to respawn elsewhere The British government is banning the export of video game controllers to Russia, claiming these can be repurposed for piloting drones on the frontline in Ukraine.… This article is an excerpt…

Crypto banking rule withdrawal by Fed ‘not real progress’ — Senator Lummis 2025-04-26 at 12:20 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons United States Senator Cynthia Lummis suggests the crypto industry may be celebrating too soon over the US Federal Reserve softening its crypto guidance for banks. “The Fed withdrawing crypto guidance is just noise, not real…

AI-powered 20 foot robots coming for construction workers’ jobs 2025-04-26 at 11:36 By Dan Robinson Er, are we sure we want to outsource the welding? Rise of the machines  Construction workers could soon find themselves laboring alongside 20-foot (6 meter) tall AI-powered autonomous robots capable of welding, carpentry, and 3D printing buildings. What could possibly…

Bitcoin ETFs on $3B ‘bender,’ notch first full inflow week in 5 weeks 2025-04-26 at 09:06 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) in the United States saw over $3 billion in inflows this week, marking the first full week of consecutive inflows in five weeks. On April 25, the 11 spot…

Bitcoiner Jack Mallers assures Strike investors, Twenty One won’t distract 2025-04-26 at 06:12 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Strike CEO Jack Mallers said his new role as CEO of Bitcoin treasury firm Twenty One Capital won’t distract him from heading Strike, revealing the platform processed over $6 billion in volume in 2024. “This is not…

Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed 2025-04-26 at 03:32 By Jessica Lyons Infosec is a team sport … unless you’re in the White House Opinion  Just when it seems they couldn’t be that careless, US officials tasked with defending the nation go and do something else…

Price predictions 4/25: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, SUI, LINK, AVAX 2025-04-26 at 02:10 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Key points: Bitcoin price pushed above $95,000, increasing the chance of a rally to $100,000. Institutional investor demand is back, suggesting that the bearish trend could be over. Select altcoins could break above their…

Amid CVE funding fumble, ‘we were mushrooms, kept in the dark,’ says board member 2025-04-26 at 01:28 By Jessica Lyons What next for US-bankrolled vulnerability tracker? It’s edging closer to a more independent, global future Kent Landfield, a founding member of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and member of the board, learned through…

Semler Scientific buys another $10M worth of BTC 2025-04-26 at 00:04 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Semler Scientific has bought approximately $10 million worth of Bitcoin since Feb. 14, the healthcare technology company said in an April 25 statement.  The company purchased 111 Bitcoin (BTC) for $10 million at an average price of roughly $90,000…

SEC chair suggests ‘huge benefits’ in agency’s third crypto roundtable 2025-04-26 at 00:04 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright In one of his first appearances as the recently sworn-in chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Atkins delivered remarks to the agency’s third roundtable discussion of crypto regulation.  In the “Know Your Custodian” roundtable…

Crypto Biz: Cantor Fitzgerald crypto play, ETF inflows highlight industry’s big sentiment shift 2025-04-25 at 23:03 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi US President Donald Trump’s first 90 days in office have been miserable for Bitcoin (BTC) and the broader cryptocurrency industry. Despite positive regulatory developments, culminating in the first-ever White House crypto summit on March…

Nasdaq urges SEC to treat certain digital assets as ‘stocks by any other name’ 2025-04-25 at 23:03 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Nasdaq has urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to hold digital assets to the same regulatory standards as securities if they constitute “stocks by any other name,” according to an April…

More Ivanti attacks may be on horizon, say experts who are seeing 9x surge in endpoint scans 2025-04-25 at 22:25 By Connor Jones GreyNoise says it is the kind of activity that typically precedes new vulnerability disclosures Ivanti VPN users should stay alert as IP scanning for the vendor’s Connect Secure and Pulse Secure systems…

BlackRock, five others account for 88% of all tokenized treasury issuance 2025-04-25 at 22:01 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino New data from RWA.xyz, a platform tracking tokenized real-world assets, shows that six entities are responsible for 88% of all tokenized US Treasurys. The data suggests a concentration among a few funds as the market continues…

Crypto firms launch Wall Street-style funds: Finance Redefined 2025-04-25 at 22:01 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Cryptocurrency firms and centralized exchanges are launching more traditional investment offerings, bridging the divide between traditional financial and digital assets. With investors seeking more flexible product offerings under one platform, the “line is blurring” between traditional finance (TradFi) and…

If Trump fired Powell, what would happen to crypto? 2025-04-25 at 21:04 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Brogan Recent months have seen the ebb and flow of a certain pattern: US President Donald Trump will take some objectively harmful action to the US economy, and the markets will crash. Seeing this, Trump has turned to Jerome…

Oh, cool. Microsoft melts bug that froze Server 2025 Remote Desktop sessions 2025-04-25 at 21:04 By Iain Thomson Where have we heard this before? Feb security update needs its own fix More than one month after complaints starting flying, Microsoft has fixed a Windows bug that caused some Remote Desktop sessions to freeze.… This article…

Chinese electric car giant BYD’s profit doubles as it continues to cruise past rival, Elon Musk’s Tesla 2025-04-25 at 20:57 By Thomas Barrabi Chinese electric car maker BYD’s net profit swelled to $1.3 billion in the first quarter as it continues to surge past its key rival, Elon Musk’s Tesla. This article is an excerpt…