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Afroman has been officially confirmed as a speaker at Bitcoin 2026. Born Joseph Foreman, the Grammy-nominated rapper best known for his 2001 hit “Because I Got High” arrives in Las Vegas this April not just as an artist, but as someone who spent three years in court defending his right to say what happened to him. In August 2022, law enforcement officers from the Adams County, Ohio Sheriff’s Office raided his home on suspicion of drug trafficking and kidnapping. Nothing illegal was found, and no charges were filed. Afroman did what artists do and he made music about it. Using…

Earlier today, the Trump administration said the US could “be done” in Iran within 2-3 weeks. The market-wide volatility fueled by the major developments in the war against Iran continues, as bitcoin just tapped a multi-day peak of almost $69,000 after dropping to $66,000 yesterday. The latest leg up coincided with reports citing information from the White House that US President Donald Trump will drop a major update on the hot topic later today. BREAKING: President Trump will deliver an address to the nation on Wednesday at 9 PM ET to give “an important update on Iran.” — The Kobeissi…

A first-of-its-kind municipal bond backed by bitcoin is moving closer to issuance after receiving a sub-investment-grade rating from Moody’s Investors Service, marking a major step in the convergence of digital assets and traditional public finance. The proposed $100 million issuance, structured by the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority (BFA), earned a Ba2 rating — two notches below investment grade, according to Bloomberg reporting. If completed, the deal would represent the first municipal bond backed by bitcoin collateral, opening a potential new pathway for institutional capital to access the asset class through regulated fixed-income markets. Under the proposed structure, bond payments…

The US commodities regulator’s chief enforcement director sent a cautionary message to prediction market insider traders on Tuesday, vowing that violators will face enforcement action.“We are aware of the speculation about insider trading,” CFTC enforcement director David Miller said at a panel at New York University on Tuesday. “We are watching.”“There’s a myth in mainstream media and social media that insider trading doesn’t apply in the prediction markets … That is wrong.”Miller, a former federal prosecutor who was appointed to the position on March 2, said the Commission will use its prosecutorial discretion and will not dedicate resources to “trivial”…

There’s a hole in Russia’s finances, and it’s becoming too big for the Kremlin to ignore.In September, the government set a budget deficit cap of $46 billion for 2026.The problem? The deficit already stood at 91% by the end of February, Russian media outlet Vyberu wrote, with pundits blaming a 50% drop in oil and gas revenues.Rising oil and gas prices may help alleviate some of the pain. But belts clearly need to be tightened in Moscow. That’s why the Ministry of Finance has made preventing capital from leaking overseas its major priority this year, starting with crypto.“[The Moscow Exchange]…

Since Bitcoin’s all-time high of $127,000 in October 2025, the first quarter of 2026 has gotten off to a shaky start, with Bitcoin crashing to a $60,000 floor in under five months. While this whiplash may be painful, it looks worse than it really is: the market is actually doing exactly what it needs to do to build a stronger cycle ahead.Crypto tends to bear the brunt of the selloff when macro conditions, geopolitical tensions and traditional markets turn south. Several converging factors are currently driving immense pressure on crypto markets: elevated counterparty risk, global liquidity tightening, weak technical trends,…

Bitcoin’s recent price action confirms a clear structural breakdown, ending weeks of compression and shifting momentum to the downside. While a short-term bounce remains possible as price fills nearby imbalances, the broader outlook stays bearish. Unless key resistance levels are quickly reclaimed, any upside move is likely to be temporary, with further downside pressure expected. Rising Channel Breakdown Signals Shift In Structure According to a BTC update by crypto analyst Columbus, the market structure has finally broken down after weeks of compression. Price had been coiling within a rising channel, forming higher lows that pressed into overhead resistance. Instead of…

Measured in ETH rather than dollars, Lido’s total value locked fell from 9.63 million ETH to 8.81 million ETH. Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, closed 2025 with total revenue of $40.5 million, down 23% from $52.4 million the year before, according to an execution report published by the Lido Foundation. The DAO is now reviewing an automated LDO token buyback mechanism, with the deployment targeted for Q2 2026, as part of a broader effort to align the governance token’s value with the protocol’s financial performance. A Difficult Year for Staking Revenue In the report, Lido noted that…

Goods offered on Xinbi included stolen personal data, money laundering tools, and satellite equipment to contact fraud victims. Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has sanctioned the Chinese-language crypto marketplace Xinbi, which blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says processed nearly $20 billion in volume between 2021 and 2025. The designation means that the UK government isn’t just targeting individual scammers but has taken aim at the financial infrastructure that keeps Southeast Asia’s industrial-scale fraud operations running. The Platform’s Role in the Scam Supply Chain According to Chainalysis, Xinbi is a peer-to-peer marketplace, mostly on Telegram, where criminals can buy and…

A new working paper from the European Central Bank examined four major protocols and found that a small number of actors control the bulk of governance token holdings.A European Central Bank working paper challenges the notion that decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) deliver on their promise of distributed governance, finding that token holdings and voting power across four major DeFi protocols are heavily concentrated among a handful of actors.The study examined governance structures at Aave, MakerDAO, Ampleforth, and Uniswap using data from late 2022 and mid-2023. The researchers analyzed the top 100 token holders and top 20 voters for each protocol,…