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* TRUMP: “CRYPTOCURRENCIES COULD BE THE GREATEST REVOLUTION IN FINANCE SINCE THE INTERNET”.
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian claims that Iran wants to end the war. They only want a guarantee from the United States to move forward with the end of the armed conflict.
The markets, logically, react positively. Bitcoin rises nearly 2% and goes over 67,500 dollars.
* The average commissions paid to Bitcoin miners have fallen to their lowest since 2011, according to data from Glassnode.
* After the movement of the last few weeks, Bitcoin has retreated to the “FIRE SALE” zone, a level that historically has represented a very interesting accumulation zone.
* There are already 6 banks in Spain authorized to operate with cryptocurrencies. CaixaBank became the most recent financial entity to obtain authorization as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) under the MiCA regulation.
The bank joins BBVA, Openbank (Santander Group), Cecabank, Renta 4 Banco, and Kutxabank as accredited institutions to provide buying, selling, and custody services.
* The United States Senate has confirmed that the CLARITY Act will be put to a vote in April.
* Changpeng Zhao, founder of Binance:
"Fundamentally: It is always easier to encrypt than to decrypt. Greater processing power is always beneficial. Cryptocurrencies will continue to exist after the quantum era."
* Elon Musk on the quantum threat to Bitcoin:
"On the positive side, if you forgot your wallet password, you will be able to access it in the future."
* The president of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, warns that the US national debt is growing “substantially” faster than the economy and says it is not sustainable.
“It will not end well if we do not do something pretty soon.”
* Nakamoto Holdings sold 284 bitcoin for about 20 million dollars, assuming losses of 40% to gain liquidity amid doubts about its financial situation.
* The US Department of Labor proposes to open 401k RETIREMENT plans, valued at 10 TRILLION dollars, to cryptocurrencies and "alternative investments."
* Bitcoin is under tension due to the deployment of 50,000 US soldiers in the Middle East. The price of BTC is wobbling, currently just above 66,000 dollars.
* Hackers expose data from BCRA and 27 institutions in Argentina. The hacktivist group Chronus Team claimed to have executed 28 simultaneous data breaches in strategic state institutions in Argentina.
* Bolivia already has more than 100 businesses that accept Bitcoin. Adoption continues to rise in the South American country.
* Bitcoin is running out of time to shield itself against quantum threats, according to Google Quantum AI, which estimates that the underlying algorithm of the elliptic curve cryptography used by Bitcoin could be broken with less power than previously thought. $BTC