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🩸$526M in BTC shorts liquidated in 24 hours Bitcoin rallied from $74K to $78K and the move had all the hallmarks of a classic short squeeze. At 13:00 UTC alone, the market absorbed a single $357M shor

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SEC charges Bitcoin Latinum founder over alleged $16M investor fraud The US SEC brought enforcement action against Donald G. Basile and his companies, GIBF GP, Inc. and Monsoon Blockchain Corporation,

SEC charges Bitcoin Latinum founder over alleged $16M investor fraud

The US SEC brought enforcement action against Donald G. Basile and his companies, GIBF GP, Inc. and Monsoon Blockchain Corporation, over a $16 million crypto securities offering tied to Bitcoin Latinum (LTNM), which Basile launched in 2020.

According to the SEC, Basile, through GIBF and Monsoon, sold Simple Agreements for Future Tokens (SAFTs), promising future delivery of a token called Bitcoin Latinum, which ultimately failed.

Regulators claim Basile misrepresented key aspects of the project, including nonexistent insurance coverage, false claims of asset backing, and misleading statements about how investor funds would be used to support the token ecosystem.

The SEC also alleges that rather than using investor funds as promised, the entrepreneur misappropriated millions for personal uses, including real estate purchases, credit card payments, and a high-value horse.

The project ultimately failed. LTNM was never properly launched or listed on major exchanges, activity ceased, and the token became worthless, leaving investors with major losses.

The SEC charges GIBF and Monsoon with violating the anti-fraud provisions of federal securities laws and that Basile is directly liable as well as responsible for aiding the violations.

The SEC is seeking permanent injunctions, repayment of ill-gotten gains with interest, civil penalties, and a ban preventing Basile from serving as an officer or director of a public company, along with other equitable remedies.



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Quantum computing has long served as Bitcoin’s most cinematic threat. It has the right ingredients for a high-drama warning, strange machines, broken cryptography, and the possibility of a future rewrite of digital trust.

Yet the greater danger facing Bitcoin today looks far more ordinary and far more commercial. It is artificial intelligence, and the pressure point is electricity.

That pressure is already visible. As of today, Bitcoin is trading at $77,845 on CryptoSlate, up 5% over 24 hours, 6.7% over seven days, and 9.2% over 30 days.

Price has recovered over the past month, but the mining side of the network is still operating under tighter economics than the market’s casual surface suggests.

In its Q1 2026 mining report, CoinShares said the weighted average cash cost to produce one Bitcoin among publicly listed miners rose to about $79,995 in Q4 2025. The same report said the current hashprice around $30 per petahash per day leaves an estimated 15% to 20% of the global fleet underwater if power costs are high enough.

That is where AI enters the picture with a much sharper edge than quantum. Quantum remains a serious long-term cryptographic issue. NIST has already finalized its first post-quantum standards because the migration clock is real, and IBM’s roadmap targets the first large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029.

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The $LILPEPE token is currently witnessing a rise in demand as the project is in the final selling phase of its ongoing presale. The project, having crossed the $28 million milestone, is still witness

Little Pepe ($LILPEPE) Builds Strong Momentum as Presale Enters Final Selling Phase

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On the 18th local time, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Katibzadeh stated that the messages from the U.S. are "contradictory and vague," and that the specific date for the next round of negotiations h

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Says Date for Next Round of Talks with U.S. Not Yet Determined

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Bitcoin rallied hard after Iran said it was reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping.

Bitcoin hit the highest level since February, oil prices dropped, Wall Street notched another record, and the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield slipped to 4.24%. But here’s the catch: markets acted as if the reopening had solved the core standoff between Washington and Tehran.

Look closer, though, and the story gets more complicated. The opening is only temporary, the blockade is still in place, mine-clearing operations are ongoing, and there’s plenty of confusion about what Iran has actually agreed to.

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HTX Community Spring Creation ContestClaim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengePIPPIN surges 16% and hits key resistance, with price action signaling a potential sharp reversal at a critical le

PIPPIN surges 16% and hits key resistance, with price action signaling a potential sharp reversal at a critical level.



The risk of a potential price decline in Solana-based Pippin (PIPPIN) continues to rise, even after rallying 16% over the past 24 hours.

As of the 17th of April, while the broader crypto market continues to struggle, PIPPIN has posted notable gains and reached a key reversal zone where it has historically faced selling pressure.

At press time, PIPPIN was trading at $0.0355, up 16.05% over the past 24 hours. It also recorded an intraday high of $0.04273 during the same period.

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The asset’s notable price surge appears to have attracted significant market participation, as reflected in trading volume, which jumped over 95% to $51.02 million.



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On April 18, the spot Bitcoin ETF recorded approximately $996 million in net inflows last week, marking the strongest weekly performance in three months and indicating a notable recovery in market ris

Spot Bitcoin ETF Attracts Nearly $1 Billion in a Week as Risk Appetite Rebounds

HTX Community Spring Creation ContestClaim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeThere was a spike in profit taking by whales that could derail bulls' attempt to move beyond $75K.The U.S. governm

There was a spike in profit taking by whales that could derail bulls' attempt to move beyond $75K.The U.S. government moved $606K in Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime on Thursday, the 16th of April.

Although it was not clear whether the transfer was meant for a sell-off or custody purposes, similar past moves were associated with FUD and bearish sentiment.

According to Arkham data, this was part of the 94,643 BTC seized from the 2016 Bitfinex hack. 





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Stanford's 2026 Al Index shows the performance gap between US and Chinese Al models has compressed to just 2.7%, down from a double-digit lead as recently as 2023, as Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 holds a 39-point Elo lead over ByteDance's best-performing model on the benchmarks Stanford tracks. Summary The 423-page report, released April 14, finds that the US and Chinese models have traded first place multiple times since early 2025, with DeepSeek-R1 briefly matching the top US model in February 2025 before being surpassed. The US leads China in private Al investment ($285.9 billion vs $12.4 billion) and notable model production (50 vs 30 in 2025), while China leads in Al publication volume, patent output, and industrial robot installations. The number of Al researchers entering the US has dropped 89% over seven years and 80% in the past year alone, a trend the report attributes in part to H-1B restrictions under the Trump administration. Stanford's 2026 Al Index, released April 14, documents the near-disappearance of the US performance advantage in artificial intelligence, with the top American model leading the best Chinese model by just 2.7% on the Arena Leaderboard benchmarks Stanford tracks as of March 2026. The 423-page report from Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Al puts the specific figures starkly: in 2023, performance gaps between leading US and Chinese models ranged from 17.5 to 31.6 percentage points on major benchmarks including MMLU, MATH, and HumanEval

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