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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeHTX Community Spring Creation ContestGOATVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used one of his most confrontational v

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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used one of his most confrontational videos in recent memory to argue that Bitcoin’s long-running resistance to structural change has left it exposed to the quantum computing threat now surfacing in debate around BIP 361. His core claim was blunt: Bitcoin’s governance culture, not just its cryptography, is now the problem.

In the livestream, titled “BIP 361: Welcome to ShitcoinLand, Bitcoin,” Hoskinson framed the proposal as an overdue admission from parts of the Bitcoin world that quantum risk is no longer theoretical. The Cardano founder pointed to language in the proposal stating that, as of March 1, 2026, more than 34% of all Bitcoin had revealed public keys on-chain, leaving those UTXOs vulnerable to theft by an attacker with a sufficiently powerful quantum computer. In his telling, that amounts to roughly 8 million BTC exposed to a future break in Bitcoin’s current signature assumptions.

BIP-361 proposes freezing every bitcoin that doesn’t migrate to a quantum-safe address within five years of activation. If you’re incapacitated, in prison, or simply unaware of the deadline, your coins aren’t stolen. They’re frozen by consensus.

The justification: 34% of all... pic.twitter.com/4ValsZTdQD

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Hoskinson’s attack centered on two related claims. First, he argued that the response implied by BIP 361 would require a hard fork, even if described otherwise. Second, he said any forced migration to post-quantum addresses would create a deeper problem for coins held in older wallet formats that cannot be recovered through the kind of proof system he says the proposal imagines.

“There is some truth in here,” Hoskinson said. “As of March 1st, 2026, over 34% of all Bitcoin have revealed public key on chain... those UTXOs c

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used one of his

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Will Markets Break Resistance When $2B Crypto Options Expire Around 22,200 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, April 17, with a notional value of roughly $1.66 billion. This event is a li

Will Markets Break Resistance When $2B Crypto Options Expire 
Around 22,200 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, April 17, with a notional value of roughly $1.66 billion. This event is a little smaller than last week’s expiry, so it is unlikely to have any impact on spot markets.

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestMarket Rally! Claim Your AirdropRetail fear across US equity markets has reached levels not seen in over two decades. The ROBO

Retail fear across US equity markets has reached levels not seen in over two decades. The ROBO Put/Call Ratio has jumped to 1.0 for the first time in at least 20 years. The reading exceeds the 0.91 peak during the 2008 Financial Crisis and the 0.95 reached during the 2020 pandemic selloff. The ratio has doubled since December, marking the sharpest rise since the 2022 bear market began. “This ratio tracks retail opening buy orders in options, with the current reading showing retail traders buying nearly equal amounts of puts and calls...Fear is becoming overdone in this market,” The Kobeissi Letter noted. Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens ROBO Put/Call Ratio at 1.0 in the US Equity Market. Source: X/The Kobeissi Letter Market sentiment is also evidenced by the CNN Fear & Greed Index, which has fallen to 23, placing it at the threshold of extreme fear territory. Bearish Positioning Reaches Rare Extremes The surge comes amid a broad rise in short interest across all major US indexes. According to data from Global Markets Investor, the median short interest for the S&P 500 now stands at approximately 3.7%, its highest level in 11 years. The Nasdaq 100 has reached roughly 2.7% short interest, a 6-year high. The Russell 2000 sits near 5.0%, its highest in 15 years. The last time all three indexes showed such elevated short positioning simultaneously was during the 2010-2011 European debt crisis. That convergence is significant because it suggests bearish conviction extends beyond any single sector or market-cap segment. “All three indexes have seen short interest rise sharply since mid-2024, accelerating further in 2026,” the post added. BeInCrypto recently reported that hedge funds shorted global equities at the most aggressive pace in 13 years, with short sales outpacing long purchases by a ratio of 7.6 to 1. The simultaneous alignment of ext

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On April 17, Wells Fargo Securities presented an optimistic scenario for gold, predicting that after last month's price correction, gold prices could astonishingly soar to $8,000 per ounce. Before the

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Most discussions still frame crypto and traditional finance as separate worlds. But in reality, they’re slowly converging. Stablecoins already bridge fiat and crypto. RWA brings traditional assets on-

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#Crypto has spent years acting like attention and activity are basically the same thing. If traffic surges, the market must be alive. If specialist media cools off, the assumption is that interest is 

#Crypto has spent years acting like attention and activity are basically the same thing. If traffic surges, the market must be alive. If specialist media cools off, the assumption is that interest is cooling off too. It is an easy habit to fall into, especially in an industry that grew up on narratives, cycles, and headlines. Still, 2025 made that habit much harder to defend. A recent Outset Data Pulse report shows a market that kept buzzing even as traffic to crypto-native media moved the other way. The more interesting part is not just that crypto media weakened. It is that the largest crypto audience was still sitting outside crypto-native media altogether. Mainstream Media Held The Real Scale Looking at traffic across 349 outlets tracked through the recently launched Outset Media Index (OMI), the report found that crypto-native media still pulled in more than one billion visits across 2025, which sounds big until you look at how the year actually unfolded. Traffic started at around 106 million visits in January and ended the year at just under 71 million in December. That’s a drop of a bit more than 33%. There were a few moments when things bounced, especially in July, but those bumps were minor. By the time the year was closing out, crypto-native media was clearly drawing less attention than it had at the start. What makes it even more telling is that the audience was still spread all over the place. This was never a market held up by just two or three giant brands. The top ten outlets together made up only about a quarter of total crypto-native traffic, while the long tail, smaller publications most people barely mention in broad media conversations, still carried most of the audience. This was a story about how thinly spread crypto media still is, even when the overall pool gets smaller. Then comes the part that really changes how this story is read. Mainstream financial, tech, and general news sites with regular crypto coverage pulled in close to seven billi

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Grayscale Predicts Elon Musk’s X Could Use Crypto to Power Next Wave of Financial Ecosys

Grayscale Predicts Elon Musk’s X Could Use Crypto to Power Next Wave of Financial Ecosystems



Grayscale forecasts crypto will underpin the next wave of consumer finance as platforms evolve into unified ecosystems. Elon Musk’s X is positioned to benefit, with smart cashtags and planned payments signaling growing momentum for deeper digital asset integration.

Key Takeaways:

Grayscale predicts crypto will anchor future consumer finance platforms.

X is advancing cashtags to integrate trading within social activity.

Platforms like Telegram and Coinbase are accelerating crypto competition.

X Smart Cashtags Drive Financial Ecosystem Expansion

Crypto integration is increasingly shaping the future of multifunctional consumer platforms, signaling a shift toward more unified financial ecosystems. Elon Musk’s X sits at the center of that transition, according to digital asset manager Grayscale Investments’ April 16 analysis. Head of Research Zach Pandl examined the platform’s expanding capabilities, with a focus on smart cashtags and their potential role in broadening financial services within social apps.

Pandl explained how the feature could connect social activity with investing, stating:

“We believe that crypto will play a central role in this evolution.”

The remark refers to X’s shift from a content platform toward a more integrated financial ecosystem. Smart cashtags let users interact with asset tickers such as bitcoin directly within posts, linking conversation with execution. Price data and charts are available in the U.S. and Canada on iPhone, while trading is available in Canada through Wealthsimple.

Musk stated on social media platform X on March 10: “X Money early public access will launch next month.” The post points to near-term plans for the rollout of a payments layer tied to the broader ecosystem. However, Musk has not disclosed wha

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• USD/CNY edged higher on Friday as the yuan slipped slightly but  poised for small weekly gain.•  The yuan has been one of the best-performing emerging market currencies since the outbreak of the Ira

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