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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Former UK Prime Minister sees economy on 'very negative trajectory,' indicates support f

Former UK Prime Minister sees economy on 'very negative trajectory,' indicates support for bitcoin



Liz Truss, the U.K.'s shortest-serving prime minister, said the country's economy has been stagnating for decades and many of the problems result from a lack of sound money and the debasement of the currency, an erosion in the value of sterling caused by inflation and the printing of new banknotes.

Truss, who led a Conservative government for 45 days in 2022, said the financial situation strengthened her interest in bitcoin , which some observers see as a tool against debasement. She said she's "very interested" in the cryptocurrency, which she first encountered when working at the Treasury and mentioned it there "to shake things up." Truss was Chief Secretary to the Treasury for about two years until July 2019.

“A lot of the problems we have are due to debasement of our currency and lack of sound money,” Truss said in an interview with CoinDesk. The absence of serious debate around money in academia and government had become “quite sinister,” and discussions about monetary policy had become “a taboo” within government, despite its central role in driving economic outcomes.

For Truss, bitcoin sits alongside a wider concern about centralization and control. She warned the current system is geared toward increasing “centralized control” and limiting financial independence, particularly through regulation and taxation, and positioned bitcoin as part of a pushback against that trend.

The economy is on a “very negative trajectory,” she said, warning the country faces long-term decline driven by weak growth, rising state control and what she sees as a failure of monetary policy.

“We are getting relatively poorer, very quickly,” she said, pointing to high taxes, regulation and energy costs that make “the risk often not worth the reward” for entrepreneu

Former UK Prime Minister sees economy on 'very neg

The US-based crypto exchange Coinbase has added two little-known crypto assets to its listing roadmap.The exchange says it’s considering adding Diem (DIEM) and Opengradient (OPG) to its platform for s

The US-based crypto exchange Coinbase has added two little-known crypto assets to its listing roadmap.The exchange says it’s considering adding Diem (DIEM) and Opengradient (OPG) to its platform for spot trading.“The launch of trading for these assets is contingent on market-making support, and sufficient technical infrastructure. We will announce the launch of trading separately once these conditions have been met.”DIEM is an ERC-20 token on the Base blockchain from Venice.ai. The coin is designed to tokenize AI compute as an onchain asset, with each token representing $1 per day of renewable, never-expiring access to Venice’s AI models and API capacity.Meanwhile, Opengradient’s OPG is the native token of a decentralized network built for verifiable on-chain AI inference, designed to pay for model executions, stake for security and rewards and govern the protocol.Roadmap inclusion signals that the assets have entered Coinbase’s formal review process. It does not guarantee they will eventually trade on the platform.Generated Image: Midjourney

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Bitcoin 'plebs eat first' mining pool Parasite finds its second BTC block A bitcoin mini

Bitcoin 'plebs eat first' mining pool Parasite finds its second BTC block



A bitcoin mining pool built to reject both the industrial pay-per-share model and the pure lottery approach has now proved its design works. Twice.

Upstart mining pool Parasite Pool mined block 945,601 on Friday morning, its second block since launching in April 2025 and roughly 48 days after the pool's first block at #938,713 in late February.

The block carried 7,398 transactions and 0.002 $BTC in fees, landing with bitcoin trading at $76,213.

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— Parasite Pool (@Parasite_wtf) April 18, 2026

The pool operates on a hybrid model that has no parallel in mainstream mining. A winning miner that solves a block receives 1 $BTC outright, with the remaining 2.125 $BTC plus fees distributed proportionally among all pool participants based on shares submitted since the previous block.

There are no fees to take part in this pool, and payouts are routed through the Lightning Network.

Mining secures bitcoin by having computers compete to solve a cryptographic puzzle every 10 minutes, with the winner earning the right to add the next block of transactions to the blockchain and collecting a reward.

That reward is currently 3.125 $BTC plus whatever transaction fees are bundled in, worth about $238,000 at Friday's price, down from 6.25 $BTC after the April 2024 halving and scheduled to drop again to 1.5625 $BTC in 2028.

The competition is dominated by industrial operators running warehouse-scale facilities of specialized ASIC hardware that pulls enough electricity to rival a small city.

Mining pools exist to smooth the variance of who finds blocks, bundling the hashrate of thousands of participants so the proceeds get split by contribution rather than winner-take-all.

Parasite is founded by ZK Shark, the pseudonymous creator of Ordinal Maxi Biz (an NFT col

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!ARB Price Holds Near $0.129 While Traders Watch BTC Dominance Closely Arbitrum traded in

ARB Price Holds Near $0.129 While Traders Watch BTC Dominance Closely
Arbitrum traded in a narrow band on Friday as traders weighed a stronger altcoin backdrop against fresh warnings around token supply and Bitcoin dominance. On X, analyst Michaël van de Poppe said there had been “great momentum on altcoins over the past week” and added that with the VIX still low, Bitcoin showing momentum, and indices printing new highs, he “wouldn’t assume that this stops.”

For $ARB specifically, van de Poppe said that if a correction comes, and he added that he doubted it, the market would likely see a buy-the-dip formation and then continue toward $0.16. His chart showed a recovery structure with a green support box under price and a highlighted resistance zone above, implying he still sees room for continuation if the broader altcoin environment stays constructive.

Analyst Keeps Bullish View on $ARB

Van de Poppe’s setup is based on a market that has already started to rotate back into altcoins. His chart suggests $ARB is trying to build a higher base after a prolonged downtrend, with the recent rebound opening room for a push into the next resistance band.

Source: X

That view frames the current pause as consolidation, not rejection. In his words, the market may simply need a brief correction before continuing higher. The target he highlighted, $0.16, sits well above current trading levels and would require $ARB to sustain momentum from here.

However, that bullish view is not the only one in the market. Other traders are focusing less on chart structure and more on supply pressure and macro rotation inside crypto.

Vesting Activity and Bitcoin Dominance Temper the Upside Case

On X, Nazoku said Arbitrum’s vesting wallet 0xF89 has been vesting $ARB since May 2025. He said the wallet received 190 million $ARB, sent 142.5 million tokens worth about $83.2 milli

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestDaily $5000U Airdrop Rain: Claim Yours Now! XRP Price Volatility Falls to Multi-Year Lows, Setting Up a Potential Major Move X

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XRP Price Volatility Falls to Multi-Year Lows, Setting Up a Potential Major Move

XRP price is trading just above $1.40, pinned in a $1.30–$1.45 range with almost nothing happening – and that’s exactly what makes this setup worth watching.

The asset’s 30-day Realized Volatility Index has collapsed to approximately 0.42, its lowest reading since 2024, a quantifiable compression that historically precedes sharp directional moves rather than continued silence.




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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!All eyes on Bitcoin this weekend as Iran is already disputing the US narrative on the Ho

All eyes on Bitcoin this weekend as Iran is already disputing the US narrative on the Hormuz deal


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.

Bitcoin, oil and SPY prices over the last 6 months

That matters even more heading into the weekend. U.S. stocks, Treasuries, and most major markets shut down after Friday, but Bitcoin keeps trading.

So once again, Bitcoin becomes the first big, liquid market to test whether Friday’s rally was built on real progress or just hope.

The public messaging from Washington also leaves room for a reversal. Trump told Axios he expects a deal “in a day or two”, and the same report said the outline under discussion could involve the U.S. releasing $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in exchange for Tehran giving up its enriched uranium.

The Washington Post reported that Iran had not confirmed Trump's claim that it would hand over what he calls “nuclear dust,” while also noting that earlier U.S. claims about Iranian commitments had already proved unreliable or had fallen apart.

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Сеть Lightning Network не «безнадежно сломана» Несколько недель назад пост Уди Вертхайме

Сеть Lightning Network не «безнадежно сломана»

Несколько недель назад пост Уди Вертхаймера облетел заголовки криптомедиа, содержа резкое утверждение: сеть Lightning Network «безнадежно сломана» в постквантовом мире, и её разработчики ничего не могут с этим поделать. Заголовок быстро распространился. Для компаний, которые уже создали реальную платежную инфраструктуру на основе Lightning или оценивают её, последствия были тревожными.

Это заслуживает взвешенного ответа.

Вертхаймер — уважаемый разработчик Bitcoin, и его опасения вполне обоснованы: квантовые компьютеры, если они когда-нибудь станут достаточно мощными, представляют собой реальную долгосрочную проблему для криптографических систем, от которых зависят Bitcoin и Lightning. Эта часть верна, и сообщество разработчиков Bitcoin уже серьезно работает над этим. Но представление Lightning как «безнадежно сломанной» скрывает больше, чем раскрывает, и компании, принимающие решения по инфраструктуре, заслуживают более ясной картины.


Что Вертхаймер сказал правильно

Каналы Lightning требуют от участников обмена открытыми ключами со своим контрагентом при открытии платежного канала. В мире, где существуют криптографически значимые квантовые компьютеры (CRQC), злоумышленник, получивший эти открытые ключи, теоретически может использовать алгоритм Шора для получения соответствующего закрытого ключа и оттуда украсть средства.

Это реальное структурное свойство работы Lightning. Что упускает заголовок

Угроза гораздо более конкретна и гораздо более условна, чем «ваш баланс Lightning может быть украден».

Во-первых, сами каналы защищены хешем, пока они открыты. В транзакциях финансирования используется P2WSH (Pay-to-Witness-Script-Hash), что означает, что исходные открытые ключи внутри мультиподписной схемы 2-из-2 скрыты в блокчейне до тех пор, пока канал остается открытым. Платежи Lightning также основан

Сеть Lightning Network не «безнадежно сломана»

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