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South Korean 'drug lord' extradited as authorities target Bitcoin trail South Korea extradites alleged drug boss Park Wang-yeol and prepares a blockchain forensics push to trace at least 6.8b won in B

South Korean 'drug lord' extradited as authorities target Bitcoin trail South Korea extradites alleged drug boss Park Wang-yeol and prepares a blockchain forensics push to trace at least 6.8b won in Bitcoin-linked drug proceeds.

South Korean authorities have taken custody of alleged "drug lord" Park Wang-yeol, extradited from a Philippine prison where he was serving a 60-year sentence for the 2016 "sugarcane field" triple homicide, to face new narcotics and money-laundering charges at home. Reuters reported that Park, believed to be 47, is suspected of running a drug trafficking ring from inside his Philippine cell, coordinating shipments of "large quantities" of methamphetamine and other narcotics into South Korea via encrypted apps. According to Korean media summaries cited by outlets including the Dong-A Ilbo, officials estimate he oversaw a monthly drug business worth roughly 30 billion won (around $22 million), turning prison into a command center rather than a constraint.

Bitcoin wallets in the crosshairs

The Korean Drug Crime Joint Investigation Headquarters a consolidated task force of prosecutors and police has made clear that tracing Park's financial footprint will rely heavily on on-chain analysis of Bitcoin wallets believed to have received drug proceeds. While confirmed criminal takings in the current indictment stand at roughly 6.8 billion won (just over $5 million), investigators told domestic media they suspect the true scale of assets moved through crypto wallets between November 2019 and July 2024 is "several times larger.

Reporting from Chosun Ilbo details how Park allegedly directed accomplices in Korea to sell drugs sourced from abroad including at least 4.9 kilograms of methamphetamine and thousands of ecstasy and ketamine doses then funneled profits through digital channels rather than traditional banking rails.

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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengePost To Earn BonusHTX Community Spring Creation ContestOn-chain data shows the Exchange Inflow indicator has shot up for USDC, something that could be 

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On-chain data shows the Exchange Inflow indicator has shot up for USDC, something that could be relevant for Bitcoin and other digital assets.

USDC Exchange Inflow Has Hit The Highest Level In Months
As highlighted by CryptoQuant community analyst Maartunn in a new post on X, the Exchange Inflow recently observed a surge for Circle’s stablecoin, USDC. The “Exchange Inflow” here is an indicator that keeps track of the total amount of a given asset that’s being transferred to wallets connected to centralized exchanges.

Generally, one of the main reasons why investors deposit their tokens to these platforms is for selling-related purposes, so a spike in the metric can indicate elevated demand for swapping the cryptocurrency. In the case of assets like Bitcoin, this can naturally have a bearish effect on the price.

For a stablecoin like USDC, however, there is no such effect as its price is by definition stable around the $1 mark. That said, exchange inflows related to the asset can still matter for the wider sector.

Often, investors stash their capital away in the form of these fiat-tied tokens when they want to wait for an opportune moment to enter the volatile side. Once traders feel that the time is right, they deposit their stablecoins to exchanges, swapping them for Bitcoin or any digital asset of their choice. This shifting can naturally provide a buying boost to the target cryptocurrency.

As the chart below, shared by Maartunn, shows, the USDC Exchange Inflow has observed a massive spike during the past day, implying exchanges have received a large amount of the stablecoin.


The value of the metric seems to have shot up during the past day | Source: @JA_Maartun on X
The latest deposit spree has seen the inflow of 778,566,191.65 USDC, the largest level since September 2025. Back then, the large spike led into Bitcoin’s run to the new all-time high (

On-chain data shows the Exchange Inflow indicator

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Altcoins are Dying, But Not All of Them: Easter Weekend Crypto Watchlist



The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is sitting at 11. The Altcoin Season Index at 38, firmly in Bitcoin Season territory. And the crypto community is more divided than it has been all year.

On one side: “Most altcoins will die,” wrote Altcoin Daily today, a sentiment also echoed by Ash Crypto, who put it plainly – altcoins have been in a bear market since 2021.

On the other: trader Kazi is warning his followers that when alt season finally arrives, “it’s going to be like nothing you’ve EVER seen before.”

When it happens, you'll cry yourself to sleep at night.

You've been warned.

When the alt season happens, it's going to be like nothing you've EVER seen before. https://t.co/ChThVVB60i pic.twitter.com/hTObe9KbM9

— Kazi (@TheCryptoKazi) April 4, 2026

Who is right about this? Both camps have data. That’s what makes this interesting.

40% of Altcoins Are Near All-Time Lows

The numbers behind the bearish case are hard to dismiss. More than 36 million tokens now exist. Around 40% of altcoins are trading at or near all-time lows – worse than the reading recorded after the FTX collapse.

Selling pressure on altcoins has reached a cumulative $209 billion over the past 13 months, with no meaningful reversal.

Here’s something even more striking: the Fear & Greed Index has now been in Extreme Fear for 76 consecutive days – the longest such streak since the FTX collapse.

Bitcoin dominance remains elevated. Institutions are mostly parked in BTC and $ETH ETFs. The capital rotation that powered 2021’s broad alt rally simply hasn’t shown up.

So Why Are the Bulls Still Here?

Because extreme readings like these have historically preceded reversals, not extensions. The CMC Altcoin Season Index sat at 12 as recently as April 2025 – its yearly low – before climbing back to 78 by September. The c

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Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider cryptocurrency market continue their long-sustained decline amid institutional and retail panic. The asset's price dominated the narratives, but more headwinds are mounting amid previously bullish on-chain metrics.New data shows a massive decline in Bitcoin supply, signaling panic trading from multiple fronts. CryptoQuant researchers wrote that the true metric is at its lowest point since 2022, a phase marked by industry collapses and the infamous FTX implosion. At 11.3M BTC, the supply in product is now at a bottom discovery band heightened by huge outflows. Based on historical data, this point indicates an increased exodus of traders, especially among short-term holders. From the depths of the 2019 crypto winter to the Black Thursday Liquidity event and the post-FTX outflows, trader panic became dominant.Experts have compared this capitulation to previous cycles, concluding that a possible seller exhaustion might be on the cards. Notably, this is a major positive amid the whole crypto market chaos. When Bitcoin price and performance move this year, it is presumed that short-term holders are out, leaving bullish whales. These investors have a lower cost basis, justifying the seller exhaustion recorded this week."...it signifies that those remaining in the market are largely long-term HODLers whose cost basis is lower, or buyers who are currently underwater but refusing to sell. While hitting the Bottom Discovery band does not guarantee an immediate V-shaped recovery, it historically signals that the downside risk is becoming increasingly exhausted relative to the upside potential. "

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Here's what 'cracking' bitcoin in 9 minutes by quantum computers actually means



Google's Quantum AI team said earlier this week that a future quantum computer could derive a bitcoin private key from a public key in roughly nine minutes. The number ricocheted across social media and spooked markets.

But, what does it actually mean in practice?

Let's start with how bitcoin transactions work. When you send bitcoin, your wallet signs the transaction with a private key, a secret number that proves you own the coins.

That signature also reveals your public key, a shareable address, which gets broadcast to the network and sits in a waiting area called the mempool until a miner includes it in a block. On average, that confirmation takes about 10 minutes.

Your private key and public key are linked by a math problem called the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem. Classical computers can't reverse that math in any useful timeframe, while a sufficiently powerful future quantum computer running an algorithm called Shor's could.

Here's where the nine minutes part comes in. Google's paper found that a quantum computer could be "primed" in advance by pre-computing the parts of the attack that don't depend on any specific public key.

Once your public key appears in the mempool, the machine only needs about nine minutes to finish the job and derive your private key. Bitcoin's average confirmation time is 10 minutes. That gives the attacker a roughly 41% chance of deriving your key and redirecting your funds before the original transaction confirms.

Think of it like a thief spending hours building a universal safe-cracking machine (pre-computation). The machine works for any safe, but each time a new safe appears, it only needs a few final adjustments — and that last step is what takes about nine minutes.

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