NEW: The 🇺🇸 State Department has lowered 🇸🇻 El Salvador’s travel advisory to level 1, the safest level.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan: "Bitcoin benefits when there's new space for reserve assets. I think it's the cleanest investment response to the chaos and confusion we're seeing from the tariffs."

Bitcoin Hashrate can't stop hitting new highs 🦾

NEWSWEEK: "Palestinian-Jordanian economist Saifedean Ammous, a prominent advocate for Bitcoin, has been especially critical of the rationale behind the new trade policies. 'Wanting all countries to have perfectly-balanced trade with the US is precisely as stupid, impractical, and pointless as you wanting to have zero trade balance with everyone you know,' Ammous posted to X.

Scott Bessent: "China's escalation was a big mistake. They are playing with a pair of twos. We are the deficit country; what do we lose by the Chinese raising tariffs on us?"

Bitcoin network is now 1,000 times more powerful than it was in 2016. https://bitcoinnews.com/mining/bitcoin-hashrate-1-zettahash/

$3T gained. $2.5T lost. In 30 minutes. A fake headline sparked a market rally then triggered a crash. This isn’t a just trade dispute anymore. It’s financial warfare between the two leading superpowers. Video by Rob Wallace

NEW: Steve Miran, Head of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, says China relies on the US to absorb its excess goods and that dependence will force them to comply with US tariffs.

NEW: Strategy discloses $5.91 billion in unrealized losses on its Bitcoin holdings for Q1 2025, according to a new SEC filing.

NEW: 🇳🇬 Nigeria recognizes bitcoin and crypto as securities.