Poll: Most People Cringe About Crypto, But Enough Care to Warrant Politicians' Attention As U.S. politicians continue to wrestle with how to approach crypto issues, about 21% of voters in vital swing states consider cryptocurrency policies as a topic important enough to sway their support... https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/07/poll-most-people-cringe-about-crypto-but-enough-care-to-warrant-politicians-attention/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Settles Into $63K-$64K Range The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for May 7, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/05/07/first-mover-americas-bitcoin-settles-into-63k-64k-range/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Bitcoin Could Drop Further to as Low as $50K, Standard Chartered Says The cryptocurrency is now trading below the average spot ETF purchase price of about $58K, and this could trigger liquidations, the report said. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/05/01/bitcoin-could-drop-further-to-as-low-as-50k-standard-chartered-says/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Stablecoin Bill Could be Ready for the U.S. House Soon Says Top Democrat Maxine Waters: Bloomberg U.S. House Representative Maxine Waters (D-California), the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, told Bloomberg Wednesday "We are on our way to getting a stablecoin bill in the shor... https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/04/25/stablecoin-bill-could-be-ready-for-the-us-house-soon-says-top-democrat-maxine-waters-bloomberg/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

'Buy Bitcoin' Sign Sold for Over $1M at Auction Proceeds will go to fund the development of Bitcoin layer-2 lightning startup Tirrel Corp. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/04/25/buy-bitcoin-sign-sold-for-over-1m-at-auction/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Bitcoin Pioneer Hal Finney Posthumously Wins New Award Named for Him https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/04/19/bitcoin-pioneer-hal-finney-posthumously-wins-new-award-named-for-him/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Bitcoin Dips Below $60K as Israel Launches Strike on Iran Iran's first strike on Israel pushed down crypto and risk assets, while leading to a spike in gold. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/04/19/bitcoin-dips-below-60k-as-israel-launches-strike-on-iran/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Runes, Casey Rodarmor's Protocol for 'Sh!tcoins' on Bitcoin, Set to Go Live at Halving Rodarmor created last year's breakout Ordinals protocol, which is used to create non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Bitcoin. Now, he says the relevance of protocols like his new Runes, used to create fungi... https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/04/17/runes-casey-rodarmors-protocol-for-shtcoins-on-bitcoin-set-to-go-live-at-halving/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

OG Bitcoin L2 Stacks Is Getting a Major Overhaul The Nakamoto update will decouple block production from Bitcoin itself, solving the problem of network congestion Stacks has had since it launched its mainnet in 2021. https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/04/16/og-bitcoin-l2-stacks-is-getting-a-major-overhaul/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

The Halving Highlights Why Bitcoin Needs to Upgrade Higher fees from Ordinals and BRC-20 may be good for miners but they risk pushing activity to the fragmented world of L2s and harming adoption of Bitcoin around the world. Proposals for “OP_CAT” and C... https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/04/12/the-halving-highlights-why-bitcoin-needs-to-upgrade/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines