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JUST IN: The largest #Bitcoin  mining pool by hashrate, Foundry, informs the members of their pool that if they find the halving block, the pool will "isolate the epic sat" (the first sat of the halving block) to sell for "outsized market value" 🤦‍♂️

BITWISE: Halving historically benefits #Bitcoin  price long-term, with +8,839% in 2012, +285% in 2016, and +548% in 2020.

Looking ahead, the short-term impact is less significant, with 9% in 2012, -10% in 2016 and 6% in 2020.

JUST IN: Economists now see the 🇺🇸 Fed waiting until at least September to cut interest rates and are increasingly entertaining the possibility of no reductions at all this year 👀😮

NEW: Biggest 🇺🇸 US #Bitcoin  ATM operator #Bitcoin Depot states in its annual 10-K report that its revenue is not linked to #Bitcoin  prices.

Despite a 155% surge in #Bitcoin  price last year, their revenue only grew 6%.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Powell says the recent data shows a lack of further progress on returning to the Federal Reserve's 2% inflation goal 👀

NEW: “We want serious actors who are important to society, and the society-serving computer industry is important to us."

#Bitcoin  data center businesses "are not welcome in Norway,” says 🇳🇴 Norway Energy Minister Terje Aasland.

NEW: Kraken releases commercial explaining why #Bitcoin is superior to fiat and gold 👀🙌 https://video.nostr.build/64ea76e847d0c416088e3cd535e940107120d1d3accd6c4d4fecf3a0fafbf041.mp4

NEW: Open-source SafeMiner hardware is designed to detect fire and automatically shut down a Bitcoin miner to prevent additional damage 👀🙌 https://video.nostr.build/2f194d0543247c194b3370e04798e837245d02b7a886d75c2886ffa488c056bf.mp4

NEW: Students in 🇸🇻 El Salvador studying Elliptic Curve cryptography while making public and private keys 👀🙌 https://video.nostr.build/e672dc635fb2f466f052f328fc38cfb89a292abc4180f62fac867b8e30483543.mp4

#Bitcoin is the only trillion dollar asset available to trade 24/7.

With the threat of WWIII, it makes sense to see a sell off of the only asset with liquidity in a time of panic.

JUST IN: Bitfarms has announced the completion of upgrades to 2 mining facilities located in Québec, Canada 🇨🇦, bringing the company’s total hash rate to 7 EH/S.

JUST IN: #Bitcoin  back over $65K as 🇮🇷 Iran’s UN Mission says their retaliatory attack on 🇮🇱 Israel can be “deemed complete” 👀

NEW: #Bitcoin ⛏️ mining difficulty jumps 4% as hashrate approaches all-time highs, with the 7-day MA rising in recent days.

NEW: “The recent sharp rises in both gold and #BTC reflect that the market has suddenly increased the value of non-seizability.

This shows that the ability of both assets to maintain their value in the face of external factors is increasingly recognized,” says BCA Research.

NEW: Investors flock to gold, driving sales at Costco.

Market jitters and global tensions are pushing individual buyers towards gold.

Wells Fargo estimates the retailer could be selling up to

💵 $200M in gold bullion monthly 👀

NEW: MASSIVE ad for BlackRock's #Bitcoin ETF on the Bloomberg homepage 👀