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05/05/2026

Coinbase Lays Off 700 Employees in AI-Driven Restructuring

The company plans to cut 14% of its workforce, around 700 jobs, to build leaner, AI-native teams that can move faster. Armstrong highlighted AI's power to speed up engineering from weeks to days, while trimming layers to just five below leadership and favoring player-coaches over pure managers.

Affected employees receive generous severance, including at least 16 weeks of pay for U.S. staff plus health coverage.

Shares rose 3.75% in pre-market, reflecting investor support as Coinbase preps for earnings.

05/05/2026

05/05/2026

FED CHAIR JEROME POWELL: "BITCOIN IS LIKE GOLD. IT'S JUST LIKE DIGITAL GOLD.”

05/04/2026

This vending machine sold bitcoins for $7 at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in 2012.

Casascius coins are ‘physical bitcoins’, containing a private key hidden under a tamper proof hologram, worth $80,000 today.

05/04/2026

Bitcoin reclaims $80,000

05/03/2026

What truly makes something money?

Most people think money = government paper.
But that's currency, not money.

Here's the actual distinction:

Money = anything a group agrees has value and can be exchanged, stored, and used to measure prices.
Currency = money that a government legally forces everyone to accept.

That's the only difference.

Throughout history, humans have used giant stones, seashells, animal hides, salt, gold, and ci******es as money. In each case, the material didn't matter. The collective agreement did.

Bitcoin's case is straightforward:
It functions as a medium of exchange ✓
It's a unit of account ✓
It stores value over time ✓

The more people and institutions that agree Bitcoin has value, the more it becomes undeniable money by definition.

El Salvador made it legal tender. BlackRock holds it in ETFs. Corporations put it on balance sheets. Each of those is another person saying yes, I agree this has value.

That's the same process that made gold money.
The same process that made the dollar money.
Bitcoin is not a new idea. It's the oldest idea in economics, rebuilt for the digital age.

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05/03/2026

$625 million was stolen from crypto in April alone.

April 2026 was one of the worst months for exploits, with $625 million stolen (major incidents like Drift and Kelp DAO). Increased focus on better security practices.

05/02/2026

1. Clarity Act Stablecoin Yield Compromise
Passive yield on stablecoin balances (just for holding) is banned to protect banks, but activity-based rewards for real usage (payments, lending, transactions) remain allowed for platforms like Coinbase.

2. Ethereum Foundation OTC Sale Update
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) completed another OTC sale of 10,000 ETH (~$23 million at ~$2,292/ETH) to BitMine Immersion Technologies (a major corporate ETH holder) to fund operations, protocol research & development, ecosystem grants, and community initiatives.

3. Record Hacks & Security Concerns
April 2026 became one of the worst months for exploits, with $625 million stolen (major incidents like Drift and Kelp DAO). Increased focus on better security practices.

4. Bitcoin Market Action & Institutional Flows
Strong Bitcoin ETF inflows (led by IBIT) and corporate treasury buying helped support BTC in the $75K–$78K range, with institutions hedging via puts while remaining net accumulators.

5. Ripple is against a US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Jack Mallers said, “I can confirm Ripple XRP is spending millions of dollars to undermine a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in America, and calls it an attack not only on bitcoin but on the principle of transparency, on fairness, and on America’s national security.

6. Meta’s Crypto Comeback
Meta is returning to the crypto space by enabling USDC creator payouts on Solana and Polygon. Powered by Stripe, the pilot is currently live for creators in Colombia and the Philippines, with support for major wallets like Phantom and MetaMask.

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05/02/2026

1. Clarity Act Stablecoin Yield Compromise
Passive yield on stablecoin balances (just for holding) is banned to protect banks, but activity-based rewards for real usage (payments, lending, transactions) remain allowed for platforms like Coinbase.

2. Ethereum Foundation OTC Sale Update
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) completed another OTC sale of 10,000 ETH (~$23 million at ~$2,292/ETH) to BitMine Immersion Technologies (a major corporate ETH holder) to fund operations, protocol research & development, ecosystem grants, and community initiatives.

3. Record Hacks & Security Concerns
April 2026 became one of the worst months for exploits, with $625 million stolen (major incidents like Drift and Kelp DAO). Increased focus on better security practices.

4. Bitcoin Market Action & Institutional Flows
Strong Bitcoin ETF inflows (led by IBIT) and corporate treasury buying helped support BTC in the $75K–$78K range, with institutions hedging via puts while remaining net accumulators.

5. Ripple is against a US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Jack Mallers said, “I can confirm Ripple XRP is spending millions of dollars to undermine a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in America, and calls it an attack not only on bitcoin but on the principle of transparency, on fairness, and on America’s national security.

6. Meta’s Crypto Comeback
Meta is returning to the crypto space by enabling USDC creator payouts on Solana and Polygon. Powered by Stripe, the pilot is currently live for creators in Colombia and the Philippines, with support for major wallets like Phantom and MetaMask.

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05/01/2026

Me to my friend who just started trading In Crypto

05/01/2026

North Korea-linked Lazarus Group pulls off one of DeFi’s most sophisticated heists yet: $292M stolen from Kelp DAO via a LayerZero bridge exploit. Instead of dumping, hackers used the unbacked rsETH as collateral on Aave to borrow clean ETH, triggering an $8B TVL exodus in 48 hours, the first major DeFi bank run. Most of the funds were then swiftly laundered through THORChain, shattered across BTC UTXOs, and settled via Tron USDT and Chinese OTC desks. All on-chain. All in under a week.