The billionth transaction of the Bitcoin network has been completed, which occurred at Block Height 842,241 at 05:34 Beijing time on May 6. 15 years, 4 months and 4 days have passed since Bitcoin's anonymous founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, mined the first block on the network on January 3, 2009. This means that an average of 5603 transactions were made per day during the 5603 days of 178475 Bitcoin's existence. Transaction count does not include transactions made on the Lighting Network.

The U.S. SEC said it would take more long time to decide on the next steps for the proposed 7RCC Spot Bitcoin and carbon credit futures ETF, and therefore delayed a decision on the approval of the 7RCC Spot Bitcoin and carbon credit futures ETF. In a document filed on Thursday local time, the agency said it would decide whether to approve the 7RCC Spot Bitcoin and carbon credit futures ETF by June 24, 2024. Spot Bitcoin and carbon credit futures ETF filed its S-1 registration statement on December 18, 2023, one month before the SEC-approved Spot Bitcoin ETF. The fund plans to invest 80% of its

In a new report, VanEck said that Bitcoin holdings by various ETFs, countries and companies currently total about $175 billion. According to the data, this is about 15% of the entire Bitcoin supply. VanEck said in the report that institutional investor interest in Bitcoin has also increased. Hedging funds, asset managers, and endowments are increasingly recognizing Bitcoin's potential as a store of value.

For the first time since July 2019, the 7-day MA of the Bitcoin market capitalization to Money Laundering ratio was below Ethereum, the data showed. Earlier this month, Bitcoin had a moving average of 2400 for the ratio, while Ethereum was just 118.33. However, on April 25, Bitcoin's ratio had fallen to 220.77, lower than Ethereum's 227.12. Recently, with the popularity of runes, the total fees paid by the Bitcoin network have also surpassed Ethereum, with its 7-day moving average climbing to a record high of $25.77 million.

ChinaAMC Capital said it is very confident that the initial listing size of Hong Kong's virtual asset Spot ETF (more than US$125 million) will exceed the issuance size of the first day in the United States (here issuance scale refers to IOPs, not first-day deposit). Singapore, the Middle East and other places have reached out to a large number of investors with great interest. At present, mainland Chinese investors are not allowed to invest in Hong Kong's Crypto Assets Spot ETF, and Hong Kong qualified investors, institutional investors, retail investors and international investors who meet th

Australia will launch Bitcoin Spot ETF. Australian Securities exchange ASX Ltd will approve the first Bitcoin Spot ETF to list on the Main Board by the end of 2024. A spokesperson for BetaShares said the company was working on launching Crypto Assets ETF on the ASX. Justin Arzadon, head of digital asset at BetaShares, said the company had set aside the ASX ticker code for Bitcoin Spot ETF and Ethereum Spot ETF. An ASX spokesperson said the exchange "continues to engage with a number of issuance people interested in launching encryption ETF", but did not confirm the timeline.

Forbes published an article listing 20 zombie tokens with a large cap of more than $1 billion in the encryption space, including: XRP, ADA, BCH, LTC, ICP, ETC, XLM, STX, KAS, THETA, FTM, XMR, AR, ALGO, FLOW, EGLD, BSV, MINA, XTZ, EOS. Forbes defines "zombie tokens" as: assets that have little use other than speculative crypto assets trading. For example, XRP has a market capitalization of $36 billion, while Ripple's XRP fees for processing transactions on its network for all of last year were just $583,000.

Hong Kong exchange issued a notice announcing that the admission of Bosera HashKey Bitcoin ETF Shares and Bosera HashKey Ethereum ETF Shares, ChinaAMC Bitcoin ETF Shares and ChinaAMC Ethereum ETF Shares, as well as Harvest Bitcoin Spot ETF Shares and Harvest Ethereum Spot ETF Shares as Eligible Securities long the Central Settlement System. In addition, the above ETF is expected to commence listing and trading on The United exchange of Hong Kong Limited on 30 April 2024 and be included as a central Settlement counter long eligible securities on the same date.

96,000 BTC Options are expiring soon, with a Put Call Ratio of 0.68, a maximum pain point of $61,000, and a nominal value of $6.2 billion. 990,000 ETH Options are expiring soon, with a Put Call Ratio of 0.51, a maximum pain point of $3,100, and a notional value of $3.1 billion. The trading volume of the encryption market fell significantly this week, Bitcoin and Ethereum fluctuated at low levels, and the weakness of the market led to a sharp decline in all major maturity IVs, and the Dvol fell by as much as 15% since the Halving, and the Halving failed to bring fluctuations, resulting in the a

Tools for Humanity, the company behind Worldcoin, has hinted that it may soon partner with major tech and financial companies. CEO Alex Blania said of the potential partnership with OpenAI: "It's a natural thing how we might work together, but we're not ready to announce it yet. Blania also said that the company has "conversations" with PayPal but has not yet made "concrete" progress.

According to the joint circular issued by the SFC and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority in December 2023, neither the existing virtual asset futures ETF in the Hong Kong market nor the virtual asset Spot ETF to be issuance in the future can be offered to retail investors who are prohibited from selling VA-related products, such as in mainland China. However, Mainlanders holding Hong Kong identity cards, even if they are not permanent residents of Hong Kong, can participate in the trading of the above ETFs subject to compliance. In addition to the Hong Kong dollar and US dollar counters, the two

ChinaAMC (Hong Kong) and Harvest Global Investments both announced that their Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF have been approved by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). Huaxia's Bitcoin ETF and Ethereum ETF are scheduled to issuance on April 29, 2024, and are expected to be listed in Hong Kong exchange on April 30, 2024, while Harvest's Bitcoin Spot ETF and Ethereum Spot ETF will also be listed in exchange at the end of April. In addition, the Bitcoin and Ethereum Spot ETF of Bosera Fund International and HashKey Capital have also been approved by the Hong Kong Securities and Future

The Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP-420 formally proposes to restore the OP_CAT Operation Code to introduce "Covenants" functionality on Bitcoin. Udi Wertheimer, an advocate of OP_CAT and co-founder of Taproot Wizards, said that OP_CAT will allow smart contracts, secure cross-chain bridges, on-chain transactions, zk-SNARKs verification and other features on Bitcoin. A "contract" is an advanced scripting feature that sets specific conditions for the use of Bitcoin in future transactions. This will open up longest use cases, such as creating secure "vaults" that allow transaction rollbacks, aut

PayPal partnered with the nonprofit EnergyWeb to develop a clean energy verification platform to monitor and reward Mining Farm with lower energy consumption, a solution designed to alleviate the pressure Bitcoin Mining place on the U.S. grid and taxpayers. PayPal's proposed solution would distribute Bitcoin to "green" Miners who adopt low-carbon energy sources. This helps reduce carbon emissions and mitigate global warming.

Just one month after the Solana presale frenzy, the 12 Solana presale meme coins that have raised more than 180,650 SOL (about $26.7 million) have been completely abandoned. A reminder of the need to avoid any future projects initiated by these founders.

Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr tweeted that the only way to filter out Runes spam using Bitcoin Knots or Bitcoin Core is to set datacarriersize=0 in the bitcoin.conf file (or do the same in Knots' GUI options). Last December, Luke Dashjr slammed the Ordinals and demanded that the Ordinals inscription be banned, causing widespread controversy. After the launch of Runes yesterday, the Bitcoin network Money Laundering fee was briefly pushed to more than 2,000 sat/vb, and has now fallen back to about 100sat/vb (about $9).

Grayscale revealed some details of its spin-off fund, Bitcoin Mini Trust (BTC), in its latest filing, including a management fee of 0.15%, which is lower than the post-listing rate of the parent fund GBTC. The document also provides an example of the amount of BTC that Grayscale will inject into the Mini Fund as 63,204 Bitcoin, representing about 10% of GBTC's existing assets. Shares of the BTC Trust Fund will be automatically issued and distributed to GBTC shareholders. Grayscale's launch of Bitcoin Mini Trust aims to provide GBTC investors with a low-cost option with more competitive rates i

Bitcoin will have its fourth Halving at a Block Height of 840,000, with an estimated Halving time of 8:10 (UTC+8) on April 20.
Interest in "Bitcoin Halving Bitcoin halving" has soared to ATH on Google, with projections showing that it will long to 45 points from the last Halving in 2020 and is expected to reach 100 by the end of this month. Despite the recent cooling of Bitcoin price action, some market commentators believe that based on the historical pattern of price action, Bitcoin could pump sharply in the months following the Halving.

DAO (DAO) Own the Doge bought the rights to the images associated with the DOGE prototype Kabosu, and the group did not disclose the bid price of purchase. It took Three Years for Own The Doge to close the deal, during which time the organization worked with legal experts in the United States and Japan to negotiate the acquisition. John Monarch, project lead at Own The Doge, said that as the copyright of DOGE images becomes clearer (which seems to have been free for longest years), there are growing opportunities to work with big brands.