💰 Bitcoin Miners Battle the AI Boom Ahead of Halving: Bernstein

Bitcoin miners are increasingly facing off against a new foe to contend with ahead of this week’s halving: the AI boom. Bitcoin miners are largely centralized operations that mint new digital coins. To do so, a Monday report explains, they need to use a lot of computers and therefore energy. Meanwhile, the booming AI industry is also power-hungry. Both industries look to places like Texas, which has cheap energy and lots of land to build data centers.

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💰 Current actions of bitcoin holders mirror December 2020, suggesting possible growth phase: Bitfinex analysts

A significant decrease in the inactive supply of bitcoin that has not moved in over a year is indicative of long-term holders either continuing to trim their holdings or moving their assets off exchange, according to this week's Bitfinex Alpha report. "Fundamental to bitcoin price dynamics is this week’s halving, which as it approaches, has seen a notable surge in bitcoin leaving centralized exchanges, and a decrease in the inactive supply of bitcoin that has not moved in over a year, to an 18-month low," Bitfinex analysts said.

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💰 Umoja Partners With Merlin Chain to Launch Bitcoin's First High-Yield Synthetic Dollar

The smart money protocol Umoja has joined forces with the Bitcoin layer two (L2) initiative, Merlin Chain, to roll out a Bitcoin-based high-yield synthetic dollar. The newly introduced stablecoin is engineered to uphold a self-sustaining peg via transparent, onchain trading techniques developed by Umoja.

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💰 Bitcoin Staking Is Now Possible With Core Chain

Bitcoin-powered layer-one blockchain Core Chain is now letting investors stake their BTC—something that, historically, BTC holders haven’t been able to do. Staking tokens reward users with a percentage yield—often in the single digits—over a period of time. This has notoriously been exclusive to proof-of-stake blockchains. Traders on Bitcoin, which uses proof-of-work, haven’t been able to stake their tokens.

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💰 Blackrock Closes in on Grayscale in the Battle for the ‘World’s Largest’ Bitcoin ETF

Grayscale’s GBTC continued to report reductions in its bitcoin (BTC) reserves following two days of significant outflows—a $55.1 million drop on Friday and a $36.7 million decline on Monday. The reduction continued into Tuesday’s session with a $58 million decrease. Trading volume on Tuesday reached $2.45 billion, which was lower than the volumes recorded on Monday and Friday.

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💰 Google Searches for Bitcoin Halving Skyrockets as Major Event Approaches

The excitement surrounding the upcoming Bitcoin halving has led to a significant increase in Google searches for “Bitcoin halving,” with interest reaching its highest point ever, more than double that of the last halving event in 2020, and is predicted to hit peak popularity. The halving event, which reduces the rewards miners receive by half, from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC, is scheduled to occur around 4am UTC on April 20.

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💰 URPD metric indicates a lack of liquidity for Bitcoin below $60,000

Bitcoin experienced a 4% rally on April 18, bouncing back from just below $60,000 on April 17. CryptoSlate has identified $58.8k as a major support level — which is the short-term holder realized price (STH RP) that has previously acted as support during bull runs. If Bitcoin drops below the support level, it could signal a bearish trend, similar to the breach of STH RP in May 2021 that kicked off the bear market.

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💰 BitMEX's bitcoin perpetual swap now offers 250x leverage ahead of halving

Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX has increased the leverage on its bitcoin perpetual swap, XBTUSD, from 100x to 250x ahead of the halving event. "The increased leverage came upon requests from traders to profit from the volatility as the next Bitcoin Halving happens," BitMEX said Friday. The bitcoin halving event is expected to occur within the next 24 hours and will reduce the issuance rewards for bitcoin miners from the current 6.25 BTC per block to 3.125.

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💰 Bitcoin has officially halved!

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💰 Bitcoin ushers in fourth halving as miners' block subsidy reward drops to 3.125 BTC

Bitcoin’s latest halving is now complete, seeing miners’ block subsidy rewards drop from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC. Bitcoin’s fourth halving occurred at block height 840,000, ushering in a new epoch for the network. Hopes of many in the community that the halving would land on the memeable date of 4/20 failed to materialize for the U.S. market as miners appeared to ramp up their hash rate on the network ahead of the subsidy drop.

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🥇 Bitcoin mining stocks saw spikes across the board ahead of halving event

Several Bitcoin mining firms listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange closed the trading week with a noticeable 24-hour increase in share prices in the lead-up to the Bitcoin halving event. On April 20, Bitcoin celebrated its fourth-ever halving event, and the date was likely firmly marked in the calendars of Bitcoin mining firms as it can significantly disrupt business operations.

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DAVE PORTNOY: 🪙 I wouldn’t buy Bitcoin at these levels. I’m don’t think I can stomach getting back in until it’s in the 40’s again

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💰 100k signatures can trigger Swiss national referendum on adding Bitcoin to country reserves

Bitcoin advocates in Switzerland have initiated a campaign to trigger a National Referendum urging the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to include the flagship digital asset in its asset reserves. The campaign is spearheaded by Yves Bennaïm, the founder and chairman of 2B4CH, a nonprofit think tank, and enjoys support from Luzius Meisser, the chairman of asset manager Bitcoin Suisse.

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💰 Bitcoin transaction fees surge to make up 75% of miner revenue post-halving

Bitcoin’s fourth halving introduced a long-term and a short-term shift in miner revenue composition as it reduced the amount of BTC rewarded to miners for each mined block by 50% — directly impacting miner incentives and, by extension, the broader Bitcoin economy. On April 19, just before the halving, transaction fees constituted 11% of total.

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💰 Mt. Gox's Looming $9B Payout Could Weigh on Bitcoin Prices, K33 Research Warns

The crypto market has mostly shrugged off last week's correction, but there's a possible catalyst ahead that could weigh on prices through the next few weeks, putting a rally higher in jeopardy. Mt. Gox, a crypto exchange that imploded due to a hack in 2014, is gearing toward distributing 142,000 bitcoin (BTC) worth roughly $9.5 billion and 143,000 bitcoin cash (BCH) worth $73 million to creditors, posing a substantial overhang on digital asset prices.

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💰 Bitcoin options worth over $6.3 billion set to expire this Friday on Deribit

Approximately $9.4 billion in cryptocurrency options are set to expire this Friday on the Deribit derivatives exchange. The majority of the options set to expire are bitcoin contracts, with a notional value of $6.35 billion. The put-call ratio ahead of Friday's end-of-month expiry is elevated at 0.68 — an increase in the amount of puts versus calls when compared to the previous week.

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💰 Bitwise CIO predicts Bitcoin volatility will fall 50% as institutional adoption rises

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan provided a comprehensive outlook on Bitcoin’s trajectory towards the 2028 halving, predicting a 50% decrease in volatility and heightened institutional investor engagement. Bitcoin (BTC) hit a new all-time high weeks before the 2024 halving in an unprecedented surge. Hougan believes this trend will continue post-halving and cause Bitcoin’s price to escalate dramatically, as it has in the past since its $13 valuation at the time of its first halving in 2012.

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