#Ethereum (#ETHUSD) is down about 5% over the past 24 hours, trading at $2,201.49, as failed Middle East ceasefire talks stoked sell pressure across major #cryptocurrencies.

https://dmarketforces.com/ethusd-drops-5-as-us-iran-failed-talks-stoke-selloffs/

AlphaPepe Announces $800k Raised While Bitcoin Price Prediction Targets $80K Breakout After Global Ceasefire

https://lemmy.world/post/45466209

"After several months in the depths of the Cypherpunks list archives, I sometimes lost track of where I was in my research and followed false leads down bizarre cul-de-sacs. While responding to one of the first criticisms of his white paper on the Cryptography list, Satoshi had written: “I didn’t really make that statement as strong as I could have.” I thought I had seen that phrase before and spent several evenings wading through hundreds of 1990s mailing-list posts I’d already read. It soon became clear I had imagined it.

But my rereading wasn’t all in vain. Other parallels between Mr. Back and Satoshi started to become apparent. For instance, Mr. Back and Satoshi shared a dislike for copyright.

“Scrap patents and copyright,” Mr. Back wrote in September 1997.

In keeping with this belief, Mr. Back made his Hashcash spam-throttling software open source.

Satoshi did a similar thing. He released the Bitcoin software under M.I.T.’s open-source license, which allowed anyone to use, modify and distribute it without restrictions.

In the spirit of building something in the public domain, Mr. Back and Satoshi also both created internet mailing lists dedicated to their creations — the Hashcash list and the Bitcoin-dev list — where they posted software updates listing new features and bug fixes in a format and style that looked strikingly similar.

Satoshi’s Back-like bias against copyright surfaced in other ways. He expressly waived copyright when he shared images of a Bitcoin logo he had designed on Bitcointalk, and he encouraged people who wanted to improve upon it to “make their graphics public domain.”

In the early 2000s, copyright enforcement became mainstream news when the popular file-sharing service Napster shut down after being sued by the big music companies. Napster was what’s known as peer-to-peer software, where users share content with one another directly..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html

#Bitcoin #Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #CipherPunks

undefined | Hiltzik: Trump wants you to invest your 401(k) in crypto and private equity. Should you bite? by Michael Hiltzik

Labor Secretary Lori Chávez‑DeRemer recently announced a proposed rule that would give plan sponsors a “safe harbor” to include cryptocurrencies and private‑equity funds in employees’ 401(k) accounts. In a Wall Street Journal op‑ed she framed the move as a way to undo “regulatory overreach” and open retirement savings to new kinds of innovation, arguing that employers have been overly cautious because of fear of lawsuits and bureaucratic scrutiny.

Critics, however, contend that the proposal serves the interests of alternative‑investment promoters who have long coveted access to the nearly $14 trillion pooled in defined‑contribution plans. The fiduciary duties of employers require them to act prudently and in workers’ best interests, a standard that has been reinforced by past lawsuits against plan sponsors that offered high‑fee, illiquid, or risky assets. Data from the Labor Department and industry observers show that only a small fraction of plans currently offer such alternatives, and that litigation risk, high fees, and opaque performance metrics have kept many employers away.

Both private‑equity funds and crypto assets carry significant drawbacks for the average retiree. Private‑equity returns have lagged public‑market benchmarks in recent years, while the sector remains illiquid and difficult to value. Cryptocurrencies are even more volatile, with dramatic price swings that can erase large portions of value in weeks. Because of these risks, many retirement professionals doubt that even a hands‑off regulatory stance will persuade plan sponsors to open the door to these “caveat emptor” investments, and plaintiff lawyers are likely to continue demanding higher standards of prudence for workers’ retirement savings.

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#401(k) #privateequity #cryptocurrencies #fiduciaryduties

NO PASA NADA:

"President Javier Milei of Argentina promoted a cryptocurrency last year that quickly skyrocketed in value then cratered just as fast, costing investors millions of dollars and setting off a scandal and an investigation.

Mr. Milei said he was simply highlighting a private venture and had no connection to the digital coin called $Libra.

New evidence is now raising questions about his assertion.
Phone logs from a federal investigation by Argentine prosecutors into the coin’s collapse show seven phone calls between Mr. Milei and one of the entrepreneurs behind the cryptocurrency on the night in 2025 when Mr. Milei posted about $Libra on X.

The contents of the calls, which took place before and after Mr. Milei’s post, are not known.

But the phone logs — which were obtained by The New York Times and first reported by a local cable news channel, C5N — suggest a greater degree of communication between Mr. Milei and the entrepreneurs who launched the token than what the president has publicly acknowledged. Newly uncovered messages also suggest Mr. Milei received regular payments from one of the entrepreneurs while he was a congressman.

Mr. Milei has not publicly commented on the call logs and other documents, and he did not respond to a request for comment.
He is named as a person of interest in the federal prosecutor’s continuing investigation into the digital coin, according to court documents reviewed by The Times, but has not been formally charged with any crime."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/world/americas/argentina-milei-crypto-libra.html

#Argentina #Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #AnarchoCapitalism #Corruption #Bribery