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Romania Blocks 300 Sites and Launches €5M Treatment Fund as Polymarket Ban Holds in Court – Bitcoin News

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Key Takeaways: Romania ONJN blocked over 300 illegal gambling sites and revoked 60 licenses in its 2025-2026 mandate year. €5M Conștient și Liber fund marks Romania’s first state funding for gambling addiction treatment Romanian court rejected Polymarket’s suspension request on April 1, keeping ONJN blacklist intact. Romania’s Gambling Regulator Shares Block List The Oficiul Național pentru Jocuri de Noroc (ONJN) published its activity report on April 24, summarising 12 months of enforcement and reform. The figures point to a reorientation toward black market enforcement. ONJN inspectors carried out approximately 11,000…

Tether’s new open-source mining kit is a power grab over Bitcoin’s industrial stack

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Tether has launched an open-source Mining Development Kit that collapses Bitcoin mining’s fragmented hardware dashboards into a single JavaScript and React-based stack. Summary Tether has launched an open-source Mining Development Kit (MDK) to unify Bitcoin mining infrastructure management. MDK gives miners and developers a single JavaScript and React-based layer to automate fleets from home rigs to gigawatt-scale farms. The move deepens Tether’s push into mining, following its MiningOS (MOS) release and CEO Paolo Ardoino’s ambition to become the world’s largest Bitcoin miner. Tether pushes deeper into mining software stack Stablecoin…

Pundit Flags The Retest That Will Trigger It

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The XRP price is still consolidating around the $1.4 level after months of sideways trading. Despite this weak performance and slow growth, analysts continue to maintain a strong bullish outlook for the cryptocurrency. According to market expert Javon Marks, XRP is now at a critical retest area that could determine its next parabolic move. He believes this retest could act as the trigger for a potential 900% rally, possibly pushing XRP toward $15. XRP 2014 Fractal Pattern Points To 900% Rally In his latest XRP price analysis on X, Marks…

Bitcoin ETFs Draw $824M as Blackrock’s IBIT Dominates Weekly Crypto Fund Inflows

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Key Takeaways: Bitcoin ETFs pulled $824 million for the week, led by Blackrock IBIT’s $732 million dominance. Ether ETFs added $155 million despite a mid-week break, with Blackrock ETHA/ETHB driving flows. XRP ($16 million) and solana ($9.4 million) also recorded gains as Bitwise, Franklin signaled sustained demand for altcoin ETFs. Nearly $1 Billion Flows Into Bitcoin, Ether ETFs in Strong Week Momentum carried through the week, though not without friction. Crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) delivered another solid performance between April 20 and April 24, with capital continuing to flow into…

Michael Saylor’s Strategy adds 3.2K Bitcoin at nearly $78K per BTC

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Michael Saylor’s Strategy bought 3,273 Bitcoin for $255 million between April 20 and 26, bringing total holdings to 818,334 BTC. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public Bitcoin holder, added more Bitcoin last week as BTC traded above $77,000. Strategy acquired 3,273 Bitcoin for $255 million between April 20 and 26, according to an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The purchases were made at an average price of $77,906 per coin, raising Strategy’s cost basis to $75,537. Read more Original

Ethereum’s EEZ could pull other blockchains into its orbit

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The Ethereum Economic Zone aims to unify fragmented rollups, but its broader goal is to extend interoperability to other blockchains, says Ernst. A proposal to stitch Ethereum’s fragmented liquidity together extends beyond its own ecosystem and may bring other blockchains into the fold. On March 29, Gnosis, a long-time Ethereum builder and blockchain infrastructure company, unveiled that it is developing the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) with Zisk, a zero-knowledge virtual machine project.  The EEZ is aimed at linking layer-2 rollups more tightly to Ethereum layer 1, with Ether remaining as…

MiCA has made euro stablecoins safe but weak, new report argues

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A new Blockchain for Europe report says MiCA has made euro stablecoins safer but less competitive, and urges targeted reforms to reserves and remuneration. A new report released Monday from industry group Blockchain for Europe argues that the European Union’s flagship crypto laws, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework, have produced euro-denominated stablecoins that are ultra-safe but commercially weak, leaving the bloc far behind US dollar-pegged tokens in digital payments and trading. The report cites DeFiLlama data that euro stablecoins account for less than 1% of global stablecoin volume…

Dogecoin Trap Shows A Major Crash, But How Low Will The Price Go?

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Crypto analyst Crypto Paradise has warned that a Dogecoin trap is on the horizon, with the meme coin likely to suffer a crash soon. He pointed to a bearish pattern that signaled DOGE could drop to around $0.08 despite its recent reclaim of the $0.10 level.  Analyst Warns Of Dogecoin Trap With A Crash Imminent In a TradingView analysis, Crypto Paradise predicted a potential sharp downside move for Dogecoin, although he noted that some market participants may just call it a healthy pullback. He revealed that the meme coin had…

Bitcoin Bulls See Their First Weekly Close Above 21-Week Resistance in Six Months

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Bitcoin (BTC) counts down the final days of April with a fresh attack on $80,000 as price teases key breakouts. Bitcoin sees its first weekly close above a key trend line since October 2025. Liquidity grabs ramp up as traders eye a potential support retest closer to $70,000. The Federal Reserve interest-rate decision and inflation data form macro volatility catalysts. Analysis sees the “end of capitulation” on Bitcoin as institutions shore up the market. US manufacturing data could allow BTC/USD to avoid a retest of its macro lows. Bitcoin closes…

Strategy Buys 3,273 Bitcoin for $255M, Total Holdings Hit 818,334 BTC

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Key Takeaways: Strategy acquired 3,273 BTC for $255 million on April 27, pushing total holdings to 818,334 BTC. The firm’s BTC Yield climbed to 9.6% YTD 2026, with an average cost of $75,537 per coin. Michael Saylor hit 5 million X followers on April 27 as Strategy’s bitcoin accumulation pace holds steady. Strategy Purchases 3,273 Bitcoin, Total Reserve Now Worth Over $75 Billion The purchase was made at an average price of roughly $77,906 per bitcoin. As of April 26, 2026, Strategy’s full bitcoin position was acquired for approximately $61.81…