Top crypto prices by market cap. coingecko.com. Crypto news this week...a mix of some older/recent/relevant stories and new. Also, my usual story or two in the world of AI.

Stories: 1) Bhutan's Kingdom is harnessing hydropower for crypto mining.

2) IMF recognizes CBDCs as the future.

3) Hacked crypto accounts on sale for as low as $610 on dark web.

4) Dogecoin price analysis

5) Crypto Exchange Poloniex settles case with US OFAC.

6) Crypto will outperform gold, real estate and stocks...Raoul Pal

7) Circle launches cross-chain USDC transfer protocol.

8) Visa shares plans for ambitious crypto product.

10) Kraken asks San Fransisco court to intervene against IRS demands.

11) Metaverse division $4B loss drags on positive first quarter for Meta.

12) Gary Gensler links crypto with cash in 2018 video.

13) Elizabeth Warren pushing De Facto on crypto in the US.

14) Venmo to introduce Fiat to crypto payments.

15) MultiverseX, formerly Elrond, seeing significant growth.

AI today: Google AI model developed unexpected skills. qz.com: Bings AI chatbot unsettled US reporter. Bings AI search engine was created by OpenAI the makers of ChatGPT: Engineer at Google was fired for saying it's AI had come to life. futurism.com.

Crypto news sources: cryptoglobe.com, cryptopolitan.com, ambcrypto.com, dailyhodl.com, cointelegraph.com.

BTC price analysis through today. Dashboard Metrics and recent News in Bitcoin.

1) Cardano-Based wrapped Bitcoin (cBTC) Token goes live on Testnet.

2) Civ Kit: A peer to peer electronic market system.

3) Bitcoin Ordinals extension inaccessibility leads to double-spend attacks on 1st BRC-20 wallet provider.

3) Venezuela cracks down on Bitcoin mining amid corruption investigation.

4) North Carolina Legislature proposes bill banning Bitcoin payments to the State.

5) Satoshi era wallet comes to life after 12 yrs.

6) 700m users of Telegram can now buy, receive, withdraw and trade Bitcoin p2p.

7) Tornado cash developer Alexey Pertsev freed pending trial.

8) Gemini introduces a non US derivatives platform.

9) Coinbase gets Bermuda license.

10) Tor to implement proof of work (PoW) Client Puzzle to mitigate DoS attacks.

11) AI Corner: Magazine published fake AI generated Michael Schumaker interview...Editor In Chief fired.

Sources : cryptopolitan.com, coindesk.com, nobsbitcoin.com, btctimes.com, dailyhodl.com, Decrypt.co, usatoday.com

Do your own research. Any information provided here can be sourced. This podcast and / or the MIB Crew do not offer to sell or purchase crypto. Our focus is communal wealth and educating the Diaspora on the benefits of investing in this asset class for extra income, and establishing generational wealth.

The stories this week. A mix of slightly older and new stories.

Show Highlights: Top 15 cryoto Prices by coingecko.com

1 Shapella hard fork was executed on main net.

2 OpenAI finds support from Japan.

3 Winklevoss twins infuse Gemini with $100M loan.

4 Elon Musk reportedly buys thousands of GPU for Twitter AI project.

5 Tech giant Aibaba to roll out CHATGPT competitor AI.

6 Mastercard launches NFT gated musician accelerator program.

7 Hacker mints 1 quadrillion yUSTD after exploiting old Yearn.finance contract.

8 Gold slides on higher US Treasury Yields.

9 Stablecoins at forefront of developments in tokenized money, says Bank of England.

10 Congress is 'starting from scratch' on stablecoin legislation.

11 Recent hacking of Ethereum wallets have nothing to do with metamask.

12 Voyager's $1B deal with Binance.US moves forward.

13 Trezor wallet adds coinjoin feature to Bitcoin transactions.

14 Elon Musk to launch truth seeking artificial intelligence platform TruthGPT

15 People are now worshipping AI Gods.

16 Bangladesh to pay Russian nuclear firm in yuan, further sign of de-dollarization.

17 US Court issued summons to Tron"s Justin Sun.

sources: cointelegraph.com, ambcrypto.com, news.bitcoin.com, Decrypt.co, dailyhodl.com, globaltimes.cn.

Do your own research. Any information provided here can be sourced. This podcast and / or the MIB Crew do not offer to sell or purchase crypto. Our focus is communal wealth and educating the Diaspora on the benefits of investing in this asset class for extra income, and establishing generational wealth.

Market price action with coingecko.com 🦎. Bitcoin metrics today with the dashboard. Bitcoin news this week: 1) BTC price heading under $30K? cointelegraph.com. 2) Bitcoin Halving a yr away, history suggests the start of another bull run.cnbc.com. 3) Bitcoin miners jolted by US electricity prices. ambcrypto.com. 4) Gridless is extending power to Rural Africa. coindesk.com. 5) Sweden drives final nail into it's Bitcoin mining industry with tax hike (6,000%). coindesk.com. 6) Jim Cramer's Bitcoin blunder: Mad Money followers lost out on a 23% surge. cryptopolitan.com. 7) Tesla selling Bitcoin last year turned out to be a $500M mistake. cointelegraph.com. 8) Bitcoin Futures and options to launch on London Stock Exchange. btctimes.com. 9) Montana's 'Right to Mine' Bitcoin bill ready to be signed into law. nobsbitcoin.com. 10) Strike partners with bitnob for transfers to Senegal, Benin, Rwanda, Ivory Coast & Togo. nobsbitcoin.com. 11) SEC Commissioner Hester 'crypto mom' Pierce details dissent against Gary Gensler Anti crypto agenda. dailyhodl.com. 12) SEC Chair Gary Gensler faces possible dismissal. cryptopolitan.com. 13) Arkansas Bitcoin Mining Bill headed to Governor's desk. nobsbitcoin.com. 14) Pocket Bitcoin acquired Bitkipi Wallet. nobsbitcoin.com. 15) Superhuman AI may eliminate Humanity. popularmechanics.com, by Tim Newcomb. Do your own research. Any information provided here can be sourced. And this podcast and or the MIB Crew do not offer to sell or purchase crypto. Our focus is communal wealth and educating the Diaspora on the benefits of investing in this asset class for extra income, and establishing generational wealth.

This Podcast was recorded Wednesday 14th April 2023. Cryppy and '47' continued the subject of the last Building Block session 'The CBDC Initiative". CBDC or Central Bank Digital Currency, defn. of, use cases, and reasons for implementation by Governments, financial institutions, and Central Banks the World over. CBDCs or Fiat currency in digital format is an effort by Financial Authorities to stay competitive in a decentralized economy. Cryppy and the '47' discuss these along with a few current stories on the pod. Balaji Srinivasan advises people to buy Bitcoin and makes case for probable seizure of the asset...story by Haseeb Shaheen. Ron DeSantis and RFK Jr rail against Fednow. (Brian Quarmby reports). US Treasury to demand EU to implement Sanctions against Russia. News.bitcoin.com. Do your own research. Any info provided can be sourced. We do not offer to sell or purchase Crypto on anyone's behalf. Our opinions are our own. The focus of this discussion is education and providing information to the Diaspora and interested persons in general.

Weekend prices with coingecko.com.🦎 Crypto price analysis, top ten cryptocurrencies in the news. 1) ETH Shanghai hard fork: ETH prices set for more gains vs Bitcoin in April. cointelegraph.com. 2) USDC issuer Circle submits applications to become a licensed crypto provider in France. cryptopolitan.com. 3) Tether supply hits $80B for 1st time since may 2022. cointelegraph.com. 4) Crypto Exchange SushiSwap exploited. dailyhodl.com. 5) Crypto expert Jeremy Hogan predicts possible outcome in SEC lawsuit against Ripple. cryptopolitan.com. 6) Polygon becomes 2nd largest gaming Blockchain. cointelegraph.com. 7) US Treasury Dept. claims criminals and North Korean 'cyber actors' use DeFi to Launder money. dailyhodl.com. 8) Understanding money Laundering: How common is it in crypto? Worldcoin.org/articles/cryptocurrency-money-laundering. 9) Doge retreats after Elon Musk's Twitter reverts back to blue bird logo. dailyhodl.com. 10) Texas lawmakers introduce Bill proposing establishing a good backed digital currency. news.bitcoin.com. 11) 23 states move to reclaim precious metals as legal tender. invezz.com. 12) Robinhood faces $10.2m fine from multiple US states over technical failures and investor harm. coindesk.com. 13) ChatGPT wrongly accused law professor of sexual assault. Decrypt.co. 14) ChatGPT may have helped someone win the lottery. digitaltrends.com. Do your own research. Any information provided here can be sourced. And this podcast and or the MIB Crew do not offer to sell or purchase crypto. Our focus is communal wealth and educating the Diaspora on the benefits of investing in this asset class for extra income, and establishing generational wealth.

Weekly prices (coingecko.com), Bitcoin metrics from the dash. Stories today: Chinese State-Owned company launches 2 crypto funds in Hong Kong. news.bitcoin.com. a) El Salvador Eliminates all taxes on technology innovations, Establishes a national Bitcoin office. b) Ledger announced new hardware wallet Stax...likely to be available now. c) El Salvadors Chivo wallet is flagging coinjoin transactions from Wasabi wallet. www.nobsbitcoin.com. 2) MicroStrategy's Bitcoin holdings reach 140,000 BTC after acquiring 1,045 more Bitcoins. news.bitcoin.com. 3) Bitcoin stamps emerge as new image storage trend on the Bitcoin blockchain. news.bitcoin.com. 4) Zebedee rolls out borderless payments feature. coindesk.com. 5) New EU AML rules may seek KYC checks for commercial Bitcoin payments over €1000. www.nobsbitcoin.com. 6) Hidden Treasure: Every modern copy of macOS contains a copy of Bitcoin's white paper. news.bitcoin.com. 7) Mama Bitcoin: Fishing for.female empowerment with crypto in West Africa. cointelegraph.com. 8) Peer to peer Bitcoin Exchange Paxful to suspend operations. coindesk.com. 9) Lyn Alden says Central Bankers would be insane not to be looking at BTC. dailyhodl.com. 10) Bitcoin thesis "softwar" becomes amazon best seller. Decrypt.co. 11) Nearly 10,000 silk road Bitcoin were sold by the U.S. Govt. www.btctimes.com. 12-14) ZeroSync partners with blockstream to sync Bitcoin nodes quickly from space. Nearly 50% of recent hash rate went to Foundry: Worlds largest mining pool popular among corporations, plus Bitcoin mining operational updates: CleanSpark, Marathon, Cipher, Bitfarms, Argo, TeraWulf, Stronghold. www.nobsbitcoin.com. 15) TRX founder Justin Sun wants to buy over $1.1 billion in BTC held by US Govt. dailyhodl.com. 16) Everyone on earth will die unless major AI changes are implemented. dailyhodl.com.

Our Weekend crypto stories, and some interesting macro events. Crypto prices by coingecko metrics 🦎 coingecko.com. 1) Trump NFTs (Trump cards) jump amidst Indictment. Strong quarter for NFT market. news.bitcoin.com. 2) Crypto Atms in decline more than 3,600 Bitcoin ATMs went offline. cointelegraph.com 3) German Stock Exchange Boerse Stuttgart to provide crypto custody through licensed Subsidiary. cryptopolitan.com 4) Killer use case: Citi says trillions in assets could be tokenized by 2030. cointelegraph.com 5) Bittrex shuts down US Crypto Exchange due to regulatory environment. Decrypt.co 6) Easy way to obtain crypto license in Dubai. Gofaizen and Sherle launches a new service. news.bitcoin.com 7) Binance concealed ties to China: Report by financial times. cointelegraph.com 8) Mysterious entity may be collecting BTC users' IP addresses - Bitcoin developer. cointelegraph.com 9) Mike Novogratz Laments US Govt. for saying nothing about AI Regulation. news.bitcoin.com 10) Elon Musk-led petition to halt AI development divides tech community. cointelegraph.com. 11) Man ends his life after AI chatbot encouraged him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change. euronews.com 12) The DEA quietly turned apple's AirTag into a surveillance tool. forbes.com. 13) Future of Banks has no Banks: AllianceBernstein Report. Dailyhodl.com 14) Petro Dollar..a definition...and ties to US dollar. Saudi Arabia cuts ties with the US for economic independence. cryptopolitan.com. Russia talks up prospects of BRICS countries developing new currency. cointelegraph.com. China executed 1st liquefied natural gas trade using yuan instead of the dollar. news.bitcoin.com. Do your own research. Any information provided here can be sourced. And this podcast and or the MIB Crew do not offer to sell or purchase crypto. Our focus is communal wealth and educating the Diaspora on the benefits of investing in this asset class for extra income, and establishing generational wealth.

Weekly market prices (top 10) coingecko.com.🦎. Current Bitcoin metrics with the dashboard. Stories today : 1) Law Firms white paper claims US Bank regulators are waging a 'Clandestine Financial War' against crypto businesses. 2) Former Goldman Sachs executive predicts three major pillars of power will control future crypto industry. dailyhodl.com. 3) Morgan Creek's Mark Yusko says there's no chance govt. can ban bitcoin (BTC) -here's why. dailyhodl.com. 4) Nasdaq aims to launch Bitcoin and crypto by end of Q2. btctimes.com. 5) MicroStrategy buys an additional 6,455 Bitcoin, Pays off Silvergate Loan. cryptoglobe.com. 6) Bitcoin faces liquidity crisis despite price surge- what's next? cryptopolitan.com. 7) Bitcoin millionaire Tim Draper advises startups to keep Bitcoin as a hedge against a 'Domino' run on the banks. news.bitcoin.com. 8) Jack Dorsey- Backed 'Spiral' plots course for mainstream adoption of Bitcoin's Lightning Network. Decrypt.co 9) Bitcoin layer 2 Stacks (STX) Token a top performer in March. Coindesk.com 10) Zebedee debuts global payment service powered by Bitcoin's Lightning Network. Coindesk.com. 11) President Nayib Bukele touts El Salvador as the 'New Land of the Free' news.bitcoin.com. 11) El Salvador Bitcoin Bond: What we know so far, by Bitcoin Gandalf, a Feature piece. news.bitcoin.com. Do your own research. Any information provided here can be sourced. And this podcast and or the MIB Crew do not offer to sell or purchase crypto. Our focus is communal wealth and educating the Diaspora on the benefits of investing in this asset class for extra income, and establishing generational wealth.

Weekend price action Using coingecko.com metrics 🦎. A bit of news this weekend: 1) US Treasury Financial Stability Oversight Council held unscheduled meeting. cointelegraph.com 2) Shares of Deutsche Bank, Other Euro Nanks Tumble. news.bitcoin.com 3) Billionaire Bill Ackman on U.S. Banking Crisis. 'I fear we are heading for a train wreck'. news.bitcoin.com 4) Robert Kyosaki says Fed Rate Hikes will crash stocks, bonds, real estate, and US Dollar. news.bitcoin.com. 5) The U.K has created Crypto Banking Problems. coindesk.com 6) Venezuela Regulators shut down some Crypto Exchanges and Mining Farms. news.bitcoin.com. 7) 80 Crypto Firms Interested in establishing presence in Hong Kong. news.bitcoin.com. 8) Gary Gensler Lobbied in U.K, Canada, for tightening Crypto rules. Coinstats.app. 9) Nasdaq aims to launch Crypto Custody Services in 2nd quarter. news.bitcoin.com. 10) Bitcoin could easily Rio by 140% amid Banking crisis says Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino. dailyhodl.com. 11) Top trades says Bitcoin (BTC) flashing 2020 style accumulation. dailyhodl.com. 12) US Govt. remains a top Bitxoin holder with seized stash valued at $5.6 Billion. news.bitcoin.com 13) 3 hot Cryptos to buy before its too late. Investorplace.com. 14) Polkadot, Kusama, and Cardano leading Space in terms of 'Notable Github Activity' dailyhodl.com. 15) XRP whales amass nearly half a Billion coins as traders shower confidence on a win in Ripple Case. Zycrypto.com. 16) In Chat Tether transfers introduced in Telegram. news.bitcoin.com 17) Do Kwon to appeal against court's decision to extend detention cointelegraph.com 18) Former SEC Branch Chief explains why the US has jurisdiction in Do Kwon case. coindesk.com. 19) Crypto whales pounce on Arbitrum an Ethereum scaling solution. dailyhodl.com. 20) What are stealth addresses? Decrypt.co. Lastly, Ancient Customer feedback: 3750 yr old customer complaint. Cuneiform tablet. By Chris Baraniuk. newsscientist.com. Do your own research. Any information provided here can be sourced. And this podcast and or the MIB Crew do not offer to sell or purchase crypto. Our focus is communal wealth and educating the Diaspora on the benefits of investing in this asset class for extra income, and establishing generational wealth.