Kalshi says new monitoring tools caught three US political candidates placing trades tied to their own campaigns. All three are now permanently banned.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kalshi-bans-three-us-candidates-insider-trading-april-2026/

A NiceHash EasyMining customer paid roughly $750 for rented hashpower and hit Bitcoin block 945711 solo, netting about $235,000 in subsidy and fees.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/nicehash-easymining-user-750-to-235000-solo-bitcoin-block-april-2026/

Bitcoin hit $79,485 intraday on April 22, then slipped back as oil prices rose and short-term holders who bought near the ceiling took the exit.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-80k-rejection-oil-shock-recent-buyers-exit-april-2026/

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko deployed an immutable Percolator binary and put a bounty on anyone who can exploit it, raising the stakes for the scheduler.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/solana-percolator-immutable-binary-yakovenko-bounty-april-2026/

The Crypto Fear and Greed Index rose from 32 to 46 in 24 hours, the largest single-day climb in three months as BTC holds $78K.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/crypto-fear-greed-index-32-to-46-biggest-daily-jump-three-months-april-2026/

Finding Satoshi, a new documentary, argues Hal Finney and Len Sassaman jointly built Bitcoin. Here is what the film claims and why the theory holds up.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/finding-satoshi-documentary-hal-finney-len-sassaman-april-2026/

The KelpDAO exploiter converted nearly all 75,700 ETH, roughly $175M, into BTC over 36 hours, locking in gains and complicating recovery.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kelpdao-hacker-75700-eth-btc-swap-175-million-april-2026/

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams says his X follower count jumped from a few hundred to ~600 a day, pointing to AI bots as proof of the dead internet theory.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/hayden-adams-uniswap-dead-internet-theory-ai-bots-april-2026/

Peter Schiff labeled Strategy's STRC preferred share an obvious Ponzi and hosted a public X Space challenging Michael Saylor to defend the structure on air.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/peter-schiff-strategy-strc-ponzi-challenge-saylor-april-2026/

A Cointelegraph analysis argues FTX's estate would hold $114B in assets today if liquidators had not offloaded Anthropic, Solana, and SpaceX stakes early.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ftx-114-billion-counterfactual-anthropic-solana-spacex-april-2026/