Bitcoin is down 7% at $54,100
Ethereum is down 9% at $4,032
and Binance Coin is down 7% at $585

Siacoin up 15%
Ankr Network up 16%

Hilary Clinton calls for increased regulation in crypto to protect the dollar’s reserve status.

Chainnews is shutting down amid wider moves by Chinese censors.

Regulators in South Korea are calling for criminal punishment for crypto market manipulation.

Grayscale calls metaverse a trillion dollar a year market.

Links:

• China's crypto censorship reaches over news outlets and mining pools
• Hillary Clinton: New Rules Needed To Guard Against Tech Company Abuses - YouTube
• S. Korean Regulators Call for Criminal Punishments for Crypto Market Manipulation
• Grayscale on the Metaverse

Bitcoin is up .5% at $41,690
Ethereum is up 1% at $2,599
and Binance Coin is up 1% at $341

Quant Network up 27%
SiaCoin up 19%
The Graph up 15%

Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said the US has to have a digital dollar

Goldentree asset management may have been adding undisclosed bitcoin to its balance sheet.

Livepeer raises $20M to take on video streaming platform giants.

The US Marshals pick anchorage digital for custody.

Luxor technologies launched an index for crypto mining stocks.

Links:

• Decentralized Video Protocol Livepeer Raises $20M to Take On Streaming Giants - CoinDesk
• US Marshals Choose Anchorage Digital to Custody, Service Seized Digital Assets | by Anchorage Digital | Anchorage Digital | Jul, 2021 | Medium
• Bitcoin Mining Stocks | HashrateIndex
• GoldenTree, $45b Asset Manager, Is Buying Bitcoin - The Street Crypto: Bitcoin and cryptocurrency news, advice, analysis and more
• UPDATE 1-Fed's Brainard: Can't wrap head around not having U.S. central bank digital currency

Bitcoin is down slightly at $59,445
Ethereum is up slightly at $2004
and Binance Coin is down 1% at 343.64

Helium up 23%
Siacoin up 16%
EOS up 15%

Coinbase confirms their hotly anticipated IPO for April 14th.

Morgan Stanley files for exposure to bitcoin.

The weeknd is set to drop an NFT collection.

Polychain is leading Greenwood’s $2M seed round.

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty hits record high.

Links:

• The Weeknd on Twitter: "Excited to announce that my first NFT drop is taking place on Saturday at 2:00 pm EST on @niftygateway. The collection will feature new music and limited edition art. I developed the artwork with Strange Loop Studios https://t.co/627BO4JekK" / Twitter
• SEC Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Filing
• Coinbase on Twitter: "We’re happy to announce that earlier today, the SEC declared our S-1 registration statement effective and that we expect our direct listing to occur on April 14, 2021, with our Class A common stock trading on the @NASDAQ under the ticker symbol COIN. https://t.co/cwRZWmj9Pv" / Twitter
• Bitcoin's mining difficulty adjusts to record high as new miners come online
• Polychain leads DeFi lending protocol Greenwood's $2 million seed round

Bitcoin is up 1% at $59,217
Ethereum is up .5% at $1,826
and Binance Coin is up slightly at 267.68

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
SiaCoin up 21%
Theta Token up 17%
Avalanche up 15%

Wyoming’s DAO law passed in the state senate in a landslide vote.

Japan’s SBI has opened its bitcoin mining pool to the public.

DOJ brings charges to operators of unregistered New Hampshire exchange.

Need a job? Work in the metaverse.

Links:

• SBI Pool Announcement
• DAO Bill Detail
• Six Charged with Crimes Related to Virtual Currency Exchange Business | USAO-NH | Department of Justice
• This Casino in Decentraland Is Hiring (for Real) - CoinDesk

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Bitcoin is up 2% at $11,311
Ethereum is up 4% at $372
and XRP is up 0.5% at 25 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
UMA up 36%
Arweave up 22%
and Siacoin up 15%

VC Firm Paradigm hires white hat hacker Samczsun

Government officials in Shenzhen host digital currency lottery as part of the digital currency electronic payment trial.

Ethereum 2.0 developers are opening up a new bug bounty program

The US DHS' R&D arm is working with 5 blockchain firms for innovation.

Links:

• Chinese city to host digital currency lottery as part of DCEP trial - The Block
• Changing Lanes
• dannyryan on Twitter: "Announcing the eth2 bounty program! https://t.co/S6SHqN4D2q The spec and attacknet programs are now deprecated in favor of this general program for all of eth2 Happy 🐛 hunting! (Note! This is a sister program to https://t.co/8Zy1qo3S1i program and will be run in parallel)" / Twitter
• US Homeland Security Funds Anti-Forgery Blockchain Projects in Latest R&D Round - CoinDesk

Bitcoin is down 1% at $9,436
Ethereum is down 1% at $236
and XRP is down 1.5% at 19 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Verge up 29%
Siacoin up 15%
and Baer Chain up 15%

The New York Times has released details about its News Provenance Project.

Paul Le Roux has been sentenced to a prison term.

DADA art collective is exploring the intersection of protest and modern art on the blockchain.

Links:

• Drug Dealer Just Sentenced to 25 Years Hoped to Build a Better Bitcoin Miner - CoinDesk
• How an Art Collective Is Using Blockchain to Protest Police Brutality - CoinDesk

Bitcoin is up 8% 8,880
Ethereum is up 1% at $212
and XRP is down 2% at 21 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Siacoin up 28%
Electroneum up 15%
and CyberVein up 19%

Telegram is bowing to the wishes of the court ruling that it cannot launch its blockchain or issue gram tokens until its SEC case is resolved.

Tencent has debuted a blockchain accelerator called Tencent Industrial Accelerator.

During the price rally yesterday, Coinbase had some major connectivity issues and outages

Links:

• Chinese tech giant Tencent launches blockchain accelerator program - The Block
• Telegram now delays launch of its blockchain by one more year, ready to return investor money - The Block
• Coinbase Suffers Temporary Outage as Bitcoin Soars as High as $8,900 - CoinDesk

Bitcoin is up 0.5% at $10,248
XRP is up 1% at 33 cents
and Ethereum is up 1% at $270

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Bytecoin up 25%
Steem up 19%
Siacoin up 15%

The IOTA Foundation pauses its network, saying between $300K and $1.2M worth of tokens stolen from users of Trinity wallet.

US Government agencies are seeking millions of dollars in additional funding for to support their cryptocurrency oversight and enforcement efforts.

The key management network Torus has exited beta and open sourced its codebase.

Links:

• IOTA Foundation pauses network, says between $300K and $1.2M worth of tokens stolen from users of Trinity wallet - The Block
• U.S. agencies seek millions in new funding to bolster crypto efforts, budget documents show - The Block
• Key management network Torus exits beta, open-sources its codebase - The Block