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* THE PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, HAS CONFIRMED THAT HE WILL ORGANIZE AN OFFICIAL BITCOIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY EVENT AT MAR-A-LAGO NEXT MONTH.
* The official memecoin TRUMP surged by 54% following the announcement of an exclusive event with the US president at Mar-a-Lago, conditional on strict retention of the token by major investors.
* THE US SENATE HAS APPROVED A HISTORIC HOUSING BILL WITH A BAN ON CBDCs (CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY) UNTIL 2030.
* Abu Dhabi will be the meeting point for the debate on digital assets in the UAE.
The forum will bring together banks, regulators, and institutions to analyze the push of the ecosystem and its opportunities.
* The U.S. Congress is debating tax exemptions for small purchases with bitcoin under the "de minimis" principle.
The proposal seeks to eliminate the burden of declaring each coffee or daily expense, establishing a threshold of 300 dollars per transaction.
The debate faces two positions on whether to extend the benefit to bitcoin or limit it to regulated stablecoins.
* Terry Duffy, CEO of CME Group, warned that an intervention by the Trump administration in the derivatives markets to try to control the price of oil would cause a "biblical disaster."
The executive rejected that the Treasury acts as an artificial operator following the rise of WTI crude oil, which has already surpassed 95 dollars and has risen 34% so far in March.
* JP Morgan comments that if the Strait of Hormuz is not cleared this weekend, they will have a deficit of 12 million barrels DAILY at the GLOBAL level.
* Although Tether and Circle reach record capitalizations, their combined dominance in the stablecoin market has fallen to 84% amid the rapid expansion of competitors and an ecosystem that already exceeds 230 million global users.
* BlackRock's new ETF based on ether (ETH) with staking debuted in the United States with USD 15.5 million in volume and more than USD 100 million under management.
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* New taxes in Paraguay could drive away bitcoiners. The director of BTCParaguay warns of potential damage to the local ecosystem due to the new tax ordinance.
* The majority of short-term Bitcoin investors are currently at unrealized losses. This is something Glassnode sees as a hallmark of bear markets.
* ARK Invest published a report projecting between 10 and 20 years before quantum computing could threaten Bitcoin's cryptography, framing the risk as a gradual five-stage process, not as a single catastrophic event.
65.4% of the bitcoin supply is in non-vulnerable addresses, but 1.7 million BTC in old P2PK addresses are considered lost and would be the most likely target of future quantum attacks.
Opinions in the ecosystem are divided: while figures like Vitalik Buterin anticipate the threat before 2028, Adam Back agrees with ARK and places it one or two decades away.