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Bitcoin trader issues 'overbought' warning as BTC price eyes $84K

by | March 31, 2025 | Bitcoin | 0 Comments

Bitcoin (BTC) ticked higher at the March 31 Wall Street open as traders stayed risk-averse on the short-term BTC price outlook.BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewBitcoin RSI teases bearish continuationData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and...
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Experts Forecast 120% Dogecoin Rally In April, But It Might Not Be Enough To Outpace Mutuum Finance: Guest Post by Cryptopolitan_News

by | March 31, 2025 | Bitcoin | 0 Comments

Dogecoin (DOGE) is now trading at $0.19, up 42% since its March low of $0.1432 and analysts have signalled a potential 120% April rally. Technical indicators reveal a break of a three-month descending trendline, with little opposing movement up to $0.31. But quietly...
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Groundbreaking Expansion: Archax’s US Entry Ignites Tokenized Asset Revolution: Guest Post by ItsBitcoinWorld

by | March 31, 2025 | Bitcoin | 0 Comments

Exciting news for the world of digital assets! UK-regulated crypto exchange Archax is making a bold move across the pond, setting its sights on the lucrative US market. In a groundbreaking development, Archax has acquired Globacap Private Markets Inc., a firm...
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SEC Ends Major Crypto Lawsuits Under Trump’s Directive: Guest Post by Kanalcoin

by | March 31, 2025 | Bitcoin | 0 Comments

Trump's SEC concludes key crypto lawsuits, impacting market dynamics. Explore implications and historical context. Read original article on kanalcoin.com
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AI-Infused Blockchain Ambient to ‘Replace Bitcoin,’ Says Co-Founder

by | March 31, 2025 | Bitcoin | 0 Comments

A new artificial intelligence-infused blockchain with Andreseen Horowitz’s backing is “ultimately designed as a replacement for Bitcoin,” according to its co-founder Travis Good.

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The far-fetched claim is rooted in what Good prognosticates as unvarnished reality: Bitcoin’s encryption mechanisms are “getting really stale” and could be “completely obsolete within five years,” creating a business conundrum for the miners behind it.
“You’ve got people who’ve invested billions of dollars in hash power for securing a network in ASICs,” he told CoinDesk at this year’s ethDenver conference. “And the question is like, where do they all go?”
His answer is Ambient, a blockchain with deep capabilities in the AI space – the “future economy,” as Good puts it – that could become a “decentralized competitor to OpenAI.” The network operates on a proof-of-work mechanism with familiar appeal to bitcoin miners, he said, making it an easy switch.

“It’s a useful proof of work network, which we don’t think anyone has ever done well in crypto,” Good said.
Many crypto projects have attempted to fuse the two buzzy tech trends on the belief that blockchains and decentralized crowdsourcing can steer AI better toward delivering for humanity than singular, private corporations possibly could.
One of the biggest and best-funded is Bittensor. But Good claims the market leader is woefully deficient because it doesn’t actually run AI models on blockchain, despite its original intention to “be this global computer.” His alternative, Ambient, cooks AI into its core.
Whether Bitcoin miners – let alone users – would actually embrace a radically new and different network likely hinges on Ambient’s economic success. Good seeks for Ambient to deliver super-intelligent AI fast, cheap, and critically, in the open, so that users get the answers they paid for.
While Ambient’s security rhymes with Bitcoin’s, the network itself runs like Solana.
Ambient raised $7.2 million in seed funding from a16z’s crypto accelerator program as well as Delphi Digital, one of the VC world’s hungriest funds for crypto-AI crossover tech.
“Everyone in crypto is currently using centralized AI to power their apps, to power their frontend,” said Alex Golding, a venture associate at Delphi. He thinks that’s a big issue because it deprives users of understanding what the models are trained on and exposes them to getting hoodwinked with answers derived from inferior models.

“Verified inference” by miners (the heart of their rewards mechanism) acts as a provenance fact-checker, ensuring that answers spat out by Ambient originate from the model people paid to use.
“If you don’t have verified inference, you’re guaranteed to get rugged,” Good said, adding a hyperbolic warning: “Nation state actors are going to poison your model and just do fun stuff, like we saw with Lazarus,” North Korea’s hackers.

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AI-Infused Blockchain Ambient to ‘Replace Bitcoin,’ Says Co-Founder | Headlines | News

by | March 31, 2025 | Bitcoin | 0 Comments

A new artificial intelligence-infused blockchain with Andreseen Horowitz's backing is "ultimately designed as a replacement for Bitcoin," according …
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Circle Hires JPMorgan, Citi With Plan to File IPO in Late April: Fortune | Headlines | News

by | March 31, 2025 | Bitcoin | 0 Comments

Circle Internet Financial, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has reportedly hired investment banks JPMorgan Chase and Citi as the underwriters of a …
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Bitcoin worst Q1 in 7 years clashes with record inflation fears and tariff chaos — is this just the beginning of a larger unwind?: Guest Post by crypto.news

by | March 31, 2025 | Bitcoin | 0 Comments

What changed in just three months to push Bitcoin from $109K to $82K? Was it just inflation data, or is something bigger happening behind the scenes? Bitcoin’s coldest Q1 in 7 years Just three months ago, the atmosphere in the…
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PEPE Bleeds Out as Meme Coin Momentum Fades – Is the Bottom In or Just Beginning?

by | March 31, 2025 | Bitcoin | 0 Comments

Popular meme coin Pepe is bleeding out right now, but that hasn’t stopped investors from snapping up a new AI-integrated Pepe iteration.
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US debt crisis may push Bitcoin as a reserve currency rival, says BlackRock CEO

by | March 31, 2025 | Bitcoin | 0 Comments

The rising US debt crisis poses a significant threat to the dollar’s global dominance, potentially boosting Bitcoin’s role as an alternative reserve asset, according to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. In his 2025 annual letter, Fink cautioned that the unchecked expansion of...
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Ether-Bitcoin Ratio Slumps to 5-Year Low as Traders Seek Less Risky Assets: Van Straten

Ether-Bitcoin Ratio Slumps to 5-Year Low as Traders Seek Less Risky Assets: Van Straten

by | Mar 31, 2025 |

Ether (ETH) has dropped 39% this year relative to bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency, taking the ratio between the two to the lowest in almost five years as a riskier macroeconomic environment weighs on the second-largest cryptocurrency.
At the current level, 1 ETH is the equivalent of 0.02191 BTC. That’s the least since May 2020, when ether was trading around $200 and bitcoin just under $10,000. Today the ETH price is about $1,800 and the BTC price around $82,000.

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The underperformance is notable because it’s the first time ether has weakened against bitcoin in the 12 months after a BTC reward halving. On April 20, 2024, the payment Bitcoin miners received for confirming blocks on the blockchain was reduced by 50% to 3.125 BTC.
In previous halving cycles, ether outperformed bitcoin in the first year after a halving. This time, the ratio has dropped by more than 50%.

That’s partly because the threat of a tariff-driven trade war, persistent inflation and elevated bonds yields globally have driven investors to assets seen as more liquid and less risky. Gold, the ultimate haven, has climbed to record highs, and in the cryptocurrency market bitcoin is seen as a safer bet than ether.
This relative performance also marks one of ether’s worst quarterly performances against bitcoin in several years, according to data from Glassnode. The last time ether underperformed bitcoin to a similar degree was in the third quarter of 2019, when the ratio dropped to 0.0164, a quarterly decline of 46%.

ETH/BTC Quarterly Price Performance (Glassnode)
This current slump mirrors the underperformance seen in 2019 and further highlights ether’s relative weakness, especially when compared to other layer-1 assets. The SOLETH ratio — measuring the value of Solana’s SOL relative to ether — is up 24% year-to-date to 0.07007. This indicates that SOL has significantly outperformed ether in 2025, despite the token itself itself being down 35% year-to-date.
UPDATE (March 31, 9:25 UTC): Adds macroeconomic environment in fifth paragraph.

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