Telegram Has Been Downloaded Over 50M Times in Iran, Despite Ban: Durov

The Iranian government’s attempt to block the Telegram messaging application in the country has backfired, as users find ways to circumvent national firewalls and online controls, according to Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov. “Iran banned Telegram years ago,” Durov said on Friday; however, tens of millions of users in the country have managed to access the…

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Bitcoin tends to outperform gold and stocks after global shocks, Mercado Bitcoin finds

Bitcoin BTC$67,358.71 tends to outperform traditional safe haven assets like gold in the two months following major global crises, according to new analysis from Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin. The study, led by Rony Szuster, head of research at the Latin American crypto platform, examined 60-day windows after economic or geopolitical shocks such as the…

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Bitcoin whales are selling the most aggressively on record while ETFs and Strategy keep buying

The most visible bitcoin buyers in the world are buying at near-record pace. It is not enough. A CryptoQuant weekly report showed overall 30-day apparent demand at negative 63,000 BTC as of late March, meaning the broader market is selling far faster than institutions can absorb. ETF purchases hit approximately 50,000 BTC in the rolling…

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Solana news: The network’s post-quantum push reveals harsh tradeoff: security vs speed

Crypto has spent years obsessing over speed, fees and scalability. Now it may have to confront a more existential question: what happens when its core security breaks? That question is moving from theory to urgency. Quantum computers, machines that use the principles of quantum physics to process information in fundamentally different ways than today’s computers,…

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