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Summary ⚈ Roswell has become the first US city to create a Bitcoin reserve from donations. ⚈ Funds aim to reduce senior water bills and support emergency relief if needed. ⚈ Reserve locked for 10 years, with limited spending allowed after surpassing $1 million. Roswell, New Mexico, famous for a UFO incident alleged to have occurred near the city in 1947, has become the first city in the United States to establish a Bitcoin (BTC) reserve. The news was first broken by pseudonymous cryptocurrency YouTuber Crypto Rover in an April 30 X post. BREAKING: CITY OF ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO SETS UP STRATEGIC #BITCOIN RESERVE AS FIRST CITY! pic.twitter.com/D6r06vBaLx — Crypto Rover (@rovercrc) April 30, 2025 Per the shared document, the Roswell Strategic Bitcoin Reserve has received a “first seed” donation of 0.3050233 BTC, worth roughly $2,906 at the time of receipt. How the Roswell Bitcoin reserves will be used The UFO capital’s intention is for the reserv...

The digital collectibles market is showcasing remarkable perseverance as we approach the end of April 2025, with recent data revealing fascinating shifts in NFT buyer behavior and sales patterns across multiple blockchain networks. The latest market data shows a sustained interest in digital collectibles, with daily sales hovering above $10 million. Below, we have listed some of the top-selling NFT collections this last week of April 2025: 1. Pudgy Penguins NFT Collection Pudgy Penguins, a renowned non-fungible token series from the globally acknowledged digital asset firm Igloo featuring a fixed edition of 8,888 penguin cartoon birds hosted on the Ethereum blockchain network, is this week’s most-selling NFT collection in the global NFT market. In the past 24 hours, the Pudgy Penguins have recorded a trading sales volume of 198 ETH. The Pudgy Penguins NFT collection has a market cap of $182 million and a floor price of $20,503. 2. Doodles NFT Collection Doodles, a non-fungible...

On June 5, 2021, a crowd of thousands in the US heard that El Salvador had adopted bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender. After a few days of celebration, speculation about other countries following suit immediately captured their collective imagination. Although most countries were ambivalent about BTC prior to the news, a wave of media attention prompted rumors and scheduled meetings with various heads of state. Over the years, predictions by various dignitaries sustained the faith of additional countries adopting BTC. All of those predictions failed, however. As of publication time, BTC is not legal tender in any country — not even El Salvador. Below is a summary of some of the failed attempts by sovereign nations to adopt BTC as legal tender. Although the reasons for failure were unique to each nation, the outcome was exactly the same . Central African Republic Second to El Salvador itself, the next most eligible country to have adopted BTC as legal tender was...

Summary ⚈ A crypto trader made a $669,188 profit from five successful Fartcoin swing trades. ⚈ The trader swapped 1,185,436 Fartcoin for 78,750 Official Trump tokens on April 26. ⚈ The move may aim for a leaderboard event with Trump, not just short-term profit. One savvy crypto trader has executed five Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) swing trades since mid-March — and all of them were profitable. To be more precise, the account associated with the following address: DiKD8kVJpyaZUSNZL4gcuHix6bmG29ELa3XZkQLBYFm4 , has earned a profit of $669,188 through those trades, per data from Lookonchain . Fartcoin swing trades. Source: Lookonchain However, despite the impressive winning streak, data retrieved by Finbold from Solscan indicates that this trader exchanged all of his Fartcoin — some 1,185,436 tokens, for 78,750 Official Trump (TRUMP) on April 26. Fartcoin – Official Trump swap transaction details. Source: Solscan Could this crypto trader’s Official Trump acquis...

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Source: Uber Volkswagen Group of America and Uber Technologies have unveiled a long-term partnership that will place thousands of fully electric, self-driving ID. Buzz Autonomous Driving (AD) vans on the Uber ride-hailing platform over the next ten years. Announced on 24 April, the agreement begins with on-road testing in Los Angeles later this year. It targets a commercial roll-out 2026, positioning the scheme as one of the largest robotaxi programmes yet attempted in the United States.​ Roll-out timetable and first launch city Under the memorandum of understanding, a pilot phase is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2025. Each van will carry a trained safety driver who can assume control at any moment, a requirement Volkswagen and Uber say will remain until the technology delivers consistent real-world performance. Subject to state and municipal approvals, paying passengers should be able to hail the service through the existing Uber app in 2026. Los Angeles was...

Shiba Inu is currently trading at the $0.000013 mark and has surged nearly 18% in the last two weeks. The price of SHIB experienced a major decline from late 2021 to 2023 and faced stagnation from 2024 to 2025. Early traders who took an entry position in the token made life-changing gains and are living a life of financial freedom. Even an investment of $1,000 has turned into millions for early investors who are enjoying profits like no other. Also Read: Is It Too Late? What $100 in Dogecoin Could Grow Into by 2035 Shiba Inu: An Investment of $1,000 Turns to $18 Million Source: Watcher Guru An investment of $1,000 in Shiba Inu made during its inception in August 2020 has turned into $17.76 million in 2025. That’s an uptick and return on investment (ROI) of approximately 1,776,781% in just five years. Data from Changelly shows that SHIB deleted six zeroes between the timeframe generating massive profits to investors. Also Read: Dogecoin (Doge) or Shiba Inu (SHIB): AI’s 2025 Profit ...

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Five volunteers in the United States have become the first people to see a colour that sits outside the normal bounds of human vision after researchers precisely targeted single photoreceptor cells in their eyes with laser light. The new hue, christened “Olo”, was described by participants as an extraordinarily vivid blue-green whose saturation exceeds anything found in nature or on a computer screen. Pinpointing the retina The feat relied on “Oz”, an adaptive-optics system that maps every cone cell in a patch of retina and then uses an eye-tracking laser to activate only the medium-wavelength (M) cones responsible for green perception. In normal circumstances, any light energetic enough to excite M cones also stimulates long- or short-wavelength cones, so the brain never receives a pure M-cone signal. By isolating that channel, the Berkeley and Seattle-based team elicited a pattern of neural activity the brain had never processed, leading to the appearance of a brand...

On Tuesday, April 22, Trump Media & Technology (NASDAQ: DJT) took another step toward becoming a cryptocurrency firm by entering a binding partnership with leading crypto exchange, Crypto.com, per the information shared with Finbold. Specifically, the company, together with the streaming platform Truth+, and the FinTech brand Truth.Fi, signed a new agreement with Crypto.com and Yorkville America Digital, an asset management firm described as being ‘America First’ to facilitate the launch of digital assets exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The parties to the binding deal all expressed their enthusiasm for the partnership. TMTG CEO and Chairman Devin Nunes revealed his firm is ‘gratified to work with great partners.’  Crypto.com’s Co-Founder and CEO, Kris Marszalek, said that the ‘partnership gives the Trump Media ETFs global distribution powered by the Crypto.com platform,’ and opined that the agreement is a ‘win’ for all the involved companies. DJT and Crypto.c...

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