Major blow to Russian oil exports. Ukrainian strikes damage 40% of Primorsk terminal's storage. At least eight tanks, some for diesel, affected. Fires visible in satellite imagery.

Lyn Alden tells CNBC: “Bitcoin is a buying opportunity.” “Once we see light at the end of the tunnel, those beaten down areas have a lot of upside.”

$280 million just vanished from Drift Protocol on Solana because someone was tricked into signing the wrong transaction. The attacker didn't find a bug in the code. They socially engineered a team member into pre-signing admin transactions using durable nonces, a Solana feature that lets signed transactions sit dormant for weeks before executing. The victim may not have even realized what they signed. There was no immediate on-chain footprint to trigger an alert. The signatures just waited until the attacker was ready. When they executed, it took minutes. 2 out of 5 multisig approvals was all they needed to take over Drift's Security Council, remove withdrawal limits, and drain over half the protocol's $550 million in TVL. $230 million in USDC was bridged to Ethereum through Circle's CCTP across 100+ transactions before anyone froze anything. Bitcoin doesn't have admin keys. It doesn't have a Security Council multisig. It doesn't have team members who can be socially engineered into draining the protocol. That's the difference.

US oil just crossed $112 a barrel. If it stays here for another two months, models show CPI inflation hitting 3.6%, the highest since September 2023.

Bitcoin dips below $67K as Trump signals US forces will “finish the job” in Iran soon.

Nasdaq futures are dropping fast as Trump states: "We are going to hit them very hard in the next two weeks."

President Trump addresses the Jewish community in a Passover message from the Resolute Desk: "With true faith, eternal hope and the power of prayer, nothing can stop the people of God."

ASA's Artemis II rocket blasts off from Kennedy Space Center, sending four astronauts on the first crewed lunar flyby in over 50 years.

Oil was at $55, as cheap as we've seen in 30 years. Then the war started. "A drawn-out conflict with oil between $90 and $150 gets you 6-7% inflation. Add a slowing labor market and you wind up in 1970s stagflation. I thought that was impossible." - Mel Mattison

Are the people making decisions making them for America? "Are Kushner and Witkoff totally allegiant to the United States? There are powerful people in government who factor Israeli interests into US strategic decisions." - Mel Mattison

Morgan Stanley just filed Amendment No. 4 to its spot Bitcoin ETF S-1. The Wall Street giant is getting closer.

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The first bitcoin-backed bond just got a credit rating from Moody's. That's the door opening to the $140 trillion fixed income market. New Hampshire's $100 million issuance received a provisional Ba2 rating, speculative grade, but that's not the point. The point is that bitcoin collateral just entered the credit ratings system for the first time. The structure: a borrower posts roughly 160% in bitcoin, held in custody by BitGo, through New Hampshire's Business Finance Authority as a conduit. No taxpayer money backs it. If collateral levels drop, liquidation triggers kick in. Repayment is tied to the bitcoin itself. Moody's evaluated it using traditional credit frameworks, the same ones applied to the global bond market. They rated it based on collateral risk, structural risk, and operational risk, with bitcoin's volatility being the primary factor keeping it in speculative territory. That distinction matters because institutional allocators, pension funds, endowments, insurance companies, can't buy what they can't rate. A Moody's rating, even a speculative one, gives compliance departments something to work with. It puts bitcoin-backed debt into a category that portfolio managers can actually evaluate using existing frameworks. The timing lines up. The same week, the US Labor Department proposed a rule to allow alternative assets including bitcoin in 401(k) retirement accounts. Arizona advanced two bills through its House Rules Committee, one allowing state funds to invest up to 10% in bitcoin, another creating a digital assets reserve fund. The walls between bitcoin and traditional fixed income are coming down one rating at a time.

The crew heading to the Moon today: Reid Wiseman: Commander. Navy veteran, former Chief of NASA's Astronaut Office. 165 days on the ISS, 13 hours of spacewalks. Victor Glover: Pilot. Navy aviator and test pilot. Piloted SpaceX Crew-1 to the ISS. Will be the first Black astronaut to travel beyond low Earth orbit. Christina Koch: Mission Specialist. Holds the record for longest single spaceflight by a woman at 328 consecutive days. Will be the first woman on a lunar mission. Jeremy Hansen: Mission Specialist. Canadian Space Agency. Former CF-18 fighter pilot. First non-American astronaut on a lunar mission. The first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. Godspeed.

Historic moment. Artemis II is poised to return Americans to lunar orbit, the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit in over 50 years.

Venezuela's Acting President Delcy Rodríguez wishes the Jewish community a Happy Passover.

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After many years of being in the bitcoin space, we're excited to announce our next chapter. Introducing $MARTY. Fair launch, community-driven, 69 billion supply. Presale is live.

BlackRock just amended its S-1 filing for the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF ($BITA). Combines IBIT holdings with option premiums for yield in flat/sideways markets. Eric Balchunas notes potential launch in weeks, not months.

No clear off-ramp means markets move to the tariff lows. A clean resolution still means a permanent oil premium that hamstrings the Fed. "The only way out is coordinated global central bank intervention. That's the golden opportunity for gold and Bitcoin." - Mel Mattison