ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Tether has announced plans to deploy existing and future computing power on the OCEAN mining pool.It is reported that the OCEAN mining pool was founded by Bitcoin Core senior developer Luke Dashjr, and this strategic move reinforces Tether's support for the resilience, transparency, and decentralization of Bitcoin infrastructure.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin.com, criminals in Pinellas County, Florida, are using fake security software McAfee pop-ups to deceive local residents by gaining unauthorized remote access to personal computers. Once they gain control, the scammers manipulate victims into transferring money through Bitcoin ATMs, purchasing gold bars, or withdrawing large amounts of cash, which are then picked up by couriers. A recent incident resulted in economic losses exceeding $530,000.The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office warns residents not to disclose sensitive information online or over the phone and urges residents to report any suspicious interactions. Sheriff's office officials emphasize the need to remain vigilant and state, "We advise citizens not to disclose personal or account information over the phone or computer."

ChainCatcher news, Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer released its unaudited production and mining operation update report for March, disclosing that the mining output for March was 114 BTC. As of March 31, 2025, it holds 1,156 Bitcoins, with a total managed hash rate reaching 24.2 EH/s.

ChainCatcher news, Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company BitFuFu released its unaudited production and mining operations update report for March, disclosing that it held 1,847 Bitcoins as of March 31, 2025, with a total managed hash rate of 20.6 EH/s.In addition, BitFuFu's mining output for March was 234 BTC, of which 58 BTC was self-mined and 176 BTC was from cloud mining.

ChainCatcher news, the bit.com trading platform (formerly BIT) has officially launched the world's first C2C cloud computing power mining model, providing ordinary investors with an opportunity to participate in Bitcoin mining at a lower price, while creating a power selling platform for miners where orders can be executed immediately.Currently, the platform has launched support for BTC, LTC, DOGE, and BELLS, and will gradually support more POW coins.In addition, the platform has also introduced a limited-time benefit. From April 9 to May 6, the first 500 users can try mining Bitcoin at zero cost and be the first to experience this innovative model.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the Argentine Chamber of Deputies has passed three bills to officially launch an investigation into President Javier Milei and related officials' involvement in the Libra meme coin controversy. The coin was issued by Kelsier Ventures in February, and Milei publicly promoted it on the X platform, claiming it would support local entrepreneurial projects. Subsequently, the coin's price surged to a market value of $2 billion before plummeting over 90%. Milei later denied any knowledge and withdrew his support, while the opposition called for impeachment. The prosecution has requested Interpol to issue a red notice for the project's CEO, Hayden Davis.

ChainCatcher news, Nick Timiraos, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal known as the "Fed's mouthpiece," stated that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is facing an increasingly difficult task.Economists, business owners, and investors generally believe that the uncertainty brought about by the sudden large-scale tariff increases introduced by Trump—many of which will take effect on Wednesday—will push the economy closer to recession by weakening employment and consumption. This may necessitate interest rate cuts to alleviate economic downward pressure.Meanwhile, the magnitude of the tariff increases could lead to significant price hikes for many imported goods, including raw materials used by domestic manufacturers. This may cause Federal Reserve officials to be concerned about inflation and support maintaining current interest rate levels, despite the growing risks to the economy and labor market."They are in a bind," said former Fed governor Laurence Meyer.The U.S. Congress has tasked the Federal Reserve with maintaining low and stable inflation and a healthy labor market. No U.S. president's policies have posed such a profound potential conflict for these two tasks of the Fed in over forty years.

ChainCatcher news, renowned hedge fund manager Bill Ackman issued an apology for his previous accusations against U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, stating that he should not have questioned his motives and believes that the latter is doing his best to serve the country on behalf of the president.He emphasized that tariffs are a significant policy mistake that could jeopardize the current economic progress of the United States, while also expressing a hope to ultimately be "slapped in the face," meaning that this policy could bring positive outcomes for the nation and the global economy.

ChainCatcher message, He Yi posted on platform X stating: "We are in contact with FDUSD, looking for people in the middle of the night, the announcement should also be made by FDUSD. Based on our judgment, we will audit FDUSD, but we also do not understand the details of their legal disputes."

ChainCatcher news, Greeks.live macro analyst Adam posted that today's largest options block trade was the purchase of BTC put options expiring on April 25, 2025, with a strike price of $60,000, totaling over 1,000 BTC, with a nominal value of nearly $100 million. This deep out-of-the-money position serves as a low-cost extreme risk hedge or high-leverage speculation, requiring a drop of over 30% from the current situation to be profitable.Currently, the main block trades are still focused on establishing and adjusting positions. This month, institutions have significantly strengthened their layout for put options, indicating that large players are pessimistic about this month's market, and the number of deep out-of-the-money protective positions has noticeably increased.

ChainCatcher news, OpenAI founder Sam Altman stated that the release of OpenAI's new version may be delayed, currently facing a computing power bottleneck, and services may sometimes slow down.Previously, Sam Altman mentioned on February 12 that he plans to launch GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 in the coming weeks or months. He also stated yesterday that a "new type of open-source weight language model" with reasoning capabilities will be released in the coming months. An open-source weight language model refers to a model that can be publicly used, downloaded, modified, or deployed. Although it is not as open as a fully open-source model, it represents a significant shift compared to the completely closed GPT-3 and GPT-4. OpenAI partially open-sourced the GPT-2 model in February 2019 and completed full open-sourcing in November of the same year.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, a large Bitcoin options trade recently occurred on the Deribit exchange, where a trader paid over $1 million to purchase 1,180 put options with a strike price of $70,000, expiring on April 25.

ChainCatcher news, according to inc42, venture capital firm Cornerstone Ventures announced that it will complete the fundraising of its second fund of $200 million by the end of this year. It is reported that the fund raised $40 million for the first time in January this year and plans to complete an additional $10-15 million in April.Cornerstone stated that its second fund will focus on industries such as financial services and technology markets, and it will also allocate part of the funds to support startups operating in the fields of Web3 and quantum computing.

ChainCatcher news, Li Bin, Deputy Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, recently stated at the Boao Forum for Asia sub-forum on "Finding Currency and Financial Stability in an Unstable World" that the State Administration of Foreign Exchange is highly concerned about the impact of the digital renminbi on the transmission of monetary policy and capital flows. It is also highly concerned about the use of virtual currencies for illegal cross-border fund transfers and is working to enhance its identification and monitoring capabilities in this area.

ChainCatcher news, the confidential computing network Arcium has announced the completion of its angel round financing, with investors covering multiple fields, including some community fundraising through echo.The total financing amount has reached 11 million USD. Investors include Jupiter co-founder Meow, MegaETH founding team member namik, and Jupiter co-founder Siong.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Arcium is a parallel trusted computing network. It provides developers and applications with a trustless, verifiable, and efficient framework to run trusted computing. Arcium aims to bring trust to every on-chain application and become a global computing network for the decentralized internet. The Multi-Party Computing Execution Environment (MXE) is the pillar of the Arcium network. They combine Multi-Party Computing (MPC), Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), and more to achieve encrypted computation.

ChainCatcher news, Pump.fun co-founder Alon responded during a podcast when asked about the competitive relationship with Radium's upcoming Launch Lab platform: "We are not afraid of any form of competition. This is not a dispute, but part of the business effort to provide the best products for users. In fact, many innovative platforms in the Ethereum ecosystem and other areas have borrowed some ideas from Pump.fun and iterated on them."Alon believes that multiple different niches will inevitably emerge, and these markets will require their own mechanisms to meet demand. This is an inevitable trend in the industry's development. "As a protocol, Pump.fun aims to be as universal as possible while covering more niches. But we also understand that we cannot cover all markets. Therefore, I look forward to seeing new mechanisms proposed by other teams. If any of them achieve great success, we would be happy to explore the possibility of collaboration."

ChainCatcher News, American cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence czar David Sacks stated: "This is a huge victory for cryptocurrency. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will follow the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in eliminating the practice of considering 'reputational risk' as a factor in bank regulation.'Reputational risk' may sound good in theory, but it is defined as 'the likelihood that negative publicity regarding an institution's business practices (true or not) will cause a decline in the customer base, costly litigation, or a reduction in revenue.' In practice, this vague and subjective standard has been used to justify the elimination of legitimate crypto businesses through Operation Chokepoint 2.0. Banking standards should be objective and quantifiable, not based on the possibility of untrue stories. Thanks to Senator Tim Scott for his leadership in this area through the FIRM Act."