​​Shifting Blockchains, Moving Privacy, Funds & Trusts and 20 | Gimme The Coin

​​Shifting Blockchains, Moving Privacy, Funds & Trusts and 20 Crypto Jokes

This past week in crypto, Pantera CEO said that bitcoin is “ahead of” his firm’s forecast schedule to hit USD 115,000, analysts blamed misinfo for bitcoin’s correction, SushiSwap announced its expansion to Avalanche, and Charles Hoskinson claimed that “more than 100 companies” will shift from Ethereum to Cardano. Meanwhile, Bitcoin and Litecoin are moving closer to their privacy upgrades, while Bottlepay launched BTC Twitter payments. eToro reached the 20m users milestone, as it aims to go public via a merger, Bitpanda was valued at USD 1.2bn, BNY Mellon invested in Fireblocks, Morgan Stanley aims to offer three bitcoin funds to its rich clients, and Grayscale launched five new trusts, after which livepeer skyrocketed.

The newsweek wasn't over yet, nay, nay. The Thai central bank banned a fiat baht-pegged stablecoin, Ray Dalio dissed dollar debt-buying in the form of bonds, Chinese media reported of a sharp rise in bogus crypto, blockchain and digital yuan-related schemes, while Arthur Hayes agreed to surrender in the US on April 6. Meanwhile, South Korea’s taxman is on the warpath with crypto in its sights. Then we also saw attacks on personal tokens and NFTs. Speaking of which, 'NFT' surpassed 'Ethereum' on Google, Sotheby's is set to follow Christie's with an NFT collaboration with artist Pak, and we looked into who Metakovan is, the buyer of USD 69m-worth Beeple's piece. And then, Elon Musk was seeking to sell an EDM song about NFTs, Beeple composed a portrait of a naked Musk, and Justin Sun waded into the chaos. Speaking of Musk, he and Zach Kirkhorn are now Technoking of Tesla and Master of Coin.

And now – your weekly dose of crypto jokes.