“…We will definitely be the world’s crypto capital of regulated ETF funds. But are we serious about making America the world’s crypto capital for peer-to-peer transactions and individual freedoms?” -Peter Van Valkenburgh

The developers of Samourai Wallet accepted a plea deal after Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm was found guilty of conspiracy to run a licensed money-sending business.

In an interview with Van Valkenburgh, we explained how the results of the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet case put Americans at risk the ability to use Bitcoin and crypto anonymously.

Additionally, Van Valkenburgh has nurtured whether it is sufficient to protect developers of non-craftsman cryptographic technology, which is a privacy-enhancing, whether they are pressing for laws like the Clarity Act, which borrows important languages from the Blockchain Regulations Act (BRCA).

He also pointed out how the White House report “Strengthening America’s Leadership in Digital Financial Technology” calls for the passage of the BRCA. He said this is “the best way to stop prosecutions like the tornado cash prosecutors from happening.”

Van Valkenburgh added that money submission fees should not be brought to developers of Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet at the first location, as Fincen Guidance in 2019 states clearly.

“Working with the Coinjoin server is like running a Craigslist,” explained Van Valkenburgh.

“People meet at Craigslist and do things like exchange values, but Craigslist doesn’t exchange values. They just connect people who exchange themselves,” he added.

Van Valkenburgh argued that this ability to create technologies that help software developers anonymize Bitcoin and crypto transactions without fear of prosecution is key to fulfilling President Trump’s vision of becoming “the world’s crypto capital.”

According to Van Valkenburgh, the ability to use Bitcoin and crypto mixers, as well as other types of non-radical Bitcoin and crypto technologies, is essential to the modern American right to personal freedom.

Without maintaining this freedom, he insisted that the United States is no different from its enemy.

“If financial transactions are fully monitored like China and North Korea, we won’t become America anymore,” Vanbalkenberg said.

May 21st Chart Decoder Series: RSI – Tools to View Markets

Hello, I’ll go back to the Chart Decode series, turn dry numbers into simple signals and help you act in the right place!

In the previous article, we discovered how MACD helped us chase momentum. Today, find the most popular tools for traders to complete their market trend skills. RSI – an essential companion in all transactions.

What is RSI?

RSI (Relative Strength Index) – also known as the market psychological guidelines – is a simple but extremely powerful tool. It helps you know that the market is too excited (too buy) or depressed (too sell).

Unlike metrics that run prices, RSI measures purchase/sell pressure based on recent changes. This is like having a radar that discovers crowd psychology before the market flips!

Decode RSI in the easiest way to decode:

●RSIs above 70 = Too many → The market may be trying to cool down

●Less than RSI = 30 = Too → The market may be about to wake up

● RSI between 40-60 = Cold Status → No Hot Signals!

A simple example:

RSI (purple color board): “Too many” warning

• In the chart above, the RSI of the last 14 candles exceeded the threshold 70status signal Too classic.
• This indicates that BTC’s recent price rise may have lost momentum or are preparing to enter the adjustment phase.

Traders are currently observing:

• RSI decreases Less than 70 As the first sign of inversion.
• If BTC is still in place, the RSI can remain above purchase. This is a common feature of a strong increase trend (but at higher risk for slow buyers).

The RSI becomes even stronger when combined with other indicators. Pair it with your MACD with your average dynamic line to see the signal better!

MACD: Increased dynamics remains intact

• MACD Line (Green): 4,142
• Signal Line (CAM): 3,536
• histogram: Yang, but the bar is shrinking It may be that your motivation is slower.

The MACD is still active on the comfortable green roads of Orange Street, but be aware of the histogram. If the bar starts to narrow, it may be a sign that the increased motivation is weakening.

Dynamic road movement: Is BTC too expanded?

●50-day EMA (Golden Road): 92,570

●200-day SMA (Green Road): 91,673

BTC prices trade higher than both major moving average lines, confirming a strong trend of growth.

However, this also causes problems. Is the market tight?

If the price is far from these roads, one batch Healthy adjustments In the area 50 EMA It’s completely possible.

Final conclusion: Should I act or wait immediately?

• Current trends: It has increased significantly, but can be expanded.
• RSI: Be careful in areas overlooking.
• MACD: Still positive, but it shows the first sign of slowing down.
• strategy:
  • If you have profits, this is a great opportunity to consider either making a profit or tightening your stop loss.
  • If you are waiting for the opportunity to enter a command, wait for the batch 50 Adjustment to EMA To get input with better risk/profit ratios.

Pro Tips for Using RSI as a Master

RSI is very simple, but the key is how you use it. Here are some tips from professional traders:

Understand the market context

RSI excels in a market where prices range between support and resistance.

However, with strong trends (such as price increases), RSI can maintain an area that is oversized/cell or more for weeks. So don’t rush to sell just because RSI touches 70 – look at the larger image.

● In combination with other indicators

RSI works best when you have friends. Make with:

○Check whether MACD motivation is a consensus with RSI.

○ Dynamic averages (e.g. 50 EMA) checks whether prices are pulled too much from the main support level.

Observe divergence

○If the price is new, RSI? In other words Reduces divergence – Motivation may be weaker.

○If the price is new, RSI? In other words Increased divergence – Bound depends on your future existence.

○Breaks don’t always happen immediately, but this is a clue that traders don’t seriously ignore.

●RSI is an early indicator, not an action call. Just because RSI signals via purchase/sales doesn’t mean you need to act immediately. Think of panic as an early warning, not a reason to buy and sell.

●Play in time frame to fine-tune your strategy

The RSI indicator changes depending on the time frame you are viewing.

○ If RSIs are too much to buy but indicate that an hour of RSI is cooled, this often indicates that the market is falling into short-term adjustments within a significant increase in trends.

○ Smart Trader uses this to wait for short-term RSI to reset before diving into a larger trend.

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Over the last few days, the Dogecoin price has struggled to hold up with the Bitcoin price hitting multiple resistances. This has triggered a wave of liquidations for crypto traders who have been betting on the price to go higher. The decline has also raised concerns as to whether the bullish rally that began at the start of the month is finally over.

Dogecoin Price Faces Major Resistance

Crypto analyst MindfullyLost has explained what is plaguing the Dogecoin price recently. According to the crypto analyst, the Dogecoin price has seen good support on the 4HR, which has continued to be above $0.21, even through the downtrend.

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Also, when it comes to the hourly chart, there is also support forming for Dogecoin at this level. This comes after a retest of the $0.22 level before the bulls were able to bounce. This shows weakness in this support and could fail with a more dominant move.

Presently, there is resistance mounting at $0.23 for the Dogecoin price and the bears are already bearing down on this level. As the crypto analyst shows, a break above this level would be confirmation of the uptrend for the Dogecoin price, making it a buy zone.

The next major resistance after this then lies at $0.25 and this is the moment of truth for Dogecoin. Bulls would have to completely test and clear this resistance level. Otherwise, the chances of the price falling back down toward support at $0.21 remain high.

What’s Next For DOGE?

The Dogecoin price is currently consolidating and according to the crypto analyst, this consolidation could continue for a while. This would translate to sideways price movement for the foreseeable future, as well as a continuation of the battle for dominance between the bears and bulls.

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Bulls would have to start pushing the price higher to actually try to test the first resistance level. Until then, Dogecoin could plunge further into the oversold territory, which would not be entirely bad for the price, making the rebound even stronger.

As for how high the Dogecoin price could go if it breaks major resistance levels, some crypto analysts have called for a bounce to at least its previous all-time high at $0.71. While others have speculated that $1 is a natural destination for Dogecoin, and double-digit predictions, such as reaching as high as $10, have also made it to the forefront.

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I think valid It is generally a somewhat vague term. On the one hand, nodes validate transactions using a list of criteria. If all criteria are met, the transaction is considered valid. One such criteria is:For each input, there must be an output to be referenced and is not available yet” (Anthonopoulos, Bitcoin Masterp. 235). Therefore, if all inputs in a new transaction are UTXOS, the criteria are checked.

At the same time, when discussing “51% attacks,” Antonopoulos states:The more confirmations you get, the more difficult it will be to disable transactions with 51% of attacks.This means that chain reorganization can invalidate transactions.

Therefore, from the miner’s perspective, transaction validity is a binary property. However, from a broader network perspective, it is probabilistic.

The following is a guest post from Shane Neagle, Editor In Chief from The Tokenist.

Since the introduction of altcoins, after Bitcoin paved the road for them, we have seen many projects give 10x gains in relatively short periods. It has also been accepted that the crypto space oscillates between altcoin and bitcoin seasons, suggesting more investing opportunities down the line.

A deluge of memecoins flooded the market as well, serving as a more robust gambling system (compared to online casinos). As crypto space lost $530 billion market cap over the last 30 days, it is prudent to examine its fundamentals once again.

Is such a concept as ‘altcoin season’ meaningful moving forward? Is there more to cryptos than cyclical speculation? To answer those questions, we must first remind ourselves of narratives past.

The Merge Foreshadowing

During the evolution of the crypto space, Bitcoin became de-facto the only proof-of-work digital asset worth considering, following Ethereum’s The Merge in September 2022. As a transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS), The Merge represents a cleavage in blockchain philosophies.

While Bitcoin’s proof-of-work (PoW) requires computational resources, Ethereum’s PoS eliminates such barriers in order to boost transaction speed and efficiency. In other words, Bitcoin further differentiated itself as a store of value, while Ethereum focused more on cost-effective blockchain utility.

At first glance, this may seem perfectly complementary, but there are several underlying problems that eventually reared their heads.

• PoW is more amenable to decentralization contrasted to PoS, which relies on the cumulative wealth of validators in the “rich get richer” feedback loop.
• PoS is divorced from hard assets, such as energy and machines, while Bitcoin is grounded in them.
• And because Bitcoin’s PoW is part physical, part digital, it is less reproducible than PoS as a commitment mechanism. In turn, this contributes to Bitcoin’s network effect and safeguards against devaluation in the long run.

Altogether, the PoW-PoS bifurcation translates into PoS fragmentation. If PoS-based assets, and PoS-based platforms competitive to Ethereum, are more reproducible, they can be launched with minimal upfront costs. With this foundation, there is no single altcoin asset to cling onto. Ultimately, with a low barrier of entry, this led to the fragmentation of the crypto market across +34,000 digital assets.

From the Bitcoin-Ethereum perspective, as the two largest digital assets by market cap, PoS-led fragmentation manifests as a corrosive effect on Ethereum price level.

To put it differently, Bitcoin’s key features, PoW and scarcity, are reinforcing Bitcoin fundamentals. In contrast, Ethereum suffers from network effect erosion from competing PoS chains, which offer similar functionality and incentive structure.

Moreover, the increased complexity outside of Bitcoin is creating a barrier to entry from new capital inflows. Who can spend time filtering thousands of assets and bet that they will have staying power beyond one year? Even sophisticated investors leveraging popular futures trading algorithms often struggle to navigate the fragmented market effectively.

In fact, this is precisely why memecoin mania gained traction. The complexity and fragmentation of the crypto market lends itself to thinking of digital assets outside their fundamentals. Instead, focus is then on celebrity endorsements, humor, viral marketing, which often turns into pump-and-dump schemes.

Inevitably, this creates a negative feedback loop:

1. Crowded and confused altcoin market births memecoins.
2. Rollercoasting memecoins inevitably erode trust in the altcoin market itself.
3. Legitimate innovative projects are then less likely to gain traction, as capital is misallocated.

But there is an even greater problem than that. Let’s assume that this negative feedback loop created by memecoins doesn’t exist. One has to consider if there even is a market for blockchain based solutions, as it was previously imagined.

Erosion of Underlying Fundamentals

Through anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, governments around the world have expended great efforts to subdue the crypto ecosystem. Let’s quickly remind ourselves of key promises before regulative sweeps took place:

Decentralization as elimination of intermediaries – nearly everything is now intermediated through fiat rails, including transfers from self-custodial wallets.

Financial inclusion as access for the unbanked/underbanked – it is still more convenient to use legacy banking than blockchain tech, which is inherently complex and requires digital literacy. According to the latest EMarketer report, cryptocurrency payment penetration is hitting a wall.

Although the number of crypto payment users is expected to rise by 82.1% from 2024 to 2026, this is from a tiny overall population base of only 2.6%. It may very well end up being the case that a digital dollar, a stablecoin like USDT, will subsume this effort entirely in place of a direct CBDC.

Censorship resistance as a guarantee that transactions cannot be reversed or intercepted by governments and organizations. Governments regularly pursue innovative mechanisms to cancel such efforts, from debanking to the persecution of smart contract developers.

Although Treasury sanctions against Tornado Cash were overturned in January, there is little indication that financial privacy will become a human right any time soon. In fact, indicators point in the other direction.

BREAKING: The ECB’s Digital Euro is set to launch in October. Key concerns include:

– Real-time transaction tracking
– Potential for payment blocking
– Automatic tax deductions
– Restrictions on cash withdrawals
– Programmable money with expiration dates

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— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) March 9, 2025

Altogether, this friction between blockchain-led solutions and governments leads to a contained market. And if a blockchain-based solution should be deployed, it will be under governments’ terms.

Lastly, the entire concept of Web3 is dubious as a decentralized, blockchain-based iteration of the internet. Elon Musk’s DOGE revelations in the case of USAID funding clearly point to great efforts to push narratives, control narratives, suppress and de-legitimize dissent.

A semantic, censorship-resistant Web3 is fundamentally at odds with governments’ needs to maintain authority and legitimacy as they push various agendas. To think that established information proliferation nodes such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook would be allowed to erode in favor of Web3 would be foolhardy.

Any government needs centralized nodes to maintain power. This was amply demonstrated in the case of the TikTok ban. Although this video reels app is vastly superior to YouTube shorts, a leverage was pulled to sanitize it and make it less relevant.

Again, this is another factor that contains the blockchain space to a micro-niche instead of propelling it into mainstream expansion. With this in mind, blockchain space is still worthy of engagement.

Crypto Projects with Revenue-Generating Staying Power

Bitcoin will likely remain the main focus of crypto investing, owing to its unique, PoW-based network effect. Although the recent White House Crypto Summit was less bullish than expected, it was still positive in the long run. The decision to use seized bitcoins effectively removed this sell pressure from the table.

Likewise, President Trump seems to be serious about ending the “war on crypto”. But looking at the crypto space from a purely innovative solutions perspective, which projects should retail investors consider during steep discounts?

• Sonic (S) – previously FTM, this is the top performing layer 1 blockchain network with sub-second transaction finality. This alone opens up new use cases such as high-frequency trading (HFT), micropayments, in-game economy, DEXs and IoT supply chains.

• Near Protocol (NEAR) – a layer 1 launching pad for dApps that has gained traction for use in AI initiatives.

• The Graph (GRT) – also adjacent to the AI narrative, this protocol indexes data for AI use similar to how Chainlink (LINK) is used by DEXes to power decentralized financial services.

• Hey Anon (ANON) – this early project could be the key in solving DeFi complexity (barrier to entry) by using conversational AI to manage DeFi strategies across chains.

• Render (RENDER) – former RNDR – with AI generation of assets, it is likely this solution will gain demand by monetizing GPU-based distributed rendering.

These five tokens should be considered as long play exposure during crypto market deflation. After all, it is unlikely that AI narrative will subside any time soon.

In terms of top 10 revenue-generation chains during the market slump, crypto activity is clearly on the side of low-friction payment chains (Tron) and general purpose, high-performing chains (Solana, Avalanche). Ethereum still maintains high ranking due to its large market share within the DeFi ecosystem.

In conclusion, what should crypto investors keep in mind moving forward?

Due to inherent friction with governments, digital assets are unlikely to ever penetrate mainstream to a significant extent. But within the contained ecosystem, investors should focus on long term narratives – AI, infrastructure and chain performance.

A truly decentralized Web3 should be understood as a niche play that will be countered by deep pockets of Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT) and Meta (META), as centralized node extensions of the USG. By the same token, retail investors would do well to expose themselves to their stock options as safer bets.

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