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In today’s crypto for advisors, Zac Townsend from bitcoin life insurance company Meanwhile explains estate planning options for managing bitcoin inheritance. Then, Peter Dunworth from The Bitcoin Adviser answers questions about these strategies from an advisor’s point of view in Ask an Expert. – Sarah Morton You’re reading Crypto for Advisors, CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter that unpacks digital assets for financial advisors. Subscribe here to get it every Thursday. At its recent all-time high, the bitcoin market cap hit $2.1 trillion, indicating that significant wealth has been created for holders of the original cryptocurrency. With the regulatory tailwinds behind digital assets…

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US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while in flight on Air Force One, en route to Joint Base Andrews on April 6, 2025. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration recently announced that it would begin a process of overhauling the country’s $1.6 trillion federal student loan system.The potential changes could impact how millions of borrowers repay their debt, and who qualifies for loan forgiveness.”Not only will this rulemaking serve as an opportunity to identify and cut unnecessary red tape, but it will allow key stakeholders to offer suggestions to streamline and improve federal student aid programs,” said…

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By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – New York Attorney General Letitia James urged lawmakers on Thursday to pass legislation to create a federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies, arguing that digital asset investors urgently need stronger protections. In a letter to top congressional leadership, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, James said that lawmakers should require crypto companies to register with a federal regulatory agency and set minimum listing standards for crypto tokens. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT James’ letter comes as Congress appears likely to pass a bill creating stablecoin rules for the first time. Stablecoins, a…

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Noor Zaman stormed to victory on Thursday in front of a full-house crowd as he beat Egypt’s Karim El Torkey 3-2 in the men’s final of the U23 World Squash Championship in Karachi. Noor Zaman celebrating after winning the U23 World Squash Championship in Karachi on Thursday. — Photo by author Zaman defeated Malaysia’s Ameeshenraj Chandran yesterday to reach the final after Chandran retired during the third game of the last-four while trailing 6-11, 2-11, 4-6. Torkey, who defeated seed Ibrahim Elkabbani, was up by two games in the final with Zaman looking for reprieve, narrowly took the game from…

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David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInflation throttled back in March, largely on the back of lower gasoline prices — but tariffs threaten to reverse that downward trend in coming months while trouble also lurks in certain categories like groceries, economists said.The consumer price index rose 2.4% for the 12 months ended in March, down from 2.8% in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday, indicating that inflation decelerated.Additionally, “core” CPI — a measure that strips out food and energy prices, which can be volatile — fell from 3.1% to 2.8%, the lowest level since March 2021. Economists prefer to…

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Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Magic Eden has acquired Slingshot, a trading app that allows users to see their crypto balance across multiple protocols. Slingshot allows users to trade tokens from a single universal USDC balance, removing hurdles like wallet setup, bridging assets across chains, and juggling gas fees, thus expanding Magic Eden well past Solana to every chain, including bitcoin. “This acquisition is a major step forward in advancing the Magic Eden vision, which is to provide users worldwide with a seamless and safe way to buy and sell crypto and digital assets across all chains,” Jack Lu, CEO and…

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U.S.-listed spot bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw outflows Wednesday even as the cryptocurrencies’ prices surged after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause in tariffs on most countries, excluding China. The 11 bitcoin ETFs lost a net $127.2 million Wednesday, with investors withdrawing $89.7 million from BlackRock’s IBIT alone, according to data from Farside Investors. Wednesday marked the fifth consecutive day of outflows, with the funds losing a cumulative $722 million over the period. Ether ETFs have also fallen out of investor favor and the nine funds saw a net outflow of $11.2 million Wednesday. The…

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CNN  —  Inflation slowed sharply in March, new data showed Thursday, underscoring the continued strength and resilience of the economy ahead of President Trump’s aggressive trade moves. In any other timeline, such news would stoke optimism that Americans’ cost of living is no longer surging. However, the latest reading of the Consumer Price Index — which showed inflation cooling to an annual rate of 2.4% in March — lands as countries, businesses, markets and consumers grapple with America’s most severe escalation of its tariff rate in more than a century. Economists have cautioned that Thursday’s CPI report could very well…

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Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoin spot trading volumes have declined as crypto prices entered into correction mode in the last two months, with crypto exchange Binance emerging as the preferred avenue for traders, according to a report from CryptoQuant. Total bitcoin spot trading volume on crypto exchanges declined from a high of $44 billion on February 3 to $10 billion at the end of Q1, a nearly 77% drop, according to the analytics firm. Meanwhile, total altcoin spot trading volume on crypto exchanges declined from a high of $122 billion on February 3 to $23 billion at the end of Q1…

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Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) soared to an all-time high of $106,182 per coin in January. With the fourth Bitcoin halving firmly in the rearview mirror and a more crypto-friendly regime in the White House, the original cryptocurrency looked ready to skyrocket like it did in 2020 and 2017. But it hasn’t worked out that way. Bitcoin is down to $79,200 as of this writing on April 8. That’s a hair-raising 25% price crash, well ahead of the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) stock market tracker’s 19% drop. Is this the start of a three-year crypto winter like the one you saw after…

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