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VP Vance joins Bitcoin 2025 stage; BTC bulls eye $160K


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VP Vance to Speak at Bitcoin 2025, Bitcoin Eyes 'Crazy' $160K, & more

May 4 - 10

#1

US VP Vance to speak at Bitcoin conference amid Trump crypto controversies

US Vice President JD Vance will speak at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, roughly a year after then-presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke at the same event.

According to a May 9 notice from the event's organizers, Vance will address conference attendees in person on May 28, making him the first sitting US vice president to speak at a digital asset conference.

Trump provided a pre-recorded video of himself from the White House to the organizers of the Digital Asset Summit in March — his first appearance at a crypto event since taking office in January — and spoke in person at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville while campaigning.

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#2

North Korean spy slips up, reveals ties in fake job interview

For months, Cointelegraph took part in an investigation centered around a suspected North Korean operative that uncovered a cluster of threat actors attempting to score freelancing gigs in the cryptocurrency industry.

The investigation was led by Heiner Garcia, a cyber threat intelligence expert at Telefónica and a blockchain security researcher. Garcia uncovered how North Korean operatives secured freelance work online even without using a VPN.

Garcia's analysis linked the applicant to a network of GitHub accounts and fake Japanese identities believed to be associated with North Korean operations. In February, Garcia invited Cointelegraph to take part in a dummy job interview he had set up with a suspected Democratic People's Republic of Korea operative who called himself "Motoki."

#3

Former FTX exec's wife says gov't 'induced a guilty plea'

Michelle Bond, the wife of former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame, who faces federal campaign finance charges, is pushing for dismissal on the grounds that US prosecutors deceived her husband in a plea deal.

In a May 7 filing in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Bond's lawyers reiterated some of the claims Salame made in opposing his plea deal with the government, which ultimately still led to him serving time in prison. She claimed that prosecutors obtained a deal with Salame through "stealth and deception" by allegedly agreeing they would not file charges against Bond.

"Mr. Salame and Ms. Bond's attorneys were advised that the agreement to cease investigating Ms. Bond could not be placed within the four corners of the Salame plea or other written agreement, but the government still offered it as an inducement to induce the plea," said the filing.

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Prediction of the Week

Is Bitcoin about to go parabolic? BTC price targets include $160K next

Bitcoin is attracting "parabolic" price targets as bulls continue to hold six figures on May 9. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows barely any consolidation taking place on BTC/USD over the past 24 hours.

Reacting, market participants have begun to restore their faith in the broader Bitcoin bull market.

"November 2024 monthly candle was the breakout signal on long-term charts," popular economist Aksel Kibar told X followers in his latest post.

An accompanying chart compares November 2024 to similar "breakout" events in the past, with Kibar reiterating his existing $137,000 target.

Trader and analyst Matthew Hyland joined those forecasting new all-time highs in Q2 in his latest video update.

$160,000 or other "crazy numbers," he said, could come into play if bulls stay in control and a key leading indicator, the relative strength index, supports further upside.

FUD of the week

60K Bitcoin addresses leaked as LockBit ransomware gang gets hacked

Almost 60,000 Bitcoin addresses tied to LockBit's ransomware infrastructure were leaked after hackers breached the group's dark web affiliate panel.

The leak included a MySQL database dump shared publicly online. It contained crypto-related information that could help blockchain analysts trace the group's illicit financial flows.

Ransomware is a type of malware used by malicious actors. It locks its target's files or computer systems, making them inaccessible. The attackers typically demand a ransom payment, often in digital assets like Bitcoin, in exchange for a decryption key to unlock the files.