🔐 How long does it take to crack a password? Everything is decided by length and variety of characters: 8 characters consisting of letters, numbers, and symbols can be brute-forced in about 5 months, while 12 characters with the same set — already up to 10 million years.

A normal long password with numbers, letters, and symbols is practically impossible to guess by brute force, while short and simple combinations, such as qwerty123, are cracked almost instantly.

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👻 Fear and Greed Index has left the fear zone for the first time since January, rising to 47 — the market is gradually thawing.

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💳 Western Union is preparing to launch its own stablecoin USDPT on the Solana blockchain as early as May — as an alternative to SWIFT transfers.

In parallel, the company is building a digital asset network to integrate crypto wallets with its global network and will later release the USD Stable Card, strengthening its entry into crypto payments.

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🇫🇷 In France charged 88 people, including teenagers, in cases of "wrench attacks" — violent attacks for access to crypto wallets.

The investigation showed that organized groups are behind a series of 12 cases, involved in multiple attacks.

The number of such crimes is growing rapidly (67 cases in 2025 and dozens already in 2026), so authorities warn — displaying crypto assets on social media increasingly makes people targets.

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🚓 Ukrainian security forces shut down a conversion center with a turnover of up to UAH 18 billion ($430 million) — money was converted into cash and crypto through fictitious VAT to complicate tracking.

The scheme involved about 500 entities: fictitious companies, individual entrepreneurs (FOPs), and non-residents from the EU and UAE.

After 40+ searches, documents, equipment, seals, cash, and cars were seized; four participants have already been detained.

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🇷🇺 Russian Ministry of Finance proposed to update cryptocurrency taxation rules — the tax will be paid through intermediaries (brokers and managers).

At the same time, transactions with digital assets are planned to be exempt from VAT, except for the sale of software licenses.

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🗽 The SEC and CFTC want to rebuild the rules for the crypto market — together they will categorize tokens by type and simplify work for companies in the USA.

The plans include — giving projects the opportunity to legally test products under the supervision of regulators and accelerate settlements through tokenization.

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🇮🇱 In Israel approved BILS — the first regulated stablecoin pegged to the shekel and issued by a local crypto exchange.

The token was tested on Solana for two years, and its reserves will be held in separate accounts in Israel under regulatory oversight.

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⚙️ Jack Dorsey's Block company unveiled a BTC proof-of-reserves algorithm — a technology with which anyone can independently verify the firm's bitcoin holdings via an on-chain signature.

This is how Block confirms its 8,883 BTC worth over $680 million and demonstrates the approach "don't trust, verify on the blockchain".

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💸 Over $1 trillion was moved using stablecoins in April — in 2026, the monthly volume of transfers has never fallen below this mark.

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🇦🇪 UAE announced a possible withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC+ starting May 1, which will allow the country to produce oil without quotas.

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