Olivier Acuna

A breaking news reporter and generalist at Coindesk, Olivier has been a journalist since 1984. He worked for UPI, AP, the Guardian, ITV News and several other major news organizations, covering everything from sports, finance, business to global affairs, politics, elections, economy and organized crime. He dove into crypto and Web3 in 2018 and has been intensely involved in the space since. He holds a MA in Broadcast Journalism from U.K.’s Birmingham City University and a postgraduate marketing diploma from King’s College London. He holds XION and AP3X.

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Bitcoin’s quantum threat is distant, but migration clock is ticking, says Adam Back

Researchers are advancing post-quantum protections even as current hardware remains far from breaking crypto systems

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus Hong Kong in February (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

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Ceasefire lifts bitcoin, but animal spirits may not return just yet

Bitcoin clears a key technical hurdle and eyes $76,000 as a temporary ceasefire with Iran and Morgan Stanley’s landmark ETF debut restore market confidence.

Top crypto movers (CoinDesk Data)

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Six Swiss banks join forces to build a unified digital franc

The initiative brings major lenders together to trial Swiss franc stablecoin in controlled environment with real transactions

UBS, the Swiss banking giant. (Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Argentine President Milei’s call logs link him to multimillion-dollar Libra rug pull: NYT

Court records show repeated contact with a key operator before and after the token’s launch as prosecutors examine his role

Argentine President Javier Milei to the right. (Argentina Presidential Press Office)

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Trump-linked World Liberty faces scrutiny over ties to sanctioned network: The Times

A deal with an Asia-based blockchain project followed recent links to individuals later sanctioned over alleged ties to a major fraud network

Consensus 2025: Zak Folkman, Eric Trump

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Americans’ losses to crypto scams rose to over $11 billion last year, FBI reports

Fraud schemes grew more sophisticated and targeted larger sums than in 2024.

FBI Headquarters Washington, D.C. (Wikimedia Commons/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin quantum threat is real and closer than it looks, says Nobel prize winning physicist

Former Google quantum hardware leader and winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, John Martinis, warns that breaking encryption will be among the earliest uses of quantum computing

(Planet Volumes-Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Crypto Daybook 아메리카

Bitcoin has room to rally, but there's a catch

Your day-ahead look for April 6, 2026

A bulk carrier shrouded in mist awaits entry to the Strait of Hormuz

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Traders are the big winners as 24/7 stocks will finally end the after-hours price 'manipulation'

Round-the-clock markets promise freedom for investors and pressure for intermediaries who traditionally wielded immense power during off-hours

NYSE (Tobias Deml/Wikimedia Commons)