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#### [Cannabis Shops Are Using Zap’s Lightning App During Coronavirus Cash Crunch](https://www.coindesk.com/cannabis-shops-are-using-zaps-lightning-app-during-coronavirus-cash-crunch)
> "The Lightning Network startup now offers fiat-friendly bitcoin payment tools. Cannabis dispensaries in Colorado are an early proving ground."

<sub>*Read more: [www.coindesk.com](https://www.coindesk.com/cannabis-shops-are-using-zaps-lightning-app-during-coronavirus-cash-crunch)*</sub>

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## More news sources

#### [Bitcoin Beats the Dow and the S&P 500 by a Wide Margin in Q1 2020](https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2020/04/bitcoin-beats-the-dow-and-the-s-p-500-by-a-wide-margin-in-q1-2020/)
> Although the first quarter of 2020 was not the best-ever quarter for Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency still managed to beat two of the three major U.S. stock indices -- Dow Jones Industrial Average (aka &quot;the Dow&quot;) and the S&amp;P 500 -- by a...

<sub>*Read more: [www.cryptoglobe.com](https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2020/04/bitcoin-beats-the-dow-and-the-s-p-500-by-a-wide-margin-in-q1-2020/)*</sub>

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#### [Financial Bazookas Revealed – Market Strategists Believe the Fed Will Purchase Stocks Soon](https://news.bitcoin.com/financial-bazookas-revealed-market-strategists-believe-the-fed-will-purchase-stocks-soon/)
> Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies may be the only free-market assets left not manipulated by central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve. Since the covid-19 outbreak, the Fed has unleashed a massive arsenal of monetary weapons to combat the effects on the econ...

<sub>*Read more: [news.bitcoin.com](https://news.bitcoin.com/financial-bazookas-revealed-market-strategists-believe-the-fed-will-purchase-stocks-soon/)*</sub>

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#### [Can Recent Bitcoin Price Drop Delay the Halving?](https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2020/04/can-recent-bitcoin-price-drop-delay-the-halving/)
> The recent drop in the price of Bitcoin has hit miners quite hard. As their work is no longer profitable, some of them have had to stop mining BTC, which has impacted the hashrate and the average daily block time. Will it delay the next halving?

<sub>*Read more: [www.cryptoglobe.com](https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2020/04/can-recent-bitcoin-price-drop-delay-the-halving/)*</sub>

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#### [The Many Facts Pointing to Wei Dai Being Satoshi](https://news.bitcoin.com/many-facts-wei-dai-being-satoshi/)
> Satoshi Nakamoto has been an enigma for well over a decade and there&#8217;s been a number of suspects and self-styled Bitcoin inventors. One particular suspect is the computer engineer Wei Dai, the creator of the b-money system and the Crypto++ cryptogra...

<sub>*Read more: [news.bitcoin.com](https://news.bitcoin.com/many-facts-wei-dai-being-satoshi/)*</sub>

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## Other hot crypto news today
- [Not April Fool’s — Trump Hints at $9 Oil After Accidental Bitcoin Plug](https://cointelegraph.com/news/not-april-fools-trump-hints-at-9-oil-after-accidental-bitcoin-plug)
- [Bitcoin Codebase Preserved for 1,000 Years in Archive Under Arctic Ice](https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-codebase-preserved-for-1-000-years-in-archive-under-arctic-ice)
- [GitHub Is Burying Bitcoin Code Inside an Arctic Mountain to Ride Out the Next 1,000 Years](https://www.coindesk.com/github-is-burying-bitcoin-code-inside-an-arctic-mountain-to-ride-out-the-next-1000-years)
- [How to Trade Bitcoin Using Leverage and Not Worry About Liquidation](https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-to-trade-bitcoin-using-leverage-and-not-worry-about-liquidation)
- [Economist Jeffrey Tucker: ‘Can You Imagine BTC Price If It Had Scaled?’](https://cointelegraph.com/news/economist-jeffrey-tucker-can-you-imagine-btc-price-if-it-had-scaled)
- [Australian Uni Partners With Ripple on Blockchain Law Courses](https://cointelegraph.com/news/australian-uni-partners-with-ripple-on-blockchain-law-courses)
- [Proof of Stake Vs. Proof of Work: Which One Is ‘Fairer’?](https://cointelegraph.com/news/proof-of-stake-vs-proof-of-work-which-one-is-fairer)
- [Australian Startup Offers New Spin on Tokenized Gold Trading](https://cointelegraph.com/news/australian-startup-offers-new-spin-on-tokenized-gold-trading)
- [Indian Crypto Exchange BuyUCoin Gets License to Go Abroad](https://cointelegraph.com/news/indian-crypto-exchange-buyucoin-gets-license-to-go-abroad)



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