Just personal thoughts for record-keeping. Not financial advice.

According to the Vietnam Youth Daily, the Investigation and Security Bureau (A09) of the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security seized over 350 kilograms of gold and silver, froze 8 real estate transactions and more than 300 bank accounts, and involved a total amount of 200 billion Vietnamese dong in the suspected embezzlement case at the ONUS cryptocurrency exchange. The police have filed criminal charges against 8 defendants on March 23, accusing them of using computer networks to commit property embezzlement and money laundering. The individuals involved in the case have sold over 7 trillion Vietnamese dong worth of cryptocurrency between 2018 and 2021, and have opened approximately 5 million user accounts. The police have received over 2000 reports and are investigating whether social media influencers are involved in the promotion.

Michael Saylor stated on the X platform that strong consensus is the immune system of Bitcoin, with transaction fees pricing the block space, nodes setting policies, miners building blocks, holders allocating capital, and protocol changes requiring overwhelming consensus. Bad ideas will fail before becoming interventionist bad protocol changes.

According to a financial column in an Australian newspaper, Anthropic plans to invest $15 billion in Australia to acquire 1.4 million kilowatts of data center computing power resources. Anthropic plans to use at least 1 million kilowatts of computing power by the end of next year at the latest, and seeks long-term partners to jointly build a data center park. Anthropic is about six weeks away from making a final investment decision, and the project may be split into four to five small cooperation contracts to be implemented.

The United States is about to release the final text of the Bitcoin and Crypto Clarity Act, aimed at ensuring the country's leading position in the next generation of financial services and supporting its global development. （The Bitcoin Historian）

[Reduced Vessel Traffic in the Oman Coastal Waterway of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran Strengthens Waterway Control] According to institutional reports, the number of vessels navigating the Oman coastal waterway of the Strait of Hormuz saw a significant decrease on Sunday. During Friday and Saturday, at least 8 vessels abruptly changed course while crossing the Strait of Hormuz along the Oman waterway, with 4 of them redirecting northward to exit via the Iranian side of the waterway. According to Kpler data, a total of 19 vessels traversed the Strait of Hormuz in both directions on Saturday, with only 1 vessel publicly indicating its intention to enter via the Oman coastal waterway. On Friday, the number of vessels using this waterway was 13.