Pantera Capital Management, one of the leading investors in the cryptocurrency industry, expressed a "firm belief" that Bitcoin had found its bottom mark. The fund assumes that the price of $ 6,500 will be the lowest indicator of the current bear market, and also predicts that the markets are likely to reach new record highs within 12 months. About this Pantera Capital, an investment company operating exclusively in the industry of cryptocurrency and blockchain, said in a letter published on the website Medium. Pantera refers to a number of factors, explaining prediction.

The founder of the hedge fund Tetras Capital and former economist of Goldman Sachs Bank Brendan Bernstein argues that Bitcoin will help to burst the bubble of traditional finance. In a tweet on April 10, Bernstein supported the position of Bitcoin Foundation director Jon Matonis, who disagreed with the statements that Bitcoin is an economic bubble.

The world-famous ex-employee of the NSA and unmasker Edward Snowden gave an interesting and extensive interview to Peter Van Valkenburgh during the conference "The Blockstack 2018" in Berlin.

Goldman Sachs customers received a letter in which analysts of the bank warned that the price of Bitcoin could soon fall below 6000 dollars. The team of technical analysts of the bank is headed by Sheba Jafari, who is sure that the market decline began with the large sales of Bitcoins, which previously belonged to the MtGox crypto exchange. As it became known, the head of the board of trustees of the exchange Nobuaki Kobayashi organized several rounds Bitcoin sales to pay off creditors MtGox.

The Australian currency exchange exchanger Bitcoin.com.au made it possible to purchase Bitcoin and Ethereum for Fiat in more than 1200 newsstands throughout the country. "The fact that you can now buy Bitcoin and Ethereum from the same place you purchase soft drinks and stationery really speaks to how institutionalised cryptocurrency has become [...] For anyone who has hesitated about buying Bitcoin because it all seemed too complicated, this is the perfect setup that takes the fear factor out of investing in digital currencies", said Bitcoin.com.au CEO Rupert Hackett.

According to the Google Trends portal, the number of search queries "Bitcoin" and "Ethereum" in Google has recently decreased significantly - by 75% (from 100 points to 25). The number of requests for Bitcoin, in particular, began to decline from December, and now are at the same level as in October-November. A similar story with the Ethereum. While he managed to restore a high level of interest in January, after falling in December, it fell to about 25 points and stopped at the same level as in November.

The American company Tesla, the manufacturer of electric vehicles and power storage solutions, became a victim of hackers: having found a vulnerability in the Tesla account on Amazon, scammers got access to the cloud infrastructure of the company and used its resources for the cryptocurrency mining. The hackers found the company specializing in cyber security company RedLock. Hackers took advantage of a vulnerability in the Kubernetes service available from the Internet due to lack of password protection, which contained information for accessing the Tesla cloud store in the Amazon Web Service.

South Korea, it seems, is softening its position regarding the trade in cryptocurrencies. According to Yonhap News, Choe Heung-sik, head of the Financial Supervision Service, said that the government "will support crypto-trade in the performance of normal transactions." Cho also said at a meeting with representatives of crypto-exchanges that the government would "encourage" banks to work with stock exchanges.

New price records Bitcoin will show in July 2018, says the well-known financial expert and ex-analyst of financial holding company JPMorgan Chase, Tom Lee. 

The Coinbase platform has launched the Coinbase Commerce service, which aims to help online shops accept payments in the four leading cryptocurrencies. As noted in the company, Coinbase Commerce ensures the receipt of payments in cryptocurrencies, controlling, verifying and confirming the transactions of customers in each unit.