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Widespread adoption of cryptocurrency would enable businesses to make significant savings on acquisition fees, reach a global customer base and process payments instantly. However, slow fiat transfers within the banking system remain a problem.

Moving a business into the crypto industry can fragment a company’s working capital. The inability to abandon fiat currency and the need to use intermediaries — crypto gateways — means funds are distributed across three channels:

• bank account

• crypto gateway wallet

• hot and cold wallets.

Consequently, companies are forced to maintain excess reserves in each account and wallet, resulting in capital being tied up.

According to Cryptomus, this problem can be partially solved by issuing crypto cards that enable the direct spending of cryptocurrency with instant conversion to fiat.

Fireblocks offers clients automatic rebalancing: as soon as the cryptocurrency accumulated in the crypto gateway wallet exceeds a set threshold, it is automatically transferred to a cold wallet.

BitPay offers a solution that combines bank account and crypto wallet management in a single dashboard. This allows for the instant conversion of cryptocurrency to fiat currency to replenish a bank account on a 'just-in-time' basis.

Bitcoin is coiling up for a big move. The Bollinger Bands on the daily chart are tightening.

Where Bitcoin heads next depends on the US—or, to be precise, on Donald Trump. The attack on Iran has humiliated America. The country burned through $50 billion, but instead of regime change, the ayatollahs have pushed the global economy to the edge of an energy abyss. If Trump and his war secretary are to be believed, there are just 24 hours left for a decisive strike on Iran—taking out power plants and the rest of the country's critical infrastructure. That move would lead to a final break with Europe and the collapse of NATO. Iran would retaliate in kind, destroying the infrastructure of America's Middle East allies.

Bloomberg analysts think Bitcoin will head down to $10,000. Broker Bernstein, on the other hand, says $150K.

My take? Iran will keep fighting, even from the ruins of its country. And it will be able to resist the ground invasion that follows the strikes. That would humiliate America even further and pave the way for a Democratic victory. They'll tighten crypto regulation and slap taxes on miners.

But even without that, mining Bitcoin will get more expensive as electricity prices rise. Competition for every kilowatt will intensify because of the growing demands of the AI industry. Especially since data centers in the Middle East will be destroyed. Miners are already shifting to servicing AI. They get paid well for that, while mining Bitcoin is now a loss‑making business. Once the hash rate starts dropping, the price will follow.

America's humiliation will cost $10,000 per Bitcoin.

Ethereum Transaction Failures Hit Historic Records

On 22 March, the Ethereum blockchain failed to process 707,267 transactions. This is the highest number of failed transactions since 2016.

According to CryptoQuant statistics, the network has experienced three significant spikes in activity since November — in December, February and now. There has been a steady increase in failed transactions over the past few months.

The issue of transaction failures can be described as alarming; at the most recent peak, 35% of all financial transactions failed. Interestingly, activity on the Ethereum network decreased on that day, so congestion cannot be considered the cause.

While Ethereum developers (Core Devs) have not issued any official statements, the situation is being actively discussed during working meetings (All Core Devs Calls). The problem lies in the smart contract code and cannot be resolved due to the lack of a mandatory audit.

Cryptomus analysts have identified another issue. The influx of new users leads to errors in fee calculations, and newcomers may also fail to account for network requirements.

Blocknative analysts have observed an increase in errors on the Layer 2 side and from MEV bots. A significant proportion of failed transactions are generated by bots attempting to execute arbitrage trades. If the terms of a transaction change before it is included in a block, the transaction is marked as 'failed'.