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Bitcoin added over 5% during the day on Monday, rising to $72.8K at its peak, about 1k below its all-time high. The ease of gains was another reminder that this is a bull market for cryptocurrencies. The corrective pullback from the March highs gave bitcoin a needed respite, allowing for further upward movement.

Ethereum scaling startup Optimism announced that it had identified and patched a critical bug earlier this month which was discovered and fixed by an iOS jailbreak software Cydia developer and white-hat hacker Jay Freeman for which he was awarded a sum upwards of $2 million (roughly Rs. 15 crore).