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Bitcoin Price Crosses $109K to Hit ATH as Trump Prepares to Take Office
(Crypto News)-22/01/2025Bitcoin (BTC) has surged past $109,000 as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to begin his second term in the White House.The cryptocurrency briefly hit an all-time high (ATH) of $109,111 on Jan. 20, according to data from CoinMarketCap, before quickly retreating below $108,000.At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $108,342, marking a 3% increase […]
Billionaire Mark Cuban Teases Meme Coin Modeled After Trump’s New Token
(Crypto News)-22/01/2025Billionaire Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks, said Friday that he is considering issuing a meme coin, mirroring the structure of President Donald Trump’s recent crypto project $TRUMP.The meme project will use terms similar to the $TRUMP coin, which has a 20% float. At launch, only 20% of the total supply, or 1 […]
Trump’s ‘Day One’ Lacks Crypto Executive Order Promise, Circle CEO Remains Bullish
(Crypto News)-22/01/2025Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States, did not mention crypto during his Monday inaugural speech.Adding to the disappointment, a GOP congressional ‘immediate priority’ report omitted any mention of crypto or Bitcoin. Instead, the priorities included topics such as energy independence and immigration, leaving the community to speculate about crypto-related announcements.Trump had […]
Donald Trump Family Meme Coins Plummet During Inauguration: $Melania Drops to $790M, $Trump Sees Market Cap Halved
(Crypto News)-22/01/2025The inauguration of Donald Trump as the U.S. president marked a turbulent day for the Trump family’s meme coins, $TRUMP and $MELANIA.Both tokens experienced dramatic declines in market value during the high-profile event.According to Coingecko, Melania Trump’s token, $MELANIA, saw its market capitalization plummet from $2 billion to $790 million, while Donald Trump’s $TRUMP token halved […]
Trump Frenzy Triggers Inflows of $2.2B into Digital Asset Products: CoinShares
(Crypto News)-22/01/2025Triggered by the Trump inauguration euphoria, digital asset products saw record inflows of $2.2 billion last week, according to the latest CoinShares report, marking the largest weekly inflows of 2025 so far and pushing year-to-date (YTD) inflows to $2.7 billion.The spike in activity has pushed total assets under management (AuM) to an all-time high of […]
Dubai VARA Grants HashKey In-Principle Approval for VASP Application
(Crypto News)-15/01/2025HashKey Group announced Monday that its Middle East and North Africa arm has received an in-principle license approval from Dubai.The Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) gave the greenlight for HashKey MENA’s Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license application. The final regulatory approval allows the exchange to offer crypto services including broker-dealer, the press release noted.Further, […]
Italy’s Largest Banking Group Invests Directly in Cryptos for First Time
(Crypto News)-15/01/2025Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest bank by assets, purchased 11 Bitcoins on Monday, worth €1 million ($1.02 million).According to a Wired Italia report, this marks the first time in Italy, a credit institution concluded a direct crypto transaction.Some employees of the largest Italian bank first flagged the crypto purchase and sale on the imageboard website 4Chan.“As […]
Three Russian Nationals Indicted for Operating Crypto Mixers by Georgia Federal Grand Jury
(Crypto News)-15/01/2025A federal grand jury in Georgia has indicted three Russian nationals for operating cryptocurrency mixing services Blender.io and Sinbad.io, accusing them of money laundering.Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko and Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik, who were arrested last month, face charges of laundering criminal proceeds, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday.A third individual, Anton Vyachlavovich Tarasov, […]
Crypto Mining Hardware Sales ‘Triple’ in Russia as Moscow Teases ‘Light Touch’ Regulation
(Crypto News)-15/01/2025Crypto mining hardware sales have tripled in Russia year-on-year, one of the nation’s top Bitcoin mining experts has claimed.Speaking to the Russian news outlet Prime, Sergey Bezdelov, the head of the Industrial Mining Association said that “in the fourth quarter of 2024,” the demand for industrial mining equipment and services in Russia “increased threefold compared to the […]
Trump Expected to Sign Executive Orders on Crypto De-Banking Policies on Day One
(Crypto News)-15/01/2025As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House on January 20, his first day in office could be marked by executive actions that may significantly impact the cryptocurrency industry.According to a report by The Washington Post on Jan. 13, Trump is expected to prioritize executive orders addressing crypto de-banking and revising a […]
Arthur Hayes Predicts Crypto Market Will Peak in March, Massive Correction to Follow
(Crypto News)-10/01/2025Former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, believes that the crypto market will reach its peak in mid-March 2025, before experiencing a severe correction.“I think crypto tops out in mid-Mar and then severely corrects. Until then is time to dance,” he wrote on X, on Tuesday.Hayes explained that the Federal Reserve’s quantitative tightening […]
U.S. Government Seeks Public Notice Procedure for Over 1M Victims in Do Kwon Fraud Case
(Crypto News)-10/01/2025U.S. prosecutors have estimated that Do Kwon, co-founder of Terraform Labs, could have defrauded over 1M victims globally following the catastrophic collapse of the Terra ecosystem.This assertion emerged during a court session in New York City on January 6, 2025, where Kwon faces nine felony counts tied to his role in Terraform Labs’ activities.The government, […]
Is AI Ambition Driving Russia’s Crypto Mining Pivot?
(Crypto News)-10/01/2025The Kremlin’s crypto mining drive may be motivated by its desire to turn Russia into a global AI powerhouse, experts have suggested.Per the St. Petersburg-based news outlet Delovoi Peterburg, the tech and blockchain blogger Ani Aslanyan and others spoke in the wake of Moscow’s recent decision to ban mining in multiple regions until March 15, 2031.Russia Crypto Mining […]
Nasdaq ISE Seeks SEC Approval to Raise Options Limits for IBIT to 250,000 Contracts
(Crypto News)-10/01/2025Nasdaq ISE, the options exchange owned by Nasdaq, has filed a proposal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to significantly raise the position and exercise limits for options on the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT).The proposed amendment seeks to increase these limits from 25,000 to 250,000 contracts, reflecting the ETF’s growing trading volume and […]
Bitcoin Tops $100,000 Again as Momentum Builds Ahead of Trump’s Election Ratification
(Crypto News)-10/01/2025Bitcoin climbed back above $100,000 late Monday, marking its first rise to that level in two weeks. This rebound followed Congress’ official certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, clearing the path for his Jan. 20 inauguration.Congress officially certified the election results for all 50 states and the District of Columbia during a formal ceremony […]
The Biggest Upgrade in IOTA’s History Coming in 2025
(Crypto News)-02/01/2025IOTA (IOTA) has been sluggish in the recent broad market bear run, declining by 10% in the last seven days and 4% in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, crypto researcher SMQKE believes that the IOTA team has been quietly building with a focus on smart contracts, prototype launching, and testing critical advancements.According to him, the team has been […]