Bitcoin dropped sharply early Friday following Israel’s overnight strikes on Iran, weakening its recent position as a perceived safe-haven asset. The leading digital asset fell over 5 percent, from a local high of $108,000 on Thursday to approximately $103,000, as market participants reacted to escalating conflict in the Middle East. Oil markets surged in response […]
While Solana is up just 5% over the past year, global sentiment around the altcoin is bullish due to its potential technical capabilities to outperform its main rivals in performance. Solana’s Firedancer validator client, expected to leave testnet in 2025, is demonstrating transaction-per-second capabilities exceeding one million in test environments, a development aimed at solving
A growing divide is emerging among US states over how to approach digital assets, with some jurisdictions warming up to Bitcoin and blockchain innovation, while others are slamming the brakes. This has become particularly evident in how Connecticut and Louisiana offer contrasting responses to the evolving crypto economy through recent legislative efforts. No Bitcoin reserve
Kim Nam-guk, the South Korean lawmaker at the center of the nation’s “Coin Gate” scandal, is set to join the government of the newly elected South Korean President Lee Jae-myung. Lee won the election with a comfortable margin earlier this month. He has since begun assembling his cabinet after making a series of pro-business crypto
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A new House bill introduced Friday would lock in President Trump’s unprecedented executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, signaling the GOP’s deepening embrace of digital assets as fiscal and geopolitical leverage tools. The bill, H.R. 3798, sponsored by Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), aims to codify Executive Order 14233, signed by Trump. Bitcoin reserve law
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Argentina’s Anti-Corruption Office has determined that President Javier Milei did not violate any ethics laws when he promoted the Solana-based LIBRA memecoin in February. In a resolution issued on Friday, the office declared that Milei’s Feb. 14 X post constituted a personal statement rather than an official announcement as a public servant. Therefore, Milei’s post
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s fallout caused a major spikes in memecoin launches and trading, with the largest tokens by trading activity generating over $355 million in volume over the past 24 hours, according to DEX Screener data. As traders seized on the pair’s high-profile social media clash using Solana’s ecosystem, Official Trump (TRUMP)
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Trump Media & Technology Group has filed a Form S-3 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, registering 85 million securities related to its previously closed $2.44 billion Bitcoin treasury deal. The filing also includes a universal shelf registration, granting the company flexibility to issue additional securities in the future as part of a broader
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Bitcoin briefly dipped to $100,000 before swiftly rebounding to $103,000 in early trading hours Friday, as markets reacted to an explosive social media fallout between U.S. President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The confrontation, unfolding in real time across Truth Social and X, was marked by Trump’s threat to revoke federal contracts and
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin vs Stablecoins: Bitcoin is an Unreplicable Lifeline in Authoritarian Regimes Eight years ago, I wrote a book about pitching technology. The core lesson was simple: To convince skeptics, you must show your solution’s value isn’t just better — it’s uniquely better. Years later, as I began advocating for Bitcoin’s role in humanitarian
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