Bitcoin has fallen to its lowest level in three weeks as US President Donald Trump released an executive order imposing trade tariffs on a raft of countries. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to $114,250 on Coinbase during early trading in Asia on Friday, according to TradingView. It hasn’t been that low since June 11. The original cryptocurrency…
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US President Donald Trump’s crypto liaison has confirmed that the administration is still keen on a strategic Bitcoin reserve, despite it not being mentioned in a recently published crypto policy report. “We do believe in accumulation,” said Robert “Bo” Hines, the executive director of the US President’s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, said in…
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Investors revised down expectations for a rate cut in September after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s non-committal responses to one during a press conference on Wednesday. One crypto analyst suggests it could lead to a slower-paced crypto bull run. The United States central bank decided to maintain interest rates at 4.25% to 4.5%, based on…
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Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings beat analyst expectations in its second-quarter earnings, which saw its share price slightly gain after-hours. MARA Holdings’ revenues increased 64% year-on-year to $238 million, up from $145 million in Q2 2024 and also gaining from its $214 million revenues in the first quarter of 2025, the company said on Tuesday. The…
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Bitcoin’s layer-2 scaling platform, Lightning Network, could see a surge in stablecoin volume over the next couple of years, driven by increased retail and institutional adoption, according to industry experts. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Graham Krizek, founder and CEO of Lightning Network payments provider Voltage, said increased adoption of the layer-2 network will see it handle…
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Exchange-traded fund issuer 21Shares has filed with US regulators for a product tracking the spot price of Ondo, the native token of the decentralized finance protocol Ondo Finance. 21Shares submitted a preliminary prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the “21Shares Ondo Trust” on Tuesday, which aims to directly hold Ondo (ONDO) tokens and…
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Andrew Keys, the co-founder of the new Ethereum investment firm The Ether Machine, argues investors would have made much more money investing in Ether than Bitcoin a decade ago. “The price of Ether per Bitcoin over the past decade has materially improved. Over the last decade, since Ethereum started, you would be 50x wealthier [had…
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Robert Kiyosaki took a contrarian view to most crypto analysts on Monday, with a bearish prediction that the Bitcoin “bubble” could soon burst, along with gold and silver. “Bubbles are about to start busting,” the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” author said on Monday, adding that when these bubbles bust, “odds are gold, silver, and Bitcoin…
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Total crypto market capitalization is within striking distance of the $4 trillion milestone, driven by a daily surge in Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and other cryptocurrencies as three major crypto bills were passed in the US House. A $4 trillion market cap would place cryptocurrencies just behind Nvidia, the biggest publicly-listed company in the world, which…
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Publicly traded Bitcoin solutions firm Matador Technologies says it is planning to buy up to 6,000 Bitcoin by 2027, in a significant acceleration of its Bitcoin buying strategy. The Canadian blockchain and Bitcoin technology firm announced on Wednesday that it has an interim objective of buying 1,000 Bitcoin (BTC) on or before 2026 and plans…
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