Paul Atkins, US President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), disclosed combined employment assets of at least $327 million with his wife ahead of a scheduled confirmation hearing with the US Senate Banking Committee. Atkins and his wife, Sarah Humphreys, held up to a combined $327 million in assets, in…
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Cboe BZX Exchange, a US securities exchange, has requested permission to list a proposed Fidelity exchange-traded fund (ETF) holding Solana (SOL), according to March 25 filings. The request now sits with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which must approve the filing before trading of the Fidelity Solana Fund can commence on the exchange. This…
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Brazil’s data protection agency has upheld its decision to restrict cryptocurrency compensation tied to the World ID project, citing user privacy concerns. The National Data Protection Authority (ANDP) rejected a petition by World ID developer Tools For Humanity to review its ban on offering financial compensation to users who provide biometric data through iris scans,…
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Bitcoin (BTC) price opened the week with strength, rallying to a daily high at $88,804, which was met by praise from analysts who have identified the $90,000 to $92,000 zone as the key price level to hit in the short term. The market found strength on March 24 after US President Donald Trump suggested that…
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Opinion by: Michael Amar, co-founder of Chain of Events and general partner at v3nture Once upon a time, in 1848, a man could walk into the wilderness on the brink of poverty and emerge, caked in mud, dust and days-old sweat, a multimillionaire. The discovery of gold in California in the mid-19th century ignited a…
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Bitcoin (BTC) passed $88,000 after the March 25 Wall Street open as risk assets stayed highly sensitive to US trade tariffs. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView BTC price gains anticipate classic April comeback Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD tightly clinging to the daily open. US stocks opened modestly higher, building on…
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Since US President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Bitcoin (BTC) has swung from a record high of $109,000 to below $78,000 as major tariff announcements from the US and retaliatory moves from trade partners shaved off chunks of cryptocurrency market value and rattled global markets. “The back-and-forth on tariffs, with Trump sometimes tough and…
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US President Donald Trump’s trade war with China and efforts to ramp up on-shore Bitcoin mining will be a boon for US mining rig manufacturers, which currently only hold a small sliver of market share compared to their major Chinese counterparts. The United States accounts for over 40% of the Bitcoin network’s global hashrate but…
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Cryptocurrency-friendly trading platform eToro has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States following several previous attempts. The company said in a March 24 announcement that it had submitted a registration statement on Form F-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission related to the IPO of its Class A common shares.…
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Traditional and cryptocurrency investors are eagerly awaiting Friday’s upcoming Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) release, which may provide more relief to inflation-related concerns and bring more investor appetite to risk assets including Bitcoin. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is set to release the next PCE report on March 28, which measures the inflation in…
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