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On July 27, the world’s biggest Bitcoin conference of the year kicked off at the Music City Center in Nashville. Thousands of attendees lined up, enduring multi-hour waits to get through Secret Service security and into the highly secured main floor. The anticipation was deep as former President Donald Trump was set to speak about what a second term might mean for Bitcoin. The giant of the crypto world, Bitcoin, is also known as “Digital Gold” due to its high value. Attendees, sporting “Make...

The Trump Sneakers website, an online store he declared fully owned in his 2023 financial disclosure, listed Bitcoin-themed high-top and low-top shoes right after he concluded his speech at BTC 2024. These sneakers cost as much as $499. Resellers have already flooded secondary markets like eBay with it, listing it for as much as five times the original price. Some were seen with an asking price of $2,500. If people are shelling out that amount is yet to be known. Nevertheless, the most...

Independent US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr spoke at the BTC 2024 conference, showing his support for the largest cryptocurrency. This ties into the crypto narrative taking center stage in the build-up to this year’s presidential election. “I am a huge supporter of Bitcoin. I have most of my wealth in Bitcoin. I am fully committed,” said RFK Jr in his speech. Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for this year’s election, has also shown tremendous support for the asset. He is...

The recent exit of President Joe Biden from the 2024 presidential race has sparked a significant rise in the value of a meme coin dedicated to Vice President Kamala Harris. The coin, known as KAMA, soared to an all-time high of $0.025 shortly after Biden’s announcement. Currently, KAMA is trading at $0.01741, with a market cap of $24 million. This increase has made KAMA nearly four times larger than BODEN, the meme coin initially inspired by Biden. On the other hand, BODEN has dropped nearly...

Data supplied by Coinglass, a globally renowned platform for crypto data analysis, has shown that the crypto liquidity surged by 150% since President Biden announced that he’s stepping down in the presidential race. Vice President Kamala Harris was chosen as the replacement, but that didn’t change anything as the crypto market experienced a small downward momentum. Statistics Show That Bitcoin Leads the Chart According to Coinglass, Bitcoin sat atop the charts with $49.5 million in...

US President Joe Biden has stepped down from the 2024 presidential race. Biden has endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, to step in and go head-to-head with the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Although Biden did not mention the reasons behind his decision, he stated in a release, “While it is my intention to seek re-election, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for...

The FTX saga continues, and this time, Sam Bankman-Fried’s family is involved in committing crimes related to illegal political financing in the US. A WSJ exposé revealed that SBF’s entire family was in on misappropriating FTX customer funds, and their misdeeds are well-documented through email chains the family members were involved in. Those funds witnessed alleged use in influencing the 2022 elections. The legal implications can affect SBF’s father, Joe Bankman, his mother, Barbara Fried,...

Sam Bankman-Fried – crypto billionaire and head executive of FTX, one of the largest (and newest) digital currency platforms in the world – is spending millions of dollars on this year’s midterm elections. He has stated in recent interviews that he expects to spend more than $100 million, though people shouldn’t be surprised if he spends up to a billion. Sam Bankman-Fried: How Much Will He Spend? At the time of writing, Bankman-Fried has a net worth estimated to exceed...

Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is the latest politician to enter the bitcoin space. Not long ago, Cruz bought the dip that bitcoin was experiencing and purchased roughly $50,000 worth of the world’s most popular digital currency. Ted Cruz Has Jumped on the BTC Train Cruz has long been a serious bitcoin advocate, and thus traders should consider him a friend and ally against Biden’s disastrous digital currency tactics and would-be regulations. Cruz was one of...

If anyone is interested in starting their own major crypto company somewhere, they should probably look at how Coinbase operates. The exchange is one of the largest trading platforms in the United States, and while that’s certainly important, the company appears to have its head on straight when it comes to all the distractions of the outside world.Brian Armstrong States How Coinbase Will Move in the FutureIn a blog post published on Sunday by CEO Brian Armstrong, Coinbase mentioned that it...