Author name: Monica Bass

In brief Donald Trump has been inaugurated as the 47th U.S. President after running on a pro-crypto platform. But Trump hasn’t always taken this stance: He used to call Bitcoin a “scam” and said he wasn’t a fan. Trump has since launched his own Solana meme coin, multiple NFT collections, and a DeFi platform. Bitcoin-friendly […]

Gold Maxi Created $300M Meme Coin By Accident Ron made a YouTube video in an attempt to prove that cryptocurrency is worthless, after seeing Fartcoin shoot over a $1 billion market cap. Once the video was published, crypto degens caught wind of the story and sent Unicorn Fart Dust (UFD) to over $260 million—now $300

Donald Trump has ventured further into the crypto world with the launch of Official Trump (TRUMP), a Solana-based meme coin. Announced just days before his second-term inauguration, the TRUMP token blends meme culture, politics, and blockchain into one eye-catching package. Despite initial skepticism of the token, confirmations from the President’s camp in the hours following

El Salvador just added 11 Bitcoin to its reserves shortly after promising to limit its adoption. El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office announced in a Jan. 20 Twitter post that it just added another 11 BTC to its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. As of press time, 11 BTC are worth more than $1 million. The announcement follows El

World Liberty Financial (WLF), a decentralized finance venture associated with President-elect Donald Trump, has purchased and registered four new Ethereum domain names linked to the Trump family through the Ethereum Name Service. Purchases made by WLF came to Decrypt’s attention as they surfaced from The Kobeissi Letter’s social media account late Sunday evening, with the

Indian national Anurag Pramod Murarka has been sentenced to 121 months in prison in the U.S. for operating a global money laundering operation that funneled over $20 million in criminal proceeds. U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove delivered the sentence last Wednesday after Murarka was convicted of facilitating the laundering of criminal proceeds through a

The price of price of Bitcoin has hit yet another all-time high of just under $109,000, amid widespread optimism in the crypto industry as Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. President draws near. Bitcoin has retreated slightly from its new all-time high of $108,786, per CoinGecko, and now sits at $107,949, up 3.2% in the past