President-elect Donald Trump has expressed interest in building up a stockpile of bitcoin. What would that mean for taxpayers?
Some may have seen Powell's comments as handing the market a lump of coal for Christmas. But the Fed's new projections should not have been surprising.
President-elect Donald Trump has been promoting the idea of creating a ‘Strategic National Bitcoin Stockpile,’ but the purpose of such an institution remains unclear.
Dennis Porter is now seeing the culmination of years of hard work and his single-minded dedication to the idea that bitcoin can serve as a national strategic asset.
The price of bitcoin has tumbled about 12% from a record high reached earlier this week. After topping $108,000 for the first time on Tuesday, the world’s largest cryptocurrency dropped to a price below $93,000 in early trading on Friday. Bitcoin soon recovered some of those losses, settling around $95,000 at 9:30 a.m. ET.
The Federal Reserve cut rates by 25 basis points as expected, but Fed Chair Jerome Powell's hawkish press conference
Bitcoin and the broader crypto market tumbled on Friday as investors dumped digital assets after the Federal Reserve said it would make fewer interest rate cuts in 2025 than expected. After reaching an all-time high of $108,
Bitcoin dropped after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank would cut interest rates at a slower pace in the new year.
This would represent about 5% of the total global supply of bitcoin of around 21 million. The Treasury would fund the purchases with profits on Federal Reserve banks' deposits and gold holdings. The bitcoin reserve would subsequently be maintained for a ...
Bitcoin's drop of around 10% in the last 24 hours was dwarfed by ethereum and smaller, top ten cryptocurrencies that crashed back by between 15% and
Bitcoin soared after Trump nominated crypto backer Paul Atkins as Securities and Exchange Commission chair to take over from Biden appointee Gary Gensler, who led a crypto crackdown.