On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, the Williamson Country Republican Party held its convention at the Franklin Marriott, located in the heart of Williamson County, Tennessee. At the event, “bona fide” Republicans (those who voted in the last three out of four Republican primaries) voted for the future of their party’s local leadership, with the two…
Despite including several large-market cap altcoins, US President Donald Trump’s planned crypto reserve will eventually be made up almost “entirely of Bitcoin,” says Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan. “Market participants have soured on the announcement because the proposed reserve holds more than Bitcoin,” Hougan explained in a March 5 market note. “The inclusion of small-cap…
This week, Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko told the country’s Energy Minister Alexei Kushnarenko that he wants to use their surplus of electricity to mine cryptocurrency like Bitcoin to accumulate a reserve. “Look at this mining. More and more people are turning to me. If it is profitable for us, let’s do it,” President Lukashenko said….
Roughly 25,000 people gathered in Colorado for the 2025 ETHDenver conference from Feb. 23 to March 2 — an event that included the state’s governor and representatives from many crypto companies and US lawmakers. The annual Ethereum-focused event launched in 2017 kicked off this year with its traditional BUIDLWeek, bringing developers together for technical presentations,…
Between the holidays and New Years, the IRS used the last passing days of the Biden administration to finalize its long feared Broker Rule: a regulation requiring all cryptocurrency exchanges – custodial and non-custodial, fiat to crypto and crypto to crypto – to effectively subject their users to Know-Your-Customer (KYC) measures. The rule establishes that…
XRP’s (XRP) price is trading 28% above its $1.94 lows reached on Feb. 28, up 6.5% over the last 24 hours. Traders keep rally hopes alive as the altcoin holds above a key support level. XRP/USD daily chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Elliott Wave analysis projects XRP price to $5.85 Dark Defender, a crypto market analyst, highlighted…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick revealed in an interview on Tuesday that President Donald Trump plans to announce a bitcoin strategic reserve later this week. Speaking to independent news outlet The Pavlovic Today, Lutnick stated that the President “definitely thinks there’s a bitcoin strategic reserve” and will unveil plans for it during the White House’s inaugural…
Solana saw nearly half a billion dollars in outflows last month as investors shifted to what were perceived to be safer digital assets, reflecting growing uncertainty in the cryptocurrency market. Solana (SOL) was hit by over $485 million worth of outflows over the past 30 days, with investor capital mainly flowing to Ethereum, Arbitrum and…
Bybit confirmed it was behind a proposal requesting that decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol ParaSwap return fees earned from swaps conducted by the Lazarus Group using digital assets stolen from the exchange. On March 4, a proposal was posted on ParaSwap’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) forum asking to freeze and return 44.67 Wrapped Ether (wETH), worth…
The memecoin market has erased all of the gains that followed Donald Trump’s presidential victory in November 2024, having lost more than half of its value since December. According to CoinMarketCap data, the total market capitalization of memecoins stood at $54 billion on March 5, down 56% from $124 billion on Dec. 5, 2024. The…
