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​Representation of the $Trump meme coin together with Bitcoin and crypto coins, seen in this photo illustration.
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Viewpoint: How would Trump’s crypto reserve work?

Once a crypto skeptic, President Donald Trump has become an enthusiastic supporter of the industry. His media company began investing in crypto years ago, and on the campaign trail, he pledged to reverse the Biden administration's tough regulatory approach. Trump also proposed creating a national Bitcoin stockpile, and his recent announcement of a “strategic crypto reserve” showed his continued commitment to this idea, as well as his indifference to perceptions of conflicts of interest. We asked Eurasia Group expert Babak Minovi how a “strategic crypto reserve” would work.

Hard Numbers: Wisconsin school shooting, Crypto keeps cooking, what Russia got out of A$$ad, Japan’s biggest bank makes huge apology, Brazil tracks DNA of gold
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Hard Numbers: Wisconsin school shooting, Crypto keeps cooking, what Russia got out of A$$ad, Japan’s biggest bank makes huge apology, Brazil tracks DNA of gold

​Police officers stand guard on the rooftop of Vienna's OPEC headquarters before the start of meeting of OPEC oil.
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Hard Numbers: OPEC+ ain’t eager to pump, Mexico woos Trump with drug bust, Bitcoin to the moon, Merkel’s book is a blockbuster, Quake hits the Golden State

Ukraine.- In the photos taken on January 31, 2024, Ukrainian soldiers are deployed in the middle of the conflict with Russia. Ukrainian Intelligence has stated that Russian forces "have already made use" of some missiles delivered to the country by North Korea as part of the invasion and has stressed that there is "cooperation between the two regimes" at a military and weapons.
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Hard Numbers: North Koreans killed in Russia, Ireland approaches crucial vote, Pakistan locks down over Khan, Bitcoin to the moon!

​Displaced Palestinians walk in a tent camp amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 9, 2024.
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Hard Numbers: Israel expands humanitarian zone, Bitcoin bounces, Italy’s Meloni loses in court, OECD prices remain high, A very late book return

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, who is running for reelection, greets people, on the day of the presidential and parliamentary elections in San Salvador, El Salvador, February 4, 2024.
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Crime fighter cruises to victory in El Salvador

Salvadorans voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to reelect President Nayib Bukele, the self-styled “world’s coolest dictator” – even though the constitution says he can’t serve a second term.

​Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks to Reuters during an interview in Lahore, Pakistan, in March 2023.
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Hard Numbers: Imran Khan faces new sentence, Russia gets economic upgrade, Philippines and Vietnam join hands in South China Sea, Germany makes big Bitcoin seizure

Illustration cryptocurrency bitcoin, Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, January 3, 2024.
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US regulators give a huge kiss to crypto

US federal regulators on Wednesday gave the industry a huge boost of confidence by authorizing some of the world’s largest financial firms to begin offering Exchange Traded Funds (known as ETFs) linked to Bitcoin, the most prevalent crypto currency.

Image of a $100 dollar bill with a crown and the body of a wrestler
by ian bremmer

The dollar is dead, long live the dollar

Predictions of the dollar’s demise are overblown.

The Graphic Truth: Crypto's annus horribilis
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The Graphic Truth: Crypto's annus horribilis

Crypto bros can't wait for 2022 to be over. The year kicked off with cryptocurrencies riding the wave of the global post-pandemic economic boom. But then Russia's war in Ukraine upended global markets and worsening inflation prompted central banks to start hiking rates, which slashed investors' appetite for risk. What's more, a string of scandals — mainly the collapses of the TerraUSD stable coin and the FTX crypto exchange — undermined overall trust in crypto, leading to the worst annual performance in the industry's history. We track how Bitcoin and Ethereum, which together accounts for more than half of global crypto transactions, have traded since the beginning of the year.