"God candle," Samson Mow, a bitcoin developer who leads the Jan3 bitcoin wallet company, posted to X as the bitcoin price suddenly soared, hitting $109,400 on the Coinbase bitcoin and crypto exchange.

Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s oldest and most valuable crypto, has rallied over the weekend as Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony to assume the US President’s office approaches. The TRUMP coin, as well as wife Melania Trump’s own official cryptocurrency,

The price of bitcoin topped $100,000 again early Friday as a pumped up cryptocurrency industry expects early action by Donald Trump when he’s sworn in as president next week.

A new memecoin promoted by Trump on X and Truth Social has sent expectations of a Trump inauguration bombshell sky

In December, Trump tapped Paul Atkins to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission. Atkins, a former SEC commissioner under President George W. Bush, has worked recently on digital assets and is set to replace Gary Gensler, who is seen by many as a crypto critic.

The new business venture by the Trump family is generating intensifying criticism and ethics questions, even as it has turned into an overnight phenomenon, generating a windfall on paper.

Trump's embrace of cryptocurrency could mark a change from the regulatory hammer that has fallen on crypto companies under the Biden administration.

Donald Trump has launched the $Trump cryptocurrency, marking a bold entry into the digital currency market as he prepares to assume office as the 47th President of the United States. The announcement came on Friday night via his social media platform,