Ross Ulbricht has thanked Donald Trump for giving him a full and unconditional pardon—and hinted that he plans to play a role in public life. The 40-year-old founded Silk Road, a darknet marketplace where illegal drugs were bought and sold anonymously using Bitcoin. It operated from 2011 to 2013, and Ulbricht was later handed two life sentences plus 40 years…
Excluding dollar-pegged stablecoins, nearly every major cryptocurrency ranked in the top 100 coins by market cap is up over the last day, per data from CoinGecko, with few exceptions—and one of them is President Donald Trump’s official Solana meme coin, TRUMP. While major coins like Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Solana, and XRP are showing gains over the last 24 hours following a…
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Thursday was another day of net inflows into U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs, continuing a six-day flow of green trading activity. Bitcoin ETFs Record Sixth Consecutive Day of Inflows On Thursday, Jan. 23, bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw a net inflow of $188.65 million, marking the sixth consecutive day of inflows. With a daily trading volume […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-etfs-approach-122-billion-as-inflow-streak-continues/
CBDCs have little use for the US, but jurisdictions like the EU have good reasons to keep building wholesale CBDCs following Trump’s CBDC ban. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/cbdc-ban-trump-impact-global-cbdcs?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
AI agents automate DeFi trading and liquidity, but concerns about data accuracy and safety spark vital questions. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-agents-defi-safety-data?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
Can Solana hit four figures this year? Several market analysts believe that a $1,000 price target is possible this cycle, particularly under Trump’s administration. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-stablecoin-supply-10b-ath-tvl-sol-price-1k?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
A trader who invested over $1 million in memecoins lost almost 90% of the funds in two days as meme-based tokens dropped. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/trump-memecoin-losses-traders-lose-millions?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
Conor Grogan, Director of Product Strategy at Coinbase, has recently linked 430 bitcoin to the now-free former founder and operator of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht. According to Grogan, these funds are scattered across dozens of wallets that were not confiscated at the time of Silk Road’s takedown operation, and have been untouched for more than […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/dust-worth-millions-coinbase-executive-identifies-ross-ulbricht-linked-wallets-containing-430-bitcoin/
Canada’s FINTRAC updates AML strategies, emphasizing cryptocurrency’s role in combating synthetic opioid-related money laundering. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/curbing-crypto-opioid-money-laundering-fintrac-alert?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
