Trump, tariffs and the 2025 bull market: Insights from Altcoin Daily interview

Lushsux’s street art is celebrated by Banksy and Beeple; his NFTs have made millions; and he has a landmark auction planned for a “major auction house” next March — but he’s still very much a man of the people.The artist is showing me around his studio warehouse in inner-city Melbourne but gets concerned when I…

Ether, the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, rose to $1,161 but immediately corrected thereafter. 3361 Total views 10 Total shares The price of Ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain, achieved $1,161 for the first time since January 2018. Immediately after it hit a new three-year high, ETH corrected to below $900.Ether rallied due…

Stablecoin use could be "stifled" by daily transaction caps in the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) legislation, with some calling for the framework to be revised.On May 31, MiCA was signed into law which paved the way for the world’s first regulatory guidance on cryptocurrencies to come into effect. The legislation was received positively…

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said in a question and answer session hosted by the Cato Institute on Sept. 8 that the central bank will continue to hike rates until inflation is under control. However, these comments did not rattle the markets as much as most would have anticipated, indicating that traders might have already…

The Department of Economic Development in Dubai has announced its move to a blockchain-based unified business registry platform (UBRP).According to a Saudi Gazette report on Oct. 7, the platform aims to improve the ease of doing business in Dubai and enable license issuers to manage trade licenses and corporate registries.The Silicon Oasis Authority, the Dubai Electricity and…

There are always two components to each altcoin’s price. One is the coin’s own characteristics: Fundamentals, investor sentiment toward the asset, liquidity and trading volume, among many others. Another powerful factor — the one that often renders any altcoin-specific dynamics irrelevant — is Bitcoin’s performance.Like it or not, when the king of cryptocurrencies soars, there…

The new partnership targets Bitmain's end customers. China’s crypto mining giant Bitmain has entered a new partnership to streamline its operations in North America.As Bitmain officially announced on Sept. 10, the company has officially partnered with Foundry, a wholly-owned crypto mining subsidiary of major cryptocurrency firm, Digital Currency Group, or DCG. Within the partnership, Foundry…

Fifteen people have pleaded guilty to involvement in an international syndicate that used fraudulent online auctions to dupe victims out of Bitcoin (BTC) according to the United States Department of Justice (DoJ).From at least December 2013, the syndicate used listings for non-existent goods on auction and sales websites to defraud victims, with the group laundering…

Job creation is traditionally engineered by politicians desperate to get the country back to work and to be seen as stimulating the economy. From the job creation programs of the Great Depression to United States President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act, employment schemes have a long, checkered history. Today, fostering meaningful employment for the masses…