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AUSTIN, Texas, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- DMND ("Demand Pool"), the world's first Stratum V2 Bitcoin mining pool, announced the opening of the application for miners to join DMND as launch partners today. Successful applicants will benefit from a 0% fee for an initial two-month period, as well as a special two-year founding miner agreement. DMND also announced its venture capital financing that took place in Q4 2024, led by Trammell Venture Partners ("TVP"). Stratum V2 enhances Bitcoin's decentralization and privacy by enabling miners to construct their own block templates....

United Kingdom prosecutors allege an officer working for the country’s National Crime Agency (NCA) stole 50 Bitcoin (BTC) back in 2017. The Crown Prosecution Services authorized Merseyside Police to charge NCA officer Paul Chowles with 11 counts of concealing, disguising, or converting criminal property, three counts of acquiring, using or possessing converting criminal property and a single count of theft. The 50 BTC was priced at £60,000 ($77,658) back in 2017 and is worth £3.26 million ($4.2 million) at time of writing. Chowles, 42, is set to appear at Liverpool...

SYMBOL - 23 April 2024, Baden-Württemberg, Rottweil: The logos of the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin ... (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), the stablecoin Tether (USDT) and Binance Coin (BNB) can be seen on the trading platform CoinMarcetCap. (Image with longer exposure time). Photo: Silas Stein/dpa (Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images)dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Private, or “crypto” money will eventually replace government money. Bank on it. As written in The Money Confusion, profits from the trading of fiat currency chaos ($7 trillion per day worth of currency trading) ensure the eventual...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday establishing a government reserve of bitcoin.Under Trump's new order, the U.S. government will retain the estimated 200,000 bitcoin it's already seized in criminal and civil proceedings, according to Trump's "crypto czar" David Sacks.“The U.S. will not sell any bitcoin deposited into the Reserve. It will be kept as a store of value. The Reserve is like a digital Fort Knox for the cryptocurrency often called ‘digital gold,’” Sacks said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.Sacks vows...

North Carolina could add bitcoin and other cryptocurrency into its state investment portfolio under a bill moving in the state House this week. Advocates, including the House speaker, think it could improve returns for the state pension fund. The Digital Assets Investments Act is the first bill sponsored by new Republican House Speaker Destin Hall. Hall said in a news release that the legislation would make North Carolina a leader in technological innovation. He said cryptocurrency investments have "the potential to generate positive yields for our state investment fund."Hall’s co-sponsor...

North Carolina could add bitcoin and other cryptocurrency into its state investment portfolio under a bill moving in the state House this week. Advocates, including the House speaker, think it could improve returns for the state pension fund. The Digital Assets Investments Act is the first bill sponsored by new Republican House Speaker Destin Hall. Hall said in a news release that the legislation would make North Carolina a leader in technological innovation. He said cryptocurrency investments have "the potential to generate positive yields for our state investment fund."Hall’s co-sponsor...

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices jumped after President Donald Trump named them in a post about a crypto strategic reserve. The price of Bitcoin jumped more than 10% on Sunday, after President Donald Trump said it would be part of a Crypto Strategic Reserve, along with a handful of other digital currencies. Although he didn’t initially mention Bitcoin by name, he did name smaller digital assets whose prices also spiked. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said his executive order on digital assets directed the Presidential Working Group to...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on March 2 the first five cryptocurrencies that will form a U.S. strategic crypto reserve: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Solana, and Cardano. Bitcoin and Ethereum are the two largest cryptocurrencies in the world by market value. By establishing a crypto reserve, the U.S. becomes a direct stakeholder in the digital asset market, gaining leverage over global policy, adoption rates, transaction standards, and institutional investment. Trump posted on Truth Social, “I will make sure the U.S. is the Crypto Capital of the World.” SEE: The 6 Best...

Bitcoin has been seen as “digital gold”. But Ethereum has been outperforming Bitcoin in one key ... aspect: supply expansion.Photothek via Getty Images President Trump announced yesterday that he had directed his Presidential Working Group to move forward on a Crypto Strategic Reserve that includes XRP, SOL, ADA, Bitcoin (BTC), and Ethereum (ETH), adding, “I love Bitcoin and Ethereum!” For years, Bitcoin has been hailed as “digital gold”—a scarce and predictable store of value. But in recent years Ethereum has quietly outperformed Bitcoin in one key aspect: supply expansion. Since...

After talking about creating a “strategic reserve” of cryptocurrencies during his Presidential bid last year, Donald Trump has for the first time announced five virtual coins he plans to include in the American reserve stockpile – a move which has given a booster shot to the crypto trading market, helping it upend the downward trajectory it seemed to be headed on over concerns around Trump’s uncertain trade decisions.The market prices of the five coins he named – Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana and Cardano – all swiftly jumped after the announcement....