The House Financial Services Committee has already scheduled two hearings on crypto next month. The first, on Feb. 6, 2025, will focus on the aforementioned debanking. The second, set for Feb. 11, is titled "A Golden Age of Digital Assets: Charting a Path Forward."

Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the science-fiction section of a San Francisco public library. In 2015, after a four-week trial,

Incoming first lady Melania Trump has launched her own cryptocurrency on the eve of her husband, President-elect Donald Trump, being inaugurated and days after he announced his own memecoin.

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

Melania Trump launched a meme coin on the eve of her husband’s inauguration — causing his own new cryptocurrency to briefly tank amid a buying frenzy. The incoming first lady dropped news of the cryptocurrency — “$MELANIA” — on Sunday night — just days after her husband, President-elect Donald Trump, revealed his own newly created $TRUMP coin.

The Guardian, a UK publication with a strong U.S. presence, went hard after President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency meme coin last week, with a headline that said “Experts alarmed by Trump’s crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption.’”

Feeling burned by the holdover of Obama administration appointees during his first go-around, Trump swiftly exiled Biden holdovers and moved to test new hires for their fealty to his agenda.

Americans have begun questioning Melania Trump's motives surrounding her new business and career moves heading into President Donald Trump's second administration

Europe is braced for significant economic challenges under Trump's presidency, including its car industry, energy supply, and the euro's devaluation, alongside the potential for resurging inflation. V