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Trump Will Headline Bitcoin 2024 Conference—His Latest ‘Crypto President’ Rebrand Effort

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Former president and one-time bitcoin detractor Donald Trump will speak at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee, this weekend alongside other political figures, looking to further his rebrand as a “crypto president” ahead of Election Day.

Key Facts

Characterized as the world’s largest bitcoin conference, the three-day event hosted at the Music City Center convention complex features a wide range of speakers such as independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., political commentator and comedian Russell Brand and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

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The conference features educational panels, networking opportunities and entertainment experiences such as a Karate Combat/Influencer Fight Club viewing and a screening of a bitcoin movie, “God Bless Bitcoin,” which features interviews with people such as billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.

Trump will give a 30-minute keynote address Saturday during the conference’s final day, in a speech that will likely attempt to court voters and capitalize on support he has already received from key cryptocurrency figures like the Winklevoss twins.

Tickets to the conference are pricey, starting at $699 and reaching as high as $21,000 for a single ticket—though prospective attendees can get tickets at a 21% discount if they purchase them with bitcoin.

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Surprising Fact

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower behind one of the largest classified documents leaks in the history of the National Security Agency, is expected to speak Friday from Russia, and has called the cryptocurrency “the most significant monetary advance since the creation of coinage.”

Tangent

Bitcoin traded down more than 2% at just under $65,000 Thursday afternoon, having mostly plateaued in the last three months, posting gains of a fraction of a percent. It has surged more than 53% since the start of the year.

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Big Number

$1.8 million. That is how many dollars worth of bitcoin Trump supporters donated to the Republican nominee through the end of June, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Key Background

The bitcoin conference has historically been used by public figures and companies as an event to announce partnerships and initiatives. In 2021, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced at the event that the country would be making bitcoin a legal tender. Attendance has been inconsistent in recent years, as 25,000 people appeared at the convention in 2022 (when the crypto market experienced one of its worst crashes ever) and 12,000 attended in 2023, according to Bloomberg. Bitcoin 2024 has yet to share attendance numbers, though big-name speakers like Trump could generate more tickets than prior years.

What Has Donald Trump Said About Bitcoin?

Trump has increasingly warmed up to cryptocurrency as Election Day draws closer, ditching the skepticism he had for it years ago. While president in 2019 he said he was not a fan of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, calling their values “highly volatile and based on thin air” in a tweet. He also told Fox News in 2021 bitcoin “just seems like a scam,” saying he did not like it “because it’s another currency competing against the dollar.” Since then, Trump has embraced cryptocurrency, allowing supporters to donate to his campaign with bitcoin and selecting a running mate in JD Vance, R-Ohio, who supports and owns at least $100,000 worth of bitcoin. The cryptocurrency market may benefit from Trump winning in November, with bitcoin remaining “sensitive” to the election as its price is “positively correlated with the probability” of a Trump victory, according to Bernstein analysts led by Gautam Chhugani. Trump’s Democratic challenger, Vice President Kamala Harris, is likely to adopt the regulation-centric crypto policies of her former running mate, President Joe Biden.

Further Reading

Billionaire Winklevoss Twins Donate $2 Million In Bitcoin To Support Donald Trump (Forbes)

Are Trump And Vance Good For Bitcoin? Here’s Why The Market Thinks So—Even Though Trump’s Called It A ‘Scam.’ (Forbes)

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WisdomTree has launched a new cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP), the US asset manager announced today, with a focus on the XRP digital currency.

The new WisdomTree Physical XRP (XRPW), joins the firm’s $1.1bn lineup of physically backed cryptocurrency products, designed to provide European investors with a straightforward, regulated means of investing in digital assets without direct ownership.

The XRP asset, native to the XRP Ledger (XRPL), has carved out a unique role for itself in the digital currency landscape, as a blockchain optimised for cross-border payments and high-speed transactions.

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Bitcoin Hits $95K For The First Time Ever, Ethereum, Dogecoin Flat As Trump's Crypto Policy Takes Shape: Top Analyst Describes BTC's Path To $135K – Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust (BTC) Common units of fractional undivided beneficial interest (ARCA:BTC)

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Bitcoin Hits K For The First Time Ever, Ethereum, Dogecoin Flat As Trump's Crypto Policy Takes Shape: Top Analyst Describes BTC's Path To 5K – Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust (BTC) Common units of fractional undivided beneficial interest (ARCA:BTC)

Bitcoin hit $95,000 for the first time ever, following reports of a cryptocurrency-focused role in the incoming Donald Trump administration.

Cryptocurrency Gains +/- Price (Recorded at 7:45 p.m. ET)
Bitcoin BTC/USD +2.73% $94,794.86
Ethereum ETH/USD
               
-0.98% $3,083.96
Dogecoin DOGE/USD           -0.87% $0.3845

What Happened: The leading cryptocurrency briefly surpassed the never-seen-before level overnight on Wednesday before rebounding.

With the latest uptick, Bitcoin’s weekly gains jumped to nearly 5%, while its market dominance reached 60%. Its returns for November have shot past 33% already, against the historical average of 45%. 

On the contrary, Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, slid below $3,100. It was down over 3.5% over the week.

Bitcoin’s rally followed reports of a dedicated cryptocurrency role in Trump’s administration that would act as a bridge between the White House, Congress, and regulatory agencies like the SEC and CFTC.

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Nearly $350 million in leveraged positions were liquidated from the cryptocurrency market in the last 24 hours, with long liquidations accounting for $241 million.

Bitcoin’s Open Interest (OI) surged 6.52% in the last 24 hours, implying heightened speculative interest among derivatives traders.

Most of the new bets favored Bitcoin’s price increase as the number of long positions increased vis-à-vis shorts, according to the Long/Shorts Ratio.

Market sentiment remained in the “Extreme Greed” zone, as per the Cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index.

Top Gainers (24-Hours)

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Cryptocurrency Gains +/- Price (Recorded at 7:45 p.m. ET)
Floki (FLOKI) +14.94% $0.0002822
UNUS SED LEO (LEO) +6.46% $8.47
Tezos (XTZ) +5.35% $1.08

The global cryptocurrency market capitalization stood at $3.12 trillion, following an increase of 1.32% in the last 24 hours.

Stocks traded mixed on Wednesday. The S&P 500 ended the session flat, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid 0.11% to close at 18,966.14. The Dow Jones Industrial Average

The Nasdaq Composite lifted 195.66 points, or 1.04%, to end at 18,987.47. The S&P 500 added 0.40% to close at 5,916.98. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was the outlier, surging 139.53 points, or 0.32%, to end at 43,408.47.

Nvidia Corp. NVDA shares finished 0.76% lower ahead of third-quarter earnings, which eventually turned out to be better than expected.

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Analyst Notes: Noted cryptocurrency analyst Ali Martinez drew a parallel with Bitcoin’s Dec. 2020 trajectory, observing a “nearly identical” Relative Strength Index (RSI).

“If true, BTC will go to $108,000, drop to $99,000, and bounce to $135,000,” Martinez added. 

Another widely-followed analyst, Rekt Capital, stated that Bitcoin dips from the previously broken resistance would mean a “post-breakout retest.”

“These retests aren’t always necessary but BTC’s most recent downside wicking demonstrates that there is at least retesting intent in the price action,” the analyst remarked.

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