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The $TRUMP coin will serve as an online prediction market on the popularity of the Trump government.

Trump has made billions from his coin. But it is tearing the crypto world apart

Trump has never been afraid to cash in on his power and fame, but his shock decision to launch a new cryptocurrency has sparked fury.

  • David Yaffe-Bellany and Eric Lipton

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Cryptocurrency and pot – a heady combination.

Rich Lister’s medical marijuana dreams go up in smoke

OneLife Labs has collapsed, owing its creditors $18.5 million.

  • Sarah Danckert
Within hours of its launch, the price of Trump’s oh-so-inventively named meme coin $Trump, had skyrocketed by as much as 600 per cent.

Trump’s ridiculous ‘meme coin’ lays bare crypto’s rotten underbelly

What if I told you about a great investment opportunity that involves putting your hard-earned savings into a product that, two weeks ago, didn’t exist?

  • Victoria Devine
David Balland, a co-founder of French crypto firm Ledger, had his hand mutilated while he and his wife were kidnapped.

Millionaire crypto boss rescued from kidnappers – but not in time to save his finger

Ledger founder David Balland and his wife were freed after a 48-hour police search across France.

  • Henry Samuel
Trump meme coin. Photo: X (formerly known as Twitter)

$Trump meme coin gives new meaning to ‘creating money out of thin air’

The surge in Donald Trump’s meme coin, which didn’t exist a week ago and has no intrinsic value, takes speculative investment to a head-exploding level.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Bitcoin has rocketed since Donald Trump’s decisive election victory.

Trump crypto meme coin creates billions from thin air before his DC return

The coin’s market value has surged to about $9 billion, meaning a massive possible windfall for Trump-linked entities that own most of it.

  • Annie Massa
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers believes cryptocurrency will have a big role to play in the future of the financial system.

Bitcoin, ether, dogecoin – Chalmers says the future may be crypto

Derided by critics as a waste of electricity, cryptocurrencies are the way of the future, its backers say. Australia’s treasurer believes they will have a role.

  • Shane Wright
Donald Trump’s victory in November  turbocharged the crypto market, sparking a record-breaking rally.

Crypto cool, ‘El Loco’ and a 2900 per cent gain in 20 seconds

The booming crypto-investment complex left traditional finance in the dust, Argentina’s libertarian president proved his naysayers wrong, and Tesla’s share rally. Here are the 11 wild trades of 2024.

  • Dave Liedtka, Emily Graffeo, Vildana Hajric, Natalia Kniazhevich, Kevin Simauchi, Davison Santana, Vinícius Andrade, Ye Xie, Yiqin Shen, Carmen Arroyo, Reshmi Basu, Iris Ouyang, Tasos Vossos and Matthew Burgess
David Sacks and Elon Musk in 2006. The men worked together at PayPal.

Trump picks Silicon Valley venture capitalist for ‘AI and Crypto Tsar’

David Sacks, the millionaire founder of Yammer and friend of Elon Musk, was key in attracting financial support from other entrepreneurs for Trump’s campaign.

  • Stephanie Lai and Hadriana Lowenkron
Crypto ATMs such as these are being used to launder money and scam Australian “money mules”.

Australians turned into money mules chasing crypto cash

Australia has the third-largest number of cryptocurrency ATMs in the world. They are being used to launder money for organised criminals.

  • Shane Wright

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