Trump Calls for Clarity Act to Stay Ahead of China and Cryptocurrency Market
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“We need Congress to take the next step by passing the Clarity Act — a fair version of the Clarity Act,” Trump said. He added that the bill “will keep us ahead of China, keep us ahead of everyone else, will open the door to the next wave of innovations and innovators.”
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CNBC"We need Congress to take the next step by passing the Clarity Act – a fair version of the Clarity Act," Trump said in opening remarks. "It's a very, very powerful structured legislation which will keep us ahead of China, keep us ahead of everyone else, will open the door to the next wave of innovations and innovators."
ZeroHedge“Now we need Congress to take the next step by passing the Clarity Act, a fair version of the Clarity Act,” Trump said.
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Ether rose about 19% in the past seven days to $2,251, according to CoinGecko. Bitcoin had been stuck between support around $62,000 and resistance at $66,000 in the past six weeks, which became "rather frustrating for crypto traders, as the lack of volatility, even after bitcoin has effectively halved from its all-time high hit last October," said David Morrison, a senior market analyst at Trade Nation.
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On the same day, the White House hosted the CEOs of leading crypto companies – including Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood, Ripple and ChainLink – at a last-minute event in which President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass "a fair version" of the crypto market structure bill known as the Clarity Act before the end of the year. The meeting came in advance of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee meeting taking place Thursday.
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ZeroHedgeTrump called on Congress to pass a “fair version” of the Clarity Act, telling the crypto and finance executive attendees at the White House that market structure legislation is the next step in his administration’s digital asset agenda.
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Investors quickly piled into those assets, which in turn forced short sellers to cover roughly $1.5 billion in positions by buying Bitcoin in the market. That included purchases of about $700 million in a single minute, an event that 21Shares said may have amounted to the largest short squeeze in Bitcoin’s history.
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ZeroHedgeThe most direct trigger came from overcrowded short positions accumulated over six months of consolidation. Bitcoin's prolonged sideways trading around $60,000 allowed leveraged shorts to pile up. When prices broke through key liquidation clusters, forced buybacks triggered a chain reaction of covering, creating a positive feedback loop that amplified the squeeze.
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01 MarketWatch Is the ‘debasement trade’ back on? A crypto comeback is brewing. After months of slumber, digital currencies are waking up, with bitcoin and ethereum shooting higher on Thursday, as traders credited President Donald Trump’s crypto bill initiative and the disturbance in bond markets for reviving momentum in the hard-hit space. Some expressed hope that the latest crypto bear market — which crypto enthusiasts call a “crypto winter” — might finally be drawing to a close after a punishing 10-month stretch.
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02 CNBC Bitcoin is trading at its highest levels since June thanks largely to a last-ditch push from the White House and crypto industry leaders to get the Clarity Act across the finish line in the coming weeks.
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03 Fortune Bitcoin has found some relief after months of selling pressure. On Wednesday, the cryptocurrency jumped nearly 6% to over $69,000, reclaiming a level it had not touched since early June. The jump came right after the Treasury Department announced that it would double purchases of older long-term government bonds.
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04 ZeroHedge Bitcoin surpassed $70,000 for the first time in over two months, propelled by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s 'Operation Twist'-like move pushing US bond yields (and the dollar) lower followed by a high-stakes meeting President Trump held with crypto industry leaders.
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