2024-11-20
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Not just for the man, but also for crypto bros and their assets of choice.
On election night, as it became clear Mr Trump had won America's presidential election,
the price of Bitcoin, the most widely traded cryptocurrency, jumped by 10%.
On November 13th, just before Republicans secured control of Congress,
it shot above $93,000.
Since mid-October, it has surged by nearly 50%.
Bitcoin is not alone in feeling the love.
Excluding stablecoins, which are designed to avoid price swings,
the top 20 crypto coins have appreciated even faster on average than Bitcoin over the past week.
Dogecoin, a meme coin often promoted by Elon Musk,
a Trump fan-turned-advisor, has risen by 140% since election day.
The value of the global cryptocurrency market hit $3 trillion for the first time on November 12.
That marks a stunning comeback from 2022 to 2023 when a perfect storm sent cryptocurrencies tumbling from the peaks they had reached during the main year of 2021.
Back then,
the Federal Reserve was briskly raising interest rates cooling the speculative fever that had gripped markets in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.