"God candle," Samson Mow, a bitcoin developer who leads the Jan3 bitcoin wallet company, posted to X as the bitcoin price suddenly soared, hitting $109,400 on the Coinbase bitcoin and crypto exchange.

The price of altcoin XRP is up 2% over the past 24 hours in afternoon trading. Other cryptos including Bitcoin and Ether were rising too. XRP is up more than 500% since Nov. 5 and

A leak has revealed the incoming Trump administration could create a wider crypto reserve—prioritizing U.S.-created cryptocurrencies such as XRP and

Ahead of his return to the White House, the United States, US President-elect Donald Trump has launched his own cryptocurrency, $Trump. BBC reports that the meme coin quickly soared in market capitalisation to several billion dollars hours after it was launched.