L’impact de la visite de Donald Trump dans un bar Bitcoin sur le cours de la cryptomonnaie
Ahead of his campaign rally at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, former President Donald Trump stopped off to greet supporters at Pubkey, a Greenwich Village-based « Bitcoin bar. »
While leaving the cryptocurrency-themed establishment, which opened in fall, 2022, Trump paid for patrons’ food and drinks with Bitcoin, a transaction he described as « very easy. It goes quickly and beautifully. »
Une hausse de 4,7% du prix du Bitcoin
Following the visit, which occurred at around 5 p.m. E.D.T., according to the New York Post, Bitcoin’s price has seen a 4.7 percent rise from $60,244.92 to $63,109.80.
While well below its near-record 9.5 percent gain in February, this is the first time Bitcoin has surpassed the $62,000 threshold since late August, and the spike raises the question of whether the nominee’s tacit endorsement could have boosted the cryptocurrency.
Des avis mitigés sur l’impact de Trump sur le Bitcoin
Cathy Mulligan, a digital technology researcher and founding Co-Director of the Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering, spoke about Trump’s use of Bitcoin. Mulligan described the 4 percent, $3,000-dollar jump as « a small bump, » which is not that significant compared to the currency’s high price.
Cryptocurrency analyst David Gerard, who authored the 2017 book « Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain, » concurred with Mulligan, and said that a price fluctuation of a few thousand dollars was « normal » for such « thinly traded commodities, » whose low trading volumes lead to greater price volatility.
Autres facteurs influençant le cours du Bitcoin
Peter McCormack, host of the « What Bitcoin Did » podcast, highlighted other more significant events that could have influenced Bitcoin’s price, chief among which being the Federal Reserve’s Thursday decision to lower its benchmark interest rate to the range of 4.75-5 percent, the first cut in over four years.
« The types of movements we have seen in the Bitcoin price over the last few days is nothing abnormal, » McCormack added. « Bitcoin moves up and down quite regularly. »
Source : www.newsweek.com