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President Donald Trump made history when he pardoned a corporation, the Mahe, Seychelles-based BitMEX. The crypto exchange has been operating since 2014. In addition to pardoning it of its money laundering conviction following a guilty plea in July 2024, the president added its three founders and a senior employee. Trump signed the pardons without publicizing them, so the BitMEX pardons were not as widely anticipated as that of Ross Ulbricht in January. While campaigning for reelection, the president pledged at the Libertarian Convention in May 2024 to pardon the Silk Road founder. Now crypto communities are wondering if the president will grant some other founders clemency. They include some big names like FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Here are four cryptocurrency founders Trump just pardoned in March and three more that might follow soon. BitMEX pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 by failing to police its exchange for money laundering properly. As a result, the US Dept. of Justice announced a $100 million fine for BitMEX on Jan. 15. Furthermore, the DOJ put the exchange’s parent company on two years of probation. U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky said the fine sends a message that consequences for violating anti-money laundering policies will be severe. In addition to BitMEX’s conviction, the US government previously found its founder, Arthur Hayes, guilty of his company’s violations. After starting his exchange, Hayes became the youngest African American billionaire in history. In May 2022, the government sentenced Hayes to six months in supervised home detention and two years of probation. Following his pardon in March, Hayes thanked the president in a post on X. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson congratulated the Bitcoin exchange founder. In his first blog update since the pardon, Hayes wrote a lengthy and technical critique of Trump’s trade wars using tariffs on imports. After the pardons, BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo released a note stating the DOJ “wrongfully targeted BitMEX and its co-founders.” Delo also thanked Trump for the pardons: “This full and unconditional pardon by President Trump is a vindication of the position we have always held – that BitMEX, my co-founders and I should never have been charged with a criminal offense through an obscure, antiquated law.” Delo asserted regulators pressed the case against his exchange for political reasons: “As the most successful crypto exchange of its kind, we were wrongfully made to serve as an example, sacrificed for political reasons and used to send inconsistent regulatory signals.” A British national, Delo is giving away half of his crypto fortune to charitable causes: “A legal wrong has been righted today and despite the distress I have been through over the past few years I’m pleased to have cleared my name and to be able to continue my life and philanthropic work without the burden of an unfounded conviction.” BitMEX CTO Samuel Reed also got a pardon from Mr. Trump. He pled guilty along with his business partners to violating anti-money laundering and Know Your Customer regulations in Mar. 2022. As a result, he got slapped with a $10 million fine while facing down the possibility of five years in prison. He wound up getting 18 months of probation instead. In addition, the exchange’s former Head of Business Development, Gregory Dwyer, received a pardon for his Bank Secrecy Act conviction along with the others. He agreed to pay a fine of $150,000. BitMEX has stayed busy in the meantime, building its extraordinary reputation for security. Last November, the exchange marked ten years as the crypto exchange with the longest streak of losing zero customers’ funds to hacks. This month, BitMEX boosted staking rewards for BMEX by 50%. The pardons prompted CNBC’s Jim Cramer to wonder out loud if Trump might spring Sam Bankman-Fried from a 25-year prison sentence. His financial news site, TheStreet, reported : “As Trump’s pardons stir debate across the crypto world, speculation grows over who could be next — with names like SBF, CZ, and Roger Ver dividing the prediction markets.” Ross Ulbricht founded the legendary Silk Road exchange under the screen name Dread Pirate Roberts in 2011. The “dark web” exchange allowed users to buy and sell illegal items and services like scheduled drugs and assassin services and pay vendors using Bitcoin. While serving a life sentence for criminal enterprise, drug trafficking, money laundering, and computer hacking, Trump pardoned him with overwhelming support for the move from the cryptocurrency community. The day Trump pardoned him , the odds on PolyMarket rose to 93%. At his sentencing hearing, Ulbricht said, “I wanted to empower people to make choices in their lives and have privacy and anonymity.” He’s set to share his story in a new documentary. The FTX exchange founder, known online as SBF, is serving a 25-year sentence for wire fraud and financial fraud that surfaced during the crypto market crash in 2022. In January, Bloomberg reported that SBF’s parents are seeking a pardon from the president. Once a big donor to the Democratic Party, SBF has made a hard right pivot. He bashed SDNY Judge Kaplan in a February New York Sun interview by telephone, the judge who handed Trump a loss in a salacious civil trial. Then turned around in March and gave a bombshell prison interview to Tucker Carlson that the jail administrators did not authorize. Ultra-early Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) investor Roger Ver has been in detention in Spain since Apr. 2024, fighting extradition to the US on charges of tax evasion. Because of his status as a very early Bitcoin and crypto promoter, the media nicknamed Ver Bitcoin Jesus. In Feb. 2024, a grand jury in California indicted Ver for “three counts of mail fraud, two counts of tax evasion, and three counts of subscription to a false tax return.” He reached out in January to President Trump for a pardon, posting on X: “Mr. President, I am an American, and I need your help. Only you, with your commitment to justice, can save me @realDonaldTrump.” Ross Ulbricht came to his defense in February in an X post suggesting he should just be allowed to pay any taxes owed and be free again. CZ, the software engineer and business mastermind behind the globally class-leading crypto exchange Binance, is already out of jail after a four-month stint in California last year. He has denied rumors of any business involvement with the Trump crypto enterprises. But the BitMEX pardons added fuel to the fire of rumors that Trump may pardon Zhao next. That would allow him to get back to a leadership role at Binance.

$ETH | H4 & H12 While many coins broke their bearish ranges this shit couldn't even reach the H4 & H12 swing highs within the H4 & H12 FVG. The H4 BPR did its job and price bounced, but nothing interesting. Still trading within the bearish H4 and H12 and not even close to the bearish OBs. Looking for shorts if the bearish POIs above are swept, longs - zero interest.

Weekly and Monthly Performance One of the biggest game changers in trading is consistently tracking your weekly and monthly performance. When you combine that with clear, realistic targets and the discipline to control your greed, you’ll be on the right path quickly. Clarity, structure, and emotional control are what separate real traders from the gamblers. So what is a realistic goal? Think about it: The average fund offers around a 10% annual return. The better-performing ones, which actively trade, might reach 30–50%. The very best, the elite traders sometimes hit 100% annually, but only after years of experience, refinement, and usually as part of a sophisticated team where each member brings a unique edge. Now ask yourself this: If some of the brightest minds in finance, with decades of experience and full-time resources, are producing those kinds of returns, how likely is it that the average shitcoiner is going to outperform them on a weekly or monthly basis? Exactly — the odds are basically zero. Sure, there are outliers. Some people hit it big. But they’re often just lucky lottery winners, and most can’t replicate their success. There’s nothing to learn from that. No process. No edge. Just noise. These stories sell dreams — dreams of getting rich quick — and they lure people into throwing their life savings into hot air. But real traders know better. They know it’s not about the quick win. It’s about sustainable, repeatable performance. With discipline and patience. So what’s the smarter strategy here? I’d argue that setting realistic targets is by far the better approach and something every serious trader should be doing. Personally, I aim for around 10% per month on my trading accounts. That breaks down to about 2.5% per week. At first glance, that might not sound like much — but everything depends on the size you’re trading. For example, if you're managing a $100K account, that’s $2.5K a week or $10K a month. That’s solid performance and for many, more than enough to live well. It's not flashy, it’s not “get rich overnight,” but it’s consistent, sustainable, and most importantly — replicable. And that’s what real trading is all about. Of course, I don’t always hit my targets on every account, but more often than not, I come close. And when I combine that with some well-timed spot investments, it adds up to a pretty solid income. Some weeks or months, I give a bit back to the market, that’s part of the game. But when I zoom out and look at the bigger picture, I’m genuinely happy with my overall performance. The power of having these “small” weekly or monthly targets lies in their achievability. If you aim for 2% a week, it’s realistic and you can build real momentum through consistency. Compare that to throwing your entire life savings at one position hoping for 1000%… the odds are basically zero. One is sustainable. The other is a gamble dressed as ambition. 2.5% really isn’t much when you think about it. If I take a position with 1% risk, that’s just 2.5R realised and with solid TA and no greed, that’s very achievable. When you operate with realistic targets, your mindset shifts. You find yourself saying things like: “Ah, I’ll take that 2% and go have a nice dinner,” instead of, “If Fartcoin reaches the market cap of Bitcoin, I can finally buy my third helicopter.” That kind of grounded attitude is what lets you extract from the market week after week, month after month. Consistency > Fantasy. Every time. If you can consistently achieve 100% per year, you’re among the top traders in the world. And here’s the kicker: That kind of performance turns a $10K account into $1.28 million in just seven years. Show me another profession where you can generate that kind of return with a similar time and focus investment + freedom of space. There aren’t many. That’s the power of consistency, compounding, and real skill over hype. If you need $2.5K a month to live, you can make that through trading with a $25K account, as long as you manage to pull 10% a month. Of course, having a bigger cushion is ideal, but that’s not the point. The point is this: If you stop chasing unrealistic targets and spend just 15 minutes thinking through the actual math, your life and trading will start to make sense. Clarity kills delusion and once you understand the numbers, everything changes. The big traders I mentioned earlier often operate with massive sums and that comes with its own challenges. It usually requires licenses, special connections, and a whole different skill set, because once you reach a certain size, you start moving the market. But for us small, un-greedy fish, that’s our biggest strength. We can enter and exit “full-size” in almost any market without leaving a trace. Use that to your advantage. Set realistic targets. Stay nimble. And drain the market consistently: Week by Week, Month by Month and Year by Year.

The crypto market is swaying, the nerves are frayed, and tokens are raining down like dead leaves in a macroeconomic autumn. Yet, in this grim setting, Shiba Inu (SHIB) holds on, refusing the addition of a fatal zero, and resists where others have already collapsed. No lyrical flight for now, but there is tension in the air: what if the calm heralds a spectacular comeback? As Bitcoin wavers between hiccup and paralysis, even for the coming months , SHIB stands firm. Despite a 3.08% drop in 24h, the token proudly maintains its position above $0.00001, narrowly avoiding the humiliation of an additional zero. The support at $0.00001028 has, once again, served as a floor against the downpour. Short-term indicators give fodder to optimists. If the crypto SHIB breaks the resistance at $0.00001109 and the candle closes at a peak, the movement could take it toward $0.00001150. However, the bulls, after several timid charges, seem short on fuel. The most likely scenario? A consolidation in the $0.00001050 – $0.00001150 zone. In the medium term, the issue lies elsewhere: the weekly close must move significantly away from the pivot level of $0.00001078. Only under this condition will analysts dare to speak of a rebound toward $0.000012. In the midst of the malaise, the SHIB community does not give up. Lucie, an engaged member of the team, blows on the embers with confidence: SHIB holds firm. When the turnaround comes, it can happen very quickly. Look at its current valuation. Some are sleeping on it, but those who pay attention know what’s coming. In other words: the ambient torpor is nothing but a temporary sleep. The informed, however, are ready. In a second breath, she readjusts the skeptics in her way: The echo chambers full of FUD about SHIB are trying to sell you their other crap — meh! SHIB simply follows the market. But let’s be honest — no one really doubts its real value. A clear message addressed to fear sellers: the fundamentals are there, even if the price is not following yet. The fate of SHIB, as often, does not depend solely on its community or its technical levels. It relies on a broader mechanism: the awakening of the crypto market as a whole. Recent massive liquidations — $445 million in 24h — show that investors are sailing blind, caught in a sea of macroeconomic uncertainties. No sustainable recovery for SHIB will materialize without a positive signal from bitcoin. In the meantime, SHIB remains suspended at its support, ready to jump if the planets align… or to bend if the market plunges further. The memecoin Shiba Inu takes hits, steps back, but does not capitulate and promises a spectacular comeback . Its line at $0.00001 is more than just a number: it is a declaration of resistance. While bearish echoes rattle on the networks, the community holds its ground. The turnaround? It might come… but not without bitcoin showing the way.

Fred Ehrsam and Brian Armstrong started Coinbase in a two-bedroom apartment thirteen years ago. Both men are now billionaires, but Ehrsam has quietly parlayed his fortunes into neuroscience innovation, launching a brain interface startup in 2024 called Nudge. On Monday, the firm unveiled its first product, the Nudge Zero, a non-invasive ultrasound neuromodulation device. That’s a mouthful, but “non-invasive ultrasound neuromodulation” simply means modifying brain activity by using an ultrasound machine. Such a device emits ultrasound waves that impact cell membranes in the brain without causing permanent changes or damage. (The “Nudge Zero” is the first device from Fred Ehrsam’s neuroscience startup / Nudge on X) Reasons for using ultrasound neuromodulation devices vary, but they typically fall into two overlapping categories, medical and therapeutic. Medical issues would include neurological conditions such as epilepsy and pain management, while therapeutic conditions would encompass less acute scenarios such as depression. The Nudge Zero, according to Ehrsam, will first tackle acute medical conditions, and its predecessor will eventually be introduced as a therapeutic solution for individuals seeking various forms of mental well-being. “We will first use the device to attempt to treat acute medical conditions in the coming months,” Ehrsam explained. “With the eventual goal of creating a headphone-like miniaturized version … to enhance mood, cognition, and daily life for healthy people.” (Computer renderings of what Nudge’s therapeutic wearables may look like once launched / Nudge on X) Prior to launching Nudge in 2024, Ehrsam and Sequioa veteran Matt Huang co-founded Paradigm in 2018, a crypto-focused venture capital firm that manages three funds, the most recent of which closed at $850 million last June. The 36-year-old Ehrsam, now worth $2.1 billion, according to Forbes, stepped away from his managing partner role at the firm in 2023 but has remained at Paradigm as a general partner. It appears neuroscience and not crypto is now his primary focus. “We believe improving the human experience is the most important thing to work on. This should be the goal of technology,” Ehrsam said. “And building technologies to interface with the brain is the most direct way of doing so.” 免责声明：本文章仅代表作者个人观点，不代表本平台的立场和观点。本文章仅供信息分享，不构成对任何人的任何投资建议。用户与作者之间的任何争议，与本平台无关。如网页中刊载的文章或图片涉及侵权，请提供相关的权利证明和身份证明发送邮件到support@aicoin.com，本平台相关工作人员将会进行核查。