A congressman has disclosed buying Bitcoin BTC/USD on four occasions in 2025, with some of the trades happening past the 45-day window, adding to the recent calls to ban members of Congress from buying and selling stocks and other investments.

What Happened: A bill that would ban members of Congress from buying stocks and options may not apply to cryptocurrency purchases, which could be good news for members who have bought Bitcoin, meme coins and Bitcoin ETFs.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas), a close ally of President Donald Trump, is the latest member of Congress to disclose buying cryptocurrency.

Gill disclosed the following Bitcoin purchases, with their transaction dates listed below:

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Pump.fun plans to raise $1 billion via a token sale, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Blockworks. 

Three sources said the sale would come at a $4 billion token valuation. 

The token will be sold to both public and private investors, sources added. Blockworks could not immediately confirm when the token is set to go live or whether it will be issued on the pump.fun platform. However, a post on X teased that it could come in the next two weeks.

The potential $4 billion token valuation would mint pump.fun as crypto’s latest unicorn startup after a year in which it helped ignite a memecoin frenzy.

Pump.fun did not immediately return multiple requests for…

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“Shitcoin Magazine,” tweeted Bitcoin educator and author Knut Svanholm about the event that BTC Inc, the parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, organized in Las Vegas last week. Dancing cows dashed across my feed. “It’s a political convention now,” I overheard two attendees saying as they exited the Nakamoto stage, heads shaking. Nigel Farage, the inflammatory British politician and leader of Reform UK, was shouting on stage about becoming prime minister. A somewhat calmer personality, Vice President JD Vance spoke about “crypto” and thanked Coinbase.

Word on the (online) street is that Bitcoin 2025 was captured by political and shitcoin-y interests. Our own…

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A female-focused crypto community known as the Berabaddies has teamed up with infra firm Concrete to launch a community-yield vault that offers yield farming on Berachain, all with the goal of making DeFi simpler and easier for non-technical traders and those newer to crypto.

Berachain launched earlier this year, back in February — and the Berabaddies formed shortly afterward. The girl group is separate from the Berachain Foundation and team, and is incubated by Berachain-focused venture studio Honey Jar plus Ursadom Labs.

“Berachain is the community that I found my home in and I found my…

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Arthur Hayes, former BitMEX CEO and prominent crypto influencer, recently made waves by urging that Bitcoin could possibly surge to $250,000 by the end of 2025, more than double its current figure in less than six months. This has been dismissed by some as overly optimistic, yet a growing body of macroeconomic and on-chain data shows his call is not as fanciful as it seems.

The source article is here: https://decrypt.co/323135/money-printing-lift-bitcoin-250k-this-year-arthur-hayes

Independent of this article, there are other macro signals which support this view.

Macro Tailwinds: M2 Money Supply Is Growing Again

One of the most compelling arguments for Hayes’ estimation is in global…

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