Bitcoin surges past $75,000 on election night as Donald Trump wins the 2024 US presidential election, having campaigned on explicitly pro-Bitcoin policies including a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, opposition to a CBDC, and a promise to make America "the crypto capital of the world." The first US election where Bitcoin was a meaningful campaign issue. Trump also pledged to pardon Ross Ulbricht and appoint Bitcoin-friendly regulators. The Bitcoin community mobilized politically like never before, with significant PAC spending influencing key Senate races.
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