Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) climbed nearly 7% Thursday to approximately $72,500 after a $500 million short squeeze helped fuel its strongest volatility-adjusted breakout since October 2023.
The Sept. 15 cloture vote has 10% odds. $XRP sits at $1. Ripple already won its SEC case. But the victory that holders treat as permanent was a district court ruling, not a statute, and the next Congress may not be friendly.