On May 22, the bitcoin exchange rate rose to a record $111,000. Antonina Levashenko, Head of the International Best Practices Analysis Department at the Gaidar Institute, said in a commentary for RTVI that the US policy was one of the reasons for the rise of the cryptocurrency.
“A working group has been created under the president. It is tasked with removing regulatory barriers and proposing how to form a national reserve of digital assets — bitcoin will be included in it. In parallel, Donald Trump banned any projects to create, issue and promote central bank digital currencies (CBDC) both in the United States and abroad,” Antonina Levashenko explained. According to the expert, it was the creation of favorable conditions in the United States that became one of the key factors that pushed bitcoin to new records.