While institutional investors are leading the bitcoin frenzy, some retail investors are eager not to miss out. Almost a third (31 per cent) of Australian adults now own cryptocurrency, according to the Independent Reserve Cryptocurrency Index, with Baby Boomers the fastest-growing cohort.

President Donald Trump is in Pittsburgh to attend Sen. Dave McCormick's summit at Carnegie Mellon. Gov. Shapiro is also taking part in a panel.

Its rise is comparable to that of gold during the first six months of the Republican presidency. BlackRock's ETF surpasses $80,000 in market capitalization, and Bitcoin alone exceeds the market value of Amazon,

Alphabet Inc.‘s GOOGL GOOG Google division will heavily discount cloud computing services for the U.S. government as the Trump administration pressures technology giants to slash prices on lucrative federal contracts worth more than $20 billion annually.

Changes in immigration policy under the Trump administration have brought dismissals at many of Amazon's more than 1,000 facilities around the U.S.