Despite President Donald Trump's promise of $5,000 dividend checks to every American adult if Republicans hold both houses of Congress, the cryptocurrency sat right where it's been sitting — trading between $77,650 and $78,000 on Thursday morning, basically glued to that range since September 9. At 8:25 a.m. EST, bitcoin clocked in at $77,719. A political splash that big, and the market barely blinked.