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Bitcoin scam gang made so much money they handed out £5k gift cards in the street

The four-person criminal gang at the centre of the £22m conspiracy worked with ringleader James Parker, operating from his Blackpool home, and even bought cars for strangers they met in the pub

Daily Mirror

Cryptocurrencies are in crisis, but they are not going to disappear

Cryptocurrencies are experiencing their worst crisis since the arrival of the first crypto assets and virtual currencies in the 1990s and their democratization in the 2010s.

The Conversation

Cryptocurrency gang worth £22mil 'handed out £5k gift cards in the street'

The Bitcoin scammers were so wealthy that they bought cars for people they met in the pub.

Daily Record

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Why the crypto world needs more Vitalik Buterins

A recent interview with Buterin in Ukraine underscores how the Ethereum creator is setting an example for other crypto leaders to follow.

Fortune

Bitcoin Relief Rally Spurs Big Crypto Gains

After ending the previous year deep in the red, cryptocurrency prices are soaring again on the back of sudden buying

Zenger

Is crypto about to go extinct?

It will likely survive, but only after more firms and currencies crash and burn. Here’s why.

Al Jazeera

Bitcoin scammers made so much money they 'handed out £5,000 gift cards in the street'

The £22m crypto-currency gang bought cars for people they met in the pub during the 'staggering' scam

Manchester Evening News

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Bitcoin scammers made so much cash they gave away £5k vouchers and bought cars for strangers

The fraudsters bought cars for random people they'd met in the pub and one of them attempted to purchase a villa from Russian gangsters with £1m stuffed inside a briefcase

Wales Online

How to finally get a grip on your finances — from how much to save to why you should avoid ISAs

Author and Moneybox presenter Paul Lewis has the ultimate guide to being smarter with your hard-earned cash in 2023

Evening Standard

Bitcoin up after US inflation decline

Bitcoin jumped above US$19,000, its highest level since November 2022, as US inflation fell to 6.5%, raising analysts' expectations that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates by only 0.25% at its meeting later this month.

Bangkok Post

Bitcoin soars past $20,000. Here's what's behind the recent rally

Bitcoin has broken out again after months at $17,000. Here are some theories to explain the recent rally.

Fortune

Environmental group sues New York for approving crypto mining facility

Lawsuit argues move to allow energy-intensive cryptocurrency miner to take over power plant violates state’s 2019 climate law

The Guardian - US

Illegal crypto activity hit all-time high of $20 billion in 2022

some crypto crooks may be shifting their focus to more vulnerable targets amid a Bitcoin bear market

Evening Standard

Commentary: What Croatia’s transition to the euro can teach us about the upside-down world of bitcoin

The transition of Croatia into the euro currency zone these days can teach us a lot about bitcoin in the U.S. According to the ideology of bitcoinism, the citizens of Croatia are making a huge mistake in obeying this transition and abandoning their legacy currency, the kuna. According to bitcoinism,…

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The Times of India

Bitcoin extends its longest winning streak since Covid days

A prolonged rally in Bitcoin is giving crypto enthusiasts a smidgen of something to be happy about during a dark period for the industry.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: We should celebrate, not bemoan, the swift collapse of FTX

If indeed all the reports are true— that the cryptocurrency exchange FTX lent out billions of dollars in customer deposits for risky bets without their consent — then the world should celebrate its swift demise. Markets are ruthless in rewarding success and punishing failure. And FTX’s fall from grace over…

Evening Standard

Coinbase lays off almost 1,000 staff as crypto winter bites

The move is the latest in a string of successive job cuts at the firm as it seeks to weather turmoil in the crypto markets

Fortune

'A fraud and a bubble are two different things': Crypto is shocking to a financial historian who literally wrote the book on financial bubbles

Financial historian William Quinn says crypto is either the smartest “Ponzi” or the stupidest “bubble” in history: “And the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.”

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Evening Standard

Crypto trading app Tap Global among London’s first public listings in 2023

Tap’s founders are hopeful for its prospects despite the turbulence in the crypto industry

ABC News

Customers claim they were lured into foreign exchange trading and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars

Former customers of an Australian company claim they were lured into the high-risk world of foreign exchange trading under false pretences and subjected to high-pressure sales tactics which contributed to them losing huge sums.

Fortune

Bitcoin or gold? Beware the ‘malignant tumor,’ says ‘Black Swan’ guru Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Technology comes and goes, gold stays, at least physically. Once neglected for a brief period, Bitcoin would necessarily collapse.”

Fortune

The ‘everything bubble’ has popped and the experts on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley were spectacularly wrong about a ton of things

Morgan Stanley analysts were sure Carvana stock would hit $430 a share and the crypto faithful believed Bitcoin would top $1 million.

Fortune

Why the environmentalist critics of data centers are wrong

There is no path to lower carbon output that doesn’t depend heavily on adding more information technology to our infrastructure, writes EY's blockchain leader Paul Brody.

Fortune

The Winklevoss twins are in another mess—and it has to do with crypto

“The idea in your head that you can quietly hide in your ivory tower and that this will all just magically go away, or that this is someone else’s problem, is pure fantasy,” Cameron Winklevoss wrote to former friend Barry Silbert.

Fortune

Crypto took such a beating in 2022 that U.S. regulators have teamed up for the first time to sound the alarm to banks

Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have all invested in crypto staffing divisions in recent years.

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