Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Bitcoin

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.

The Times of India

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…

Tribune News Service

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

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

'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.”

Fortune

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

Evening Standard

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.

ABC News

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

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

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.

Fortune

Will 2023 bring more crypto bankruptcies to weed out ‘the pumps and the frauds’?

The crypto industry had a rough go of it in 2022, with crashing cryptocurrency prices and a series of catastrophic bankruptcies.

Tribune News Service

Cameron Winklevoss gives crypto baron one week to come up with a $1 billion solution to make his Gemini customers whole

Winklevoss and his identical twin brother first rose to prominence through their lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, who they claimed stole their idea for Facebook.

Fortune

Romantic Getaway review – Katherine Ryan and Romesh Ranganathan are brilliant in IVF heist caper

This romcom/thriller about a couple who steal from their work sees its two leads – and Johnny Vegas as their boss – form a killer trio. Expect daft fun

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Fortune

The Crypto Winter will last through 2023 and maybe 2024, predicts PayPal and Meta alum David Marcus

“We won’t exit this 'crypto winter’ in 2023, and probably not in 2024 either,” Marcus wrote in a year-end blog post.

The Times of India

'Bitcoin at $200,000' projections flop as coin ends year down 60%

A year ago, crypto analysts, riding high from the successes of 2021, had big hopes for Bitcoin, with some of them seeing the token hitting $100,000 or more in 2022.

The Independent UK

Pain, few gains for investors as markets slumped in 2022

Investors found few, if any, places to safely put their money in 2022, as central banks in the U.S. and around the globe raised interest rates for the first time in years to fight surging inflation, stoking fear of a global recession

Reason

Libertarian Radio Host Ian Freeman Convicted for Helping People Buy Bitcoin

Freeman, an early adopter of the virtual currency, gets slammed by a state that can't tolerate any use of money without its permission and knowledge.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Fortune

Lose money on crypto in 2022? Tap this tax loophole while you still can.

It's still possible for big companies—but also individual crypto owners—to take advantage of special tax treatment for Bitcoin and other digital assets.

Fortune

The year in bankruptcy isn't just an FTX story. What's next could be even bigger.

The number of bankruptcies actually declined in 2022, but the amount of debt swimming through court is higher. And yes, FTX (likely) leads the pack.

WEKU

2022 was the year crypto came crashing down to Earth

For the world of crypto, 2022 started with exuberance and ended with its unofficial spokesman in handcuffs.

Evening Standard

London crypto firm Argo sells Bitcoin mine to Galaxy Digital to shore up finances

London-based crypto firm Argo has agreed to sell its Bitcoin mining facilities to New York-based Galaxy Digital as part of a $100 million deal to shore up its shaky finances.

Fortune

Stocks and Bitcoin may be down, but gold prices just hit a six-month high above $1,800

2023 could provide "Goldilocks conditions" for gold after the inflation hedge outperformed risky assets this year, analysts say.

Axios

Crypto will survive FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried

Today, there are people all over the world committed to cryptocurrency's endurance.

Fortune

Crypto's very bad year yielded even worse falls from grace. Here's a list.

Some of the industry’s biggest names fell from historic highs historically quickly.

1 … 282 283 284 285

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations