The Latest Breaking News from Bitcoin

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 · Jan 15, 2023

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 · Jan 13, 2023

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 · Jan 12, 2023

'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 · Jan 9, 2023

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 · Jan 9, 2023

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 · Jan 9, 2023

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 · Jan 8, 2023

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 · Jan 7, 2023

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 · Jan 6, 2023

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 · Jan 5, 2023