Big Day for Crypto Goes South After Bybit Hack

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The good news for cryptocurrency investors arrived just after 8 a.m. on Friday: Coinbase, the largest crypto marketplace in the United States, had reached a deal with U.S. regulators to dismiss a lawsuit that had hung over the industry for years. But within hours, the crypto market descended into a new crisis. At 10:51 a.m., […]


Crypto, Trump, GOP leadershipo gang up on FDIC over debanking

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A US Postal Service worker outside a Signature Bank branch in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley wants everyone to know what happened to his crypto company in 2023 during the Biden administration. “Our story is pretty […]


Crypto scams thrive in 2024 on back of ‘pig butchering’ and AI: Report

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Chainalysis said that crypto wallets linked to scams received $9.9 billion in cryptocurrency in 2024, according to its initial estimates Boonchai Wedmakawand | Moment | Getty Images Crypto fraud revenue is estimated to have hit record levels last year amid a surge in so-called romance scams as cybercriminals leverage artificial intelligence and become more organized, […]


Early Crypto Traders Had Speedy Profit on Trump Coin as Others Suffered Losses

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The curious trade came a little past 9 p.m. on Jan. 17 — a $1,096,109 bet less than two minutes after the soon-to-be president of the United States posted on his social media account that his family had issued a cryptocurrency called $Trump. In those first minutes, a crypto wallet with a unique identification code […]


Crypto gets quick return on Trump investment after funding campaign

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FRANCE – 2025/01/20: In this photo illustration, Trump Meme , Trump the Crypto president, is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Romain Doucelin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Romain Doucelin | Getty Images Crypto executives, companies and investors are getting an early return on their investment in Donald Trump. After pouring tens of […]


Bitcoin slips, Trump token plunges over 20% as crypto market cools

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A cartoon image of US President-elect Donald Trump with cryptocurrency tokens, depicted in front of the White House to mark his inauguration, displayed at a Coinhero store in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.  Paul Yeung | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies sank on Tuesday, as bullish investor sentiment surrounding […]


Trump Will Take Office as a Crypto Billionaire

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The Trump family’s new crypto tokens are worth well over $10 billion on paper, after a frenzied rally pushed up the value of the digital assets in the days before the inauguration. The so-called memecoins got another boost on Monday when Robinhood, the trading platform that made a big donation to Mr. Trump’s inauguration fund, […]


Bitcoin gains as Trump reportedly plans crypto executive order

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Bitcoin rejoined the crypto rally on Friday amid reports that President-elect Donald Trump could soon release an executive order making crypto a national priority. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by more than 4% at $104,672.37, according to Coin Metrics. The broader crypto market, as measured by the CoinDesk 20 index, was […]


AI, crypto top tech stocks: AppLovin, MicroStrategy, Palantir, Nvidia

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Corp., holds up the company’s AI accelerator chips for data centers as he speaks during the Nvidia AI Summit Japan in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024. Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence is still an abstract concept for many everyday consumers unsure about how it […]


Trump says venture capitalist David Sacks will be AI and crypto ‘czar’

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Zenefits CEO David Sacks speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Calif. Paul Chinn | San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Venture investor and podcaster David Sacks will join the Trump administration as the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar,” President-elect Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Thursday. Sacks […]