Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures at the Bitcoin 2024 event in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., July 27, 2024. Kevin Wurm | Reuters With the levers of power in Washington, D.C., about to change hands, a raft of pro-crypto legislation is expected from Congress and the Trump administration. To date, there’s been […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new measure on Friday that could protect your Robux from scammers and hackers. The proposed rule would interpret terms in the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, or EFTA, which has traditionally been used to protect consumers from unauthorized debit transactions, to include some virtual currencies supplied by gaming and […]
For all the goofiness, memecoin fever has been embraced by some corners of the crypto industry. In search of outsize returns, a small number of hedge funds have invested in memecoins this year. Other investment firms, like Pantera Capital, consider memecoins to be a “Trojan horse” likely to introduce new people to crypto. The idea, […]
Representations of cryptocurrency Bitcoin are seen in this illustration taken November 25, 2024. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Cryptocurrencies rose to start the year, rebounding from recent losses as investor optimism returned to the market. The price of bitcoin rose 3% to $97,426.02 Thursday, bringing its new year gain to about 4% when counting trading from the […]
Bitcoin – Photo Illustration by Omar Marques SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images As 2025 begins, bitcoin’s price will be a key focus for investors and analysts. Following a strong rise in 2024, where bitcoin broke through a $100,000, experts are forecasting its potential value by the end of 2025. Predictions vary, with estimates ranging from […]
Bitcoin was far and away the best-performing asset class in 2024 as new exchange-traded funds ushered in more widespread adoption and hopes for deregulation under a new presidential administration lifted digital assets to record levels. But owning cryptocurrency also came with its usual unpredictability and dizzying swings, as this month’s trading clearly illustrates. Bitcoin has […]
As the ransomware industry evolves, experts are predicting hackers will only continue to find more and more ways of using the technology to exploit businesses and individuals. Seksan Mongkhonkhamsao | Moment | Getty Images Ransomware is now a billion-dollar industry. But it wasn’t always that large — nor was it the prevalent cybersecurity risk it […]
For its entire existence as a global medium, the internet’s evolution has been caught in a tug of war, pulled by opposing forces: on one side, moderation and control; on the other, disruption and anarchy. This year, the most prominent actors weighing in on the side of disruption were familiar faces: The reckless oligarchs, cybercriminals, […]
Australian computer scientist Craig Wright arrives at the High Court in London on February 5, 2024. … [+] A court case starting in London will seek to determine whether Wright invented bitcoin, the world’s first and biggest cryptocurrency. Wright says he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of bitcoin’s creator and author of a white paper […]
Craig Wright, the computer scientist ruled to have lied “extensively and repeatedly” about being the inventor of Bitcoin, has been given a one-year prison sentence by a UK judge after being found in contempt of court. The sentence is suspended for two years, meaning that Wright will only face prison if he reoffends during that […]
